Allen Meadows

Today

Wine expertise at Aquavit in New York, NY in 2023 sat alongside a long prior career in corporate strategy and finance. Allen Meadows first worked as senior-vice-president and director of corporate development at Great Western Financial, then as chief financial officer at Fidelity National. That background gave his public wine work an analytical frame: reading structure, making comparisons, and presenting with the confidence of someone used to executive responsibility. Since 2000, Burghound.com has carried that same approach online and remains the platform most closely associated with his name.

Career - founder — Burghound.com (2000–present) - senior vice-president and director of corporate development — Great Western Financial - chief financial officer — Fidelity National - wine event presenter / expert — Aquavit, New York, NY (2023)

Signature

Burghound.com is the signature work tied to Allen Meadows. The name reads less like branding than a point of view: focused, specific, and built around sustained wine criticism and commentary since 2000. In craft terms, it is the work that fixed Meadows’s place in public wine discourse.

Recognition

At Aquavit in New York, NY in 2023, Allen Meadows appeared as a wine expert and presenter at wine events. The setting matters: Aquavit frames wine as something to be explained as well as served, and that is where Meadows’s role landed. His recognition in that context reflects a public-facing practice built on interpretation, not just knowledge.

FAQ What is Allen Meadows's current role? As of 2026, Allen Meadows is Wine expert and presenter at wine events. Where did Allen Meadows work before? Allen Meadows's earlier career included Great Western Financial, Fidelity National, and Aquavit.