Ron Rubin, Sonoma County Vintner at Ron Rubin Winery (Sebastopol, USA)

Ron Rubin, Sonoma County Vintner at Ron Rubin Winery (Sebastopol, USA)

Cathy Huyghe
Entrepreneur, Winemaker

Years in Industry:
My journey began in 1971 studying viticulture and enology at UC Davis, California. For the next 22 years, I worked for my family-owned and operated Central Wholesale Liquor Co., in Mount Vernon, Illinois. (It was sold in 1994.) At that time, I defected to “Specialty TEA” with the purchase of The Republic of Tea, a Novato, California-based family business. In 2011, my dream that I held close to my heart for 40 years (from 1971 to 2011) came true with the purchase of River Road Vineyards and Winery located in Green Valley of Russian River Valley, where today’s journey is producing exceptional wines at a great value in Sonoma County, California.

My Biggest Challenge to Wellness:
SIMPLE. Trying to convince other California winery owners to invest in training of CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation), AED (Automated External Defibrillator) and First Aid. So far, 242 California wineries are now “Trained for Saving Lives” with over 1,300 newly trained staff members and owners ready to take action, if and when necessary. We still have 200 AED’s to give away to qualified California wineries, so contact me on 314.726.9630 or Ron@ronrubinwinery.com for more details.

How I Keep It Together to Stay Well:
I have an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator placed in my chest to reduce the risk of dying if my heart goes into a dangerous rhythm. The ICD will deliver an electric shock to restore me to a normal heartbeat. (It worked! five times already.) I am blessed.

Cathy Huyghe
Entrepreneur, Winemaker
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Cathy Huyghe

Cathy Huyghe is a dynamic media professional with a special interest in wine and the spirit of hospitality. She is also an effective, engaging public speaker on subjects ranging from wine and gastronomy to digital media and entrepreneurship.

Cathy is the co-founder and CEO of Enolytics, a big data startup providing business intelligence for the wine industry. She also currently writes for Forbes.com about the business and politics of the wine industry, and for Inc.com about entrepreneurs with a special focus on women. She is the author of the award-winning book Hungry for Wine: Seeing the World through the Lens of a Wine Glass; she was a finalist for the 2016 IWSC Wine Communicator of the Year award; and she won the 2016 Innovator of the Year award from Diaz Communications.

Cathy's writing has appeared in print and online for both general-interest and wine industry publications including the Harvard Business Review network, The Atlantic, Decanter, Food52.com (where she was the "Wine, Unfussed" columnist), DailyBeast, The Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Wine Enthusiast, GlobalPost, Grist.org, and Daily Candy. She has also been featured on the BBC, WNYC, WGBH, and Nevada Public Radio.

Cathy is the founder of 365daysofwine.com and Red White Boston, a digital media company for the wine industry. Red White Boston produced daily content, monthly tasting events, and a location-based iPhone app of video wine recommendations from their network of 30+ local partner stores. While in Boston, she also managed the wine cellar at WGBH public broadcasting station and managed wine events for donors and the public.

Cathy’s restaurant experience started when she knocked on the kitchen door at Chez Panisse in Berkeley. She also has worked for Jean-Pierre Vigato in Paris (at Natachef bistro and at his two-star restaurant, Apicius) and for Thomas Keller at Bouchon in Las Vegas. She studied at La Varenne École de Cuisine in Burgundy, France; she completed the Wine Studies program at Boston University; and she received Advanced Certification from WSET (Wine and Spirits Education Trust). 

Cathy received a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard in 2004 and a second master’s degree in Journalism in 2010, also from Harvard. Before that, she received a master’s degree in comparative literature from the City University of New York in 1998 and a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in 1995. She is also a trained mediator, and worked for two years at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School on a project in the Middle East.

In April 2008 she founded the Harvard Alumni in Wine and Food special interest group, which provides educational and networking services to the Harvard alumni and current students. She has also served as the President of the Harvard Club of Georgia, and she has begun a term of service on the Board of Directors for the Harvard Alumni Association.

Her other non-profit involvement includes the Women's Solidarity Society at the new National Center for Civil & Human Rights (Atlanta), grant reviewer for the Food Well Alliance (an Atlanta-based organization that supports the local network of 350 urban farms and community gardens), Coach at GOTR (Girls on the Run) in Atlanta, Board Member at the Greening Youth Foundation (Atlanta), Board Member at The Food Project (Boston), and Mediator at the Neighborhood Justice Center (Las Vegas).

She lives in Atlanta with her husband, their twin boys, and their Bernese Mountain dog, Coco.

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