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Voted USA Today’s 2021 #1 Wine Festival in the Country & the Longest Standing Black Wine Festival in the Country, Black Vines® is California’s preeminent curator of Black wine experiences and special events.

Founded in 2011 by Berkeley, California native and retired Silicon Valley technology professional, Fern A. Stroud. Black Vines® hosts an annual winter celebration of culture, art, and wine education that brings together Black artists, Black musicians, and Black winemakers and vintners; a lighter fare outdoor summer soiree featuring sparkling, rosé, and sangria; and year-round custom events in partnership with key influencers and industry specialists.

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Black Vines event in Oakland toasts to 13 years celebrating Black winemakers

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The longest-standing Black wine festival in the country returns to Oakland for a 13th year with Black Vines 2024.

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Black Vines returns next Saturday for the 13th year

The founder of Black Vines joins us in-studio to talk about the 13th annual wine festival coming up on February 24th. The event highlights inclusivity and accessibility within the wine industry. The bottles of wines that are on display are all available to taste in various Bay Area tasting rooms. Watch to learn more about them and the event.

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Black Vines Wines Festival kicks off next Saturday

KRON4's Stephanie Lin spoke with the owner of JSL Winemaker Joseph Smith and the founder of Black Vines Fern Stroud about the upcoming Black Vines Festival.

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Life AfterTech

Life After Tech

Easy, no. Empowering, yes.

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Trailblazing Women: Winemaking sisters make history

Sisters Andréa and Robin McBride dominate the wine industry by building the country's largest Black-owned wine brand.

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ABC7 News — Celebrating A Toast to Black Wineries and Diverse Art

Celebrating Black Vines—A Toast to Black Wineries and Diverse Arrt

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Alaska Airlines is bringing Black Girl Magic to First Class with McBride Sisters wine

“Our goal is to introduce customers to west coast wines that they fall in love with and seek out after getting off the plane with us,” says Todd Traynor-Corey, Alaska’s managing director of guest products. “The partnership with the McBride Sisters and Black Vines may be amongst the first in the space, but it won’t be the last.”

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KTVU - Black Vines is a Festival of Wines

Black Vines is a festival of wines

Black Vines Founder, Fern Stroud and Raymond Smith, Indigence Cellars Winemaker stopped by to talk about the 12th annual wine event that takes place in Oakland!

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Forever Pioneer Podcast: Fern Stroud

In 2003 most Cal State East Bay students were wondering if Tupac Shakur was still alive. But our guest was getting ready to graduate and eventually move on to create community focused wine and entrepreneurial events. On this episode of the Forever Pioneer podcast we are chatting with the founder of BlackVines.net.

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Townrootz: Fern Stroud

Townrootz interview with Black Vines founder Fern A. Stroud.

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Grant puts spotlight on inequities in Black-owned businesses

The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a terrible toll on America’s small businesses, but nowhere has the impact been greater than on Black-owned businesses.

According to one recent study, there were more than 1 million Black-owned businesses in the U.S. in February 2020, but by mid-April, 440,000, or 41 percent, of those businesses had closed their doors. Whereas only 17 percent of white-owned businesses closed during the same time period, according to the same study — a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research…

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Tech and Terroir: Fern Stroud’s diverse talents grow Black Vines

The Black Vines Festival celebrated a jubilant, yet carefully safe, return to a live event late last month. The 11th annual festival hosted 400 sippers, noshers, art-lovers and networkers—half of capacity at Berkeley’s CIEL Creative Space…

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Voices for Change

In the premiere of the third season of “Voices for Change,” we celebrate Black History Month with the return of a beloved parade and festival. We also take a deep dive into the NFL’s diversity problem, exacerbated by the lawsuit filed by former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores and discuss the recent win for gender equity in sports by members of the U.S. women’s soccer team.