[dropcap size=big]F[/dropcap]ollowing the police killing of George Floyd and subsequent nationwide outcry at police brutality against Black men in the United States, people were asked to do whatever possible in their personal lives and professional spheres to combat systemic racism in the United States.
For John Himmelstein and D’nell Larson, the owners/partners of Silver Lake's Gingergrass, that takes the form of opening a new outdoor beer-and-wine tent in the parking lot of their 16-year-old Vietnamese restaurant that exclusively features Black winemakers and Black brewers.
“We were trying to figure out a way of doing something sustainable to support Black businesses,” Larson says of the moment last spring when she and Himmelstein decided to redirect their buying power towards Black business owners as a means of backing them.
Brown Estate/House of Brown Chardonnay