Advancing Latinx in wine
Sustainability rests on three pillars: people, planet and profit. Growers see climate action as a strategic priority — but many are slow to recognise social justice as a risk factor at all.
The journal
Field notes from the vineyard and the trade.
What the certifications are worth, what the weather is doing to terroir, who does the picking — and the wines found along the way.
Written by Sandra E. Taylor
- Posts
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- Subjects
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- 2017–2025
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Five subjects, one argument.
Sustainability is usually read as environmental stewardship alone. These posts keep pulling it back to the whole of it — the climate that is rewriting terroir, the people who work the rows, and the market that decides whether any of it pays.
Diversifying the wine industry: the business case
Too often diversity is thought of as solving a problem, when in fact it should be viewed as a missed opportunity. Black consumers’ collective spending is set to reach $1.7 trillion by 2030 — equal to the projected GDP of Mexico.
4 min read
Diversifying the wine industry: implicit bias
Only 14% of bonded wineries in California report a woman as lead winemaker, and fewer than 0.1 percent of all winemakers in the US are Black. Diversifying the industry goes well beyond hiring people of color.
5 min read
Diversity: what’s happening internationally, and why you need to care
Addressing the Australian Wine International Technical Conference on diversity, I kept to three themes: unconscious bias, the barriers to entry that mean we are missing talent, and the business case — not simply social justice.
4 min readThe long version is a book.
Everything argued here — what the words on a label mean, what the certifications audit, which producers have earned them — worked through bottle by bottle, with lists by varietal and region.