Black-Owned Wine And Spirits Brands To Shop

Tomorrow (July 4) is Independence Day, so your bar shelves and wine cabinets must be stocked up. Below are six Black-owned wine and spirits brands to support ahead of your celebrations. Bayab Palm & Pineapple Gin Spearhead Spirits, a black-owned, founder-led business to put premium African spirits in the world’s bars, released this new African-grown gin. Bayab Palm & Pineapple Gin is a copper pot-distilled gin made with Nigerian and Ghanaian palm sap, South African pineapple, and baobab fruit from Ghana and Zambia. It is distilled in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey is reported to be the fastest-growing whiskey brand in U.S. history and the top-selling Black-owned and founded spirit brand of all time. The founder and CEO, Fawn Weaver, was the first Black woman to lead a major American spirit company. The name is inspired by the country’s first Black master distiller, Nathan “Nearest” Green. He was a former slave who mentored Jack Daniel. Anteel Tequila Couple Don and Nayana Ferguson created Anteel Tequila in 2017 out of appreciation for premium tequila. Nayana, who is a cancer survivor, made history as the first black woman in the world to have ownership of and...