Visitors to Bertony Faustin’s vineyard assume he just works there but African Americans are not only increasingly consumers of fine wine but producers Bertony Faustin didn’t set out to be Oregon’s first black winemaker. He just wanted to do good wine. What he hadn’t anticipated was the disbelief that often comes when customers realise a black man owns the vineyard.People are always surprised. Everybody assumes that ... I am not the winemaker,” said the 43-year-old, who opened Abbey Creek vineyard four years ago. The image of the winemaker is an old white guy.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com