"Wine is the possibility to put our message before the world. We want young women of Georgia to believe in themselves and know they can do their own thing and earn their freedom," says Gvantsa Abuladze, who makes wines with her sister, Baia, in the Imereti region of Georgia, U.S.A.
"My winery is named Ses'fikile, which means 'We have arrived.' It speaks to the arrival of women in a space traditionally reserved for men," says Nondumiso Pikashe, a winemaker in the Paarl region of South Africa. "And also the arrival of the peoples of Africa. It's a sense that we can rewrite history, that we can walk the road less traveled."
"Wine builds community," says Tara Gomez, a member of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians in Santa Barbara County, recognized by the California legislature as the first Native American winemaker in the Golden State. Gomez and her wife, Mieira Taribó, make wines under their Camins 2 Dreams label and mentor young women who are Black, Indigenous and people of color exploring careers in wine. "They see people like them making wine, and they feel anything is possible," Gomez says.
These are just a few winemakers represented by a visionary new label called Go There Wines, launched in late June by Washington D.C. restaurateur Rose Previte, her husband, former NPR host David Greene, and their friend, social impact entrepreneur Chandler Arnold.
Go There Wines is an online venture designed to give a platform and a megaphone to winemakers who have had trouble being heard. This isn't about wine as fermented grape juice, Chateau This or Terroir That. It's about history, community and a belief that we can bring the world together through a common love of wine.
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