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After a profession in company well being care, Alicia Kidd was prepared for her second act. “I enjoy wine as a consumer and noticed the lack of diversity,” she says. “I launched my company to fill the gap.”

Based mostly within the East Bay, the Wine Noire is an internet retailer centered on ladies and BIPOC winemakers. Kidd additionally presents companies to assist develop their companies and gross sales.

In keeping with Kidd, the wines she carries from California, South Africa and France — like jazz musician Marcus Johnson’s FLO (For the Love Of) varietals and the extremely rated Lamiable Grand Cru Further Brut — are arduous to search out. Bundles, which embrace two to 6 bottles, make particularly good items.

Digital present playing cards can be found, too, and a wine membership is predicted to launch in late January (beginning at $100, with members receiving three, 4 or six bottles). Additionally in 2021, Kidd is opening CoCo Noir Wine Store & Bar in downtown Oakland.

Within the meantime, Kidd just lately launched an e-book information to pairing wines with mild bites and he or she curates bespoke digital experiences that merge meals, dessert and wine (for instance, an epicurean expertise that options trivia video games and music).

On-line at thewinenoire.com