Wednesday, 21 February, 2018
Wine Enthusiast, Layla Schlack
The event was organized by Benita Johnson, a member of the Guild of Sommeliers, founder of The Vine Wine Club and a booster of wine in general. She hopes that the symposium will become an annual event.
Johnson said that the symposium “started with a Facebook group.” She is also the creator of the Exclusive Blacklist, a weekend-long series of wine-and-food events celebrating African-American winemakers and chefs in the area, now in its fourth year.
Virginia’s Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, Bettina Ring, opened the symposium by noting the state is the nation’s fifth largest wine producing state, “but I’m hoping one day we’ll be up there with California, at number one or two.”
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