Isabelle Legeron Named One of Wine World’s Most Powerful Women
Posted by Organic Wine Journal on Dec 6, 2012 in Features
The Drinks Business named Isabelle Legeron, founder of London’s Natural Wine Fair and RAW, one of the wine world’s most powerful women. But, as Meg Houston Maker pointed out on Facebook, what’s up with the illustration they chose for the article?
A hearty congratulations to Isabelle! I’m happy to report that in response to public outcry, The Drinks Business took down the insulting initial illustration, which can best be described as a stripper silhouette posing under a wine glass. The first replacement was another silhouette of a woman—this one evidently in a nightie—but that didn’t fly with the community, either. So the article now sports a stock art shot of grapes, and while it’s not perfect, either, at least now readers might be able to focus on the article’s true content: profiles of accomplished winemakers.
@OWJ As much as I love Isabelle, another famous French female with greater influence perhaps on global wine right now: Christine Lagarde
Perhaps she is further down on their list… they only released 50-41 to begin with.