Kirsten Grant Meikle is the great-great-granddaughter of our founder William Grant, and the fifth pioneering generation of the family to run our business since 1887. She is currently Director of Prestige at William Grant & Sons UK.
Born in Edinburgh in 1975, she knew early on that her future lay in the drinks industry. After studying Business at Napier University, and travelling the world for 14 months (and doing the odd stint of bar work to pay her way), she entered the on-trade in the UK.
While spending two years as Bar Manager of Ecco Vino, an Edinburgh bar famous for its wine selection, she fell under the spell of fine wine. It led her to Matthew Clark, a renowned UK drinks distributer, where her passion for the business, sheer dynamism and inexhaustible work ethic saw her go from Account Manager to Wine Controller in seven years.
