Robin Kick MW is a judge at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
Robin Kick MW
Originally from the Chicago area, Robin Kick MW currently lives in Lugano, Switzerland where she works as a freelance buying/export consultant, wine judge, educator and journalist.
After obtaining two Masters of Arts degrees in French and linguistics, she began teaching at the Université de Nice but changed career paths in 1998 after completing a professional course (“Sommelier Conseil”) at the esteemed Université du Vin de Suze-la-Rousse in France’s Rhône Valley.
She launched her wine career in 1999 as a fine wine specialist at Christie’s auction house in Beverly Hills, California, where she procured, negotiated, estimated and authenticated wine collections as well as educated on wine collection strategies. During this time, she continued her wine studies through the WSET, local wine courses and by extensively tasting through private cellars.
A move to London in 2003 led to roles as marketing manager for Fine and Rare Wine Ltd., one of the country’s top wine brokers, as well as wine buyer for Goedhuis & Co., an award-winning fine wine merchant, renowned for its Burgundy and Bordeaux list.
While in London, she studied at the Institute of Masters of Wine, graduating in 2014 following the successful completion of her dissertation, “An Investigation of Whole Cluster Fermentation in Pinot Noir in the Côte d’Or”, which featured ground-breaking, original research and is still a point of reference across the wine world.
Over the years, she was inducted as a Chevalier of the Confrérie des Chevaliers de Tastevin at the Château du Clos de Vougeot and a Dame Chevalier for the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne.
Today, she regularly consults for wine importers on their portfolios, contributes wine articles to Decanter Magazine and the ‘Corriere del Ticino’, Ticino’s largest newspaper; collaborates with The Wine Scholar Guild for their Bourgogne Master-Level Program while guiding tours to the region for their students; teaches WSET courses at the Château de Pommard as well as carries out bespoke tastings for both wineries and collectors.
When she is not in Switzerland, she spends much of her time in the Côte d’Or or travelling and tasting through many of Italy’s wine regions.
