California Bubbly

Jen Pelka is the Co-Founder and CEO of Une Femme Wines, the fastest growing sparkling wine brand in the US. Jen was formerly the founder of The Riddler, the all-women-funded pair of Champagne bars in San Francisco and New York, where she served tens of thousands of bottles of Champagne to sparkling wine lovers on both coasts.

While there, she realized that every time they put a woman-made wine on the list, it would outsell all others. She wondered why there wasn’t a modern sparkling wine brand for “women like us” — so she built it. Prior to founding The Riddler, Jen founded and ran Magnum PR, an SF-based communications and marketing agency specializing in food, wine, and hospitality brands.

She also held roles at Gilt Groupe, OpenTable, Tumblr, and others. She earned her BA in the Philosophy of Science from Stanford University. She is based in Sonoma, CA with her husband, Charles, and their dog, Pita.