'Representation totally matters': Tri-Cities
winemaker shares lack of diversity in
the industry
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/21/2022 8:12:05 PM
Benton City, Wash.—Washington produces the second-highest amount of wine in the country, just behind California. But despite the vast number of winemakers in our region, very few are owned by women or people of color. It’s something Shae Frichette, with Frichette Winery in Benton City knows all too well.(Snip)“When I first came into wine, I didn't see any Black female winemakers and so I just didn't see that represented so I really had to figure out my place in wine,” Frichette said. According to the Washington Wine Association, there are just over a thousand licensed wineries in the state. Just three of them are black-owned.
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Does everything have to come down to race? Guess so, never mind that her husband is White and it's probably really easy to get big set-aside loans when your business is headed up by a black woman. Meanwhile, the brothers be askin' if you can add jolly ranchers, skittles, and codeine cough syrup all up in dat.