Empowering The Diner Through Wine: What You Want, Baby We Got It

Empowering the Diner is a Black women-led food and beverage event centered on collaboration and inclusion in which they bring folx together to discuss, learn, and explore their palate and dining experiences. Empowering the Diner seeks to dismantle colonizer-led perspectives and gatekeeping practices by challenging the status quo through creative, multi-faceted, and BIPOC-led educational and hospitable experiences. The first educational experience will be: Empowering The Diner Through Wine. This will be offered on a virtual platform called Hopin. Empowering the Diner Through Wine will be a four-week experience. This offering will be conducted in four sessions. Each session will include one full bottle of wine, a pairing BIPOC chef's recipe, and feature educational dialogue with a BIPOC wine professional. The first session will focus on the basics of wine as an agricultural product. You will dismantle colonizer-lead tasting notes together and learn how to let your palate inform your tasting notes. You will also begin to discuss how your palates inform you about what you like and prefer in wine and how to discuss that with a salesperson/somm/server. Speaker will be Amanda Carpenter & guest chef LaGina Lewis. $55 for this session only, or $110 for an all-access pass to all four sessions ($80 for BIPOC). Taught on Friday, May 21st, at 8:30 p.m. EST. For more information or to register, please click here.