Mike Ratcliffe Wine Business Advisors

Mike Ratcliffe Wine Business Advisors is rated 3 out of 5 in the category wine and spirits. Read and write reviews about Mike Ratcliffe Wine Business Advisors. Innovative & unexpected, cutting-edge business advice to maximise the profit of your wine business. Mike Ratcliffe has a broad palette of experience. Mike was long-standing Managing Director of respected 1.4 million bottle Warwick Wine Estate for the best part of two decades before selling to Californian Silicon Valley company Eileses Capital. Co-founder and Managing Partner of joint US/South African venture Vilafonté since 2001. Mike has been nominated for the Wine Star Award for Global Innovator of the Year in 2015 and then again in 2017. Vilafonté is the only winery in the world to be twice nominated for New World Winery of the Year. ​Mike was appointed Chairman of the Stellenbosch Wine Routes in 2018 and Chairman of Visit Stellenbosch in 2019. Mike was a founding Trustee of the Cape Wine Auction raising R105 million for local charities. He graduated in the first wine marketing class at Adelaide University in Australia and is a sought-after public speaker, industry commentator, respected social media personality and marketing trendsetter.