It has been amazing to watch the shift in wine news coverage in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement. Quite suddenly, there has been a marked increase in visibility for black-owned wineries and BIPOC wine professionals in the industry. Such coverage is overdue, and even with this increase in coverage, there’s a lot of work to be done to ensure balance and diversity in wine media representation.
I have found myself frequently frustrated, though, in looking at the coverage of black-owned wineries, because the articles that highlight them are all some variation of “Ten Black-Owned Wineries You Need to Know” or “8 Black-Owned Wines to Fall In Love With Right Now” when there are quite literally hundreds of them around the world.
Now I know we live in the era of sound-bite journalism, and no editor of Vogue is going to let one of their writers list 150 wineries in an article about black vintners, but it seems a shame that all most people can muster is a handful of names.
The membership rolls of the African American Vintners Society themselves fall short in cataloging the full extent of black-owned wineries in America. Gabrielle Nicole Pharms, writing for Oprah Online, made a valiant attempt to make an extensive list, as have others, but as far as I can tell, they are all missing a lot of wineries.
So, in conjunction with Black History Month, I’m setting out here to make the most definitive list of black-owned wineries on the Internet. I’m sure my list is incomplete as well, but with your help and suggestions, maybe I can get it closer. Please use the comments below or the contact form to let me know who I might be missing.
If that photo up top seems familiar, there’s a reason for it.
American Black-Owned Wineries
California
Sonoma
Ashanta Wines
Ashton Vineyards
Bodkin Wines
Corner 103
Fog Crest Vineyard
Jupiter Wine Company
Kala Winery
L’Objet Wines
Tympany Vineyards
Vision Cellars
Ward Four Wines
Napa
Angwin Estate Vineyards
Le Artishasic & Decathlon
Brown Estate
Darjean Jones Wines
Domaine Curry
Flowers Family Vineyard
Housley Napa Valley
Intercept Wines
J Moss Wines
Le Loup Gris
LVE Wines
Mela Vino
Okapi Wines
Sapere
Sosabe Cellars
The Smith Wines
The Vice Wine
Wade Cellars
Bay Area
Amoy Wines
Ayaba Wines
Bass Notes Sangria
Black Excellence Wine Co.
Earl Stevens Selections
ENAT Winery
Free Range Flower Winery
P. Harrell Wines
The Pour Up
Wachira Wines
McBride Sisters Collection
Mendocino County
Thomas T Thomas Vineyards (Anderson Valley)
Theopolis Vineyards (Yorkville Highlands)
Central Coast
McClain Cellars
Michael Rose Cellars
Oceano Wines
Seatpocket Wines
Paso Robles
Charles Woodson Intercept
Eighty-One
Indigené Cellars
Sierra Foothills
Mellowood Vineyard
Stover Oaks Vineyard & Winery
Lodi
Alexis George
Generational Wealth Wines
JSL Wines
Taste Collection Cellars
Central Valley
23 Wines
Baker Family Wines
Bump City Wine Co.
Center Cork Wines
FLO Wine
Matt Crutchfield Wines
Los Angeles
Braymar Wines
Charles Wine Company
Sasy Wines
Uncorqued Selections
Livermore
Santa Barbara
San Diego
Altapiano Vineyard
Amber Vista Wines
Sipwell
Temecula
Oregon
Abbey Creek Vineyard
Dirty Radish
Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein Winery
Hemmer Vineyards
Maison Noir Wines
McCollum Heritage 91
Meadows Estate Vineyard & Winery
Mermosa
Stoney Wines
Washington
Chosen Family Wines
Dossier Wine
Frichette Winery
Lashelle Winery
T. Crawford Wine Cellar
Texas
Blount Wine Therapy
Cheramie Wine
Dotson-Cervantes Wines
The Guilty Grape
KFire Winery & Vineyard
Kai Simone
Wondry Wine
New York
Esrever Wines
Geselle Wine
Gotham Winery
MYX Fusions
Quartz Rock Vineyard
Sapiens
Simply Love Wines
Six19 Black
Arizona
Coronado Vineyards
Wine Spencer
Colorado
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Curvy Betty Wines
LELIYG
Tilford Winery
Illinois
Love Cork Screw Wines
Twenty Ten Wines
Davine Wines
Michael Lavelle Wines
Indiana
Cultured Urban Winery
Sip and Share Wines
Kansas
Louisiana
Maryland
Boyd Cru Wines
Philosophy Winery
Michigan
Black Fire Winery
Drew Ryan Wines
Jubilee Wine
Opulence Wine
The Roché Collection
New Jersey
North Carolina
Davidson Wine Co.
Ebony Wine and Spirits
Melanated Wine
Seven Springs Farm & Vineyard
Shoe Crazy Wine
Ohio
Autumn Rush Vineyard
Markell-Bani
Pennsylvania
Cyrenity Sips Winery
Mark & Val Wines
Mitchell & Mitchell Wines
South Carolina
Vermont
Kalchē Wine Cooperative
Zafa Wines
Virginia
Delaplane Cellars
Fifty Leven
Sweet Vines Farm
South African Black-Owned Wineries
Adama
Amile Wines
Anazi Wines
Aslina
Bayede
Birthmark of Africa
Blouvlei
Bonnievale Wines
Brothers in Vines
Brunia Wines
Botébo Wines
Buya Wine
Cape Dreams/Croft Sales
Carmen Stevens Wines
CJ Family Wines
Compagniesdrift
De Ladegourdie Wines
Delisa Wines
Dzimbahwe Wines
Epicurean Wine
Fairvalley
HER Wine Collection
House of Mandela
J9 Wines
Jan Harmsgat
Kara Tara Wines
Khayelitsha’s Finest Wines
Klein Goederust
Koni Wines/Konempire
Koopmanskloof
Kumusha Wines
La Ric Mal
Land of Hope
Lathithá Wines
Lelie van Saron
Libby’s Pride
LN Wines
Liz Ogumbo Wines
Magna Carta Wines
Mama Afrika
Mayime Winery
M’hudi Wines
Mosi Wine & Spirits
Nomoya Wines
PaardenKloof
Randela Wine
Ses’Fikile
Seven Sisters Vineyards
Silk Bush
Siwela Wines
SJ Wines
Small Scale Vineyards
Solms-Delta
Son of the Soil Wines
Somerbosch Wines
Tembela Wines
Tesselaarsdal Wines
Thembi & Co Wines
The Township Winery
The Bridge of Hope Wines
Thokozani
Truevines Wines/Shumayela Holdings
Tumbaga Fine Wines
Women in Wine
Other Global Black-Owned Wineries
Nyarai Cellars (Canada)
Armand de Brignac (France)
Cheurlin Champagne (France)
Domaine du Pourra (France)
La Dona Tigana (France)
La Fête du Rosé (France)
Lapin Rouillé Champagne (France/USA)
Chateau La Mascaronne (France)
Marie Cesaire (France)
Porte Noire Champagne (France/UK)
Stuyvesant Champagne (France/USA)
Edelheiss Wines (Germany)
Weingut Günther Steinmetz (Germany)
Amour Genève (Italy)
Lyons Wine (Italy)
Licataa Wines (Italy)
Wifey Brands (Italy)
El Vino (Mexico)
Whinyard Rocks (UK)
Leleshwa (Keyna)
Saikeri Estate (Kenya)
Erongo Mountain Winery (Namibia)
Alko Vintages (Tanzania)
Dane Wines (Tanzania)
Central Tanzanian Wine Co. – CETAWICO (Tanzania)
Tan Port Wine / Robert Paul Winery (Tanzania)
KokuTuty Estate Winery (Tanzania)
Tully’s Wine (Tanzania)
King’s Wine (Tanzania)
