Plus As African Fusion Restaurants Continue To Emerge On The High Street There Are More New Great Champagne & Wine Discoveries To Be Made Featuring African And Caribbean Producers Across The Globe.
Plus As African Fusion Restaurants Continue To Emerge On The High Street There Are More New Great Champagne & Wine Discoveries To Be Made.
Legacy And Inheritence Is Very Important In The Wine Business. Succession Plans Need To Be Considered In Order To Avoid Vines Produced From Decades of Hard Work Are Not Going To Be Left To Wither.
The Son of A Confederate Slave-Owner Who Inherited His Father’s Land Made No Such Plans And Alas, Tragically His Virginian Vineyard, Woburn Winery, Did Not Live On.
After Prohibition Ended In 1933 John Rune Lewis Snr (1894-1974). Inherited The Land And Grew Lambrusco And Other Grapes On The Land, Having Learnt About Wine-Making Having From His Father And Developed During The War When Stationed In Germany’s Rhine Valley American Occupied The Area.
He Died Aged 80. But The Winery Did Not Survive To Extend The Family Legacy. Notwithstanding It Was In The Hands of His Son Momentarily. But At Least He Made History In The First Instance.
The American Civil War Raged 1861 – 1865 [Centred Around The Issue of Slavery And The Confederates And The Unionists]; After Which Republican President Lincoln Declared Emancipation of The Slaves. In June 1865. Hence Juneteenth Celebrations Since. The Unionists Had Been Triumphant.
The The American Homestead Act 1862 Gifted 160 Acre Plots of Public Land Exclusively To White Citizens, Whilst Slavery Was Still In Operation.
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only 1% of america’s wine producers are black.
The Act Was Repealed In 1976 By Which Time 1.6 Million People Had Received 270 Million Acres of Land. The Consequence Lingers On. 2002 Statistics From (AFGVS) The Agriculture, Food And Human Values Society (Pennsylvania) Reportedly Highlighted That Caucasians Subsequently Owned 98% of American Agricultural Private Land. Coravin
The European Story of Colonialism Is Also One of Land Grabs. Vineyards Demand Land. Hence Black Wine Producers Are Thin On The Ground.
Although America Has Defined What Constitutes A Foreign Terrorist Group, They Have Not Always Been As Exacting Regarding What Constitutes A Domestic Terrorist Group. So Even The KKK Are Recognized By Civil Rights Organizations And Social Justice Groups They Are Currently Not Officially Defined As Such Specifically, Federally. But They Are Nonetheless Prosecutable Under Homicide Laws And Criminal Law, Including Hate Crime Laws.
Notably The So-Called Public Land Was Commonly Originally Occupied By Native Americans. They Consequently Suffered Even More Displacement As A Result of The Act. The Original Objective of The Government Land Gifting Was To Encourage North American Expansion And Counter Big Southern Plantations Who Used Slave Labour.
Consequently, For Black Wine Producers To Overcome Those Odds And That History, They Have Had To Be Exceptional. For Some of Today’s Black Wine Producers See Our July 2026 Issue. Meantime You Can Follow TO.P @theorator.press.on.insta
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