Santiago is a serial entrepreneur. His first venture, Vinopic Wines was an online retailer that was the world’s first to use science to rate and score wines for their intrinsic quality. It was while building this business that Santiago realised that the heavy, fragile and spatially inefficient glass wine bottles of the 19th century were completely unfit for purpose when packaging and shipping wines through complex supply chains. This experience led him to develop a 21st century wine bottle and launch Garçon Wines, which is now globally recognised for introducing eco, flat wine bottles. As CEO and lead co-founder, Santiago is advancing both the wine and packaging industries to be more sustainable through innovative, beautiful, flat bottles and game-changing transit packaging. This innovation not only offers triple bottom line sustainability through being eco-friendly, cost-effective and consumer pleasing but importantly leads the way in slashing the unnecessary emissions and grotesque carbon footprint of the industry to mitigate against the devastating and ongoing effects of the global climate crisis.
