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Ilya Zabolotnov is the founder of WineMarkets.co, a B2B SaaS business intelligence platform for wineries, wine importers, distributors, and trade bodies, currently based on the dataset of 3.7 million on-trade placements across 16 countries.

He holds WSET Level 4 Diploma in Wines and MTech in Telecommunications and is proficient in data science. He is currently based in Palo Alto, California.

Selected publications:

Understanding the US wine market: a brief guide to its structure, culture and practices — March 15, 2026 (WineMarkets.co)

The Colloidal Counter-Enlightenment. Why you should read Clark Smith’s Postmodern Winemaking — May 22, 2023

Practice and preach. How I ran a wine retail store in a Russian province for 5 years — March 26, 2023