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MAFFEO DRINKS: Built Bottom-up111 | Wine for Everyone: How Brodie Meah Took Top Cuvée from One Restaurant to Retail to National DistributionMerry Christmas & Happy 2026. This Episode is hosted by Chris Maffeo and brought to you by MAFFEO DRINKS. Brodie Meah, co-founder of Top Cuvée, reveals how one neighborhood restaurant in Highbury became the foundation for a "wine for everyone" movement that achieved national distribution.Starting in 2019 with 40 covers nightly, Top Cuvée's journey from restaurant to retail to wholesale exemplifies bottom-up brand building.Having witnessed fine dining's intimidation tactics firsthand in Melbourne, Brodie flipped the industry's most exclusive phrase:"top cuvée" (wines deemed too good for regular guests) into a symbol of a...
2025-11-1031 min
Building the Brands of TomorrowTop Cuvée- a brand built like a restaurant “What would a Michelin-starred restaurant do?”Applying service-level thinking to ecommerce and customer experienceBrodie Meah, co-founder of Top Cuvée, shares how a hospitality-first mindset became the foundation for a wine brand with real staying power. From fine dining in Melbourne to bike courier bottle drops in North London, we cover how community, consistency and a sense of humour helped shape the Top Cuvée story.
2025-09-1131 min
People Doing ThingsTop Cuvée - Brodie MeahSay hello to Brodie Meah, founder of Top Cuvée - London's top spot for new wines and a hallmark of the UK's progressive wine scene. Founded in January 2019 as a neighborhood wine bar and restaurant Top Cuvée has found numerous ways to express itself over the last six years. From their original restaurant in Highbury and wine shop around the corner to their underground wine bar Cave Cuvée in Shoreditch's Bethnal Green Road. They've also become famous for their house wines and vermouths as well as parkside delivery service, serving up the world's best wine...
2025-08-2138 min