“When we started [McBride Sisters Collection], we were young, we were women, and we were Black women,” Andréa McBride says. “So we didn’t look like what had traditionally been really successful in the wine industry.”
The McBride sisters’ path to business partnership wasn’t traditional either.
Half sisters who were raised as only children across the world from each other, both happened to grow up in wine regions: Andréa in New Zealand and Robin in Monterrey, California. They connected with the help of family members in 1999 after their father’s passing, and it wasn’t long before they discovered their shared passion for wine — and decided to follow it into business.
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