
Vincent O'Brien
Vincent O'Brien is managing director of Octavian, the UK-based fine wine storage specialist whose underground vaults in Wiltshire hold around £2bn of fine wine.
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Sep 10, 2026
EP. 8: How can you pay for wine and it still not be yours?
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45:57SarahHOST
And so what's your opinion on that?

Vincent O'BrienGUEST
I think one of the things that I feel is we need to educate the industry a lot more about storage.

Vincent O'BrienGUEST
But the one thing that has hit me from dealing with the Institute of Masters of Wine, dealing with merchants, that is how little they understand what we do and the, and how importantly, we're part of their process, they're part of ours.
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52:24SarahHOST
But it is,
Packaging challenges with Octavian: The fine wine storage perspective
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Vincent O'BrienGUEST
The bigger issue from all of this is there's no standardisation on what quality packaging we should have.

Vincent O'BrienGUEST
Some packaging would be fine if it's a quick maturing wine that's going to be drank fairly young and it's going to be through a warehouse and through a consumer in a very short order.

Vincent O'BrienGUEST
But I don't think there's enough differentiation within this sustainability argument about the different types of aging the wine and how long the wine can go on for.

Vincent O'BrienGUEST
The best way I can compare it to it's like having a paint job on your car that's not going to last the life cycle of the car.
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15:30Hannah HalmariHOST
Can you give us more of an overview of what that currently looks like and where you would like that to go?