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Toby Webb

Toby Webb

Founder of Innovation Forum and Sustainable Wine Roundtable; sustainability entrepreneur with 25+ years experience in supply chain sustainability and regenerative agriculture.

Jun 23, 2026

0:33
Why did we establish SWR? What were we setting out to do? And how has that evolved over time?
0:39
Well, thanks, Hannah.
0:40
Yes, it's been a fascinating journey over the last five years.
0:43
And some listeners might know that Sustainable Wine started out as a blog that I started writing about 15 years ago, mainly so I could have interesting conversations with winemakers in their cellars about climate change and then persuade them to open an old bottle or two, which worked incredibly well.
0:58
But after I'd done about 100 of them, It turned into a kind of media business doing some conferences and having a website about sustainability as a business element.
1:07
And that's something I've spent my career doing in other industries.
1:10
And then one day over lunch on a podcast, which is on the website, Richard Bamfield pointed out to me that there was nobody coordinating global sustainability work in wine.

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9:45
So just tell us a little bit more about that.

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