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Lodi Collective Is Early Leader In Efforts To Increase Wine Industry Diversity With Partner, The Roots Fund

Lodi Collective Is Early Leader In Efforts To Increase Wine Industry Diversity With Partner, The Roots Fund
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Lodi Appellation Inclusion Collective working to bring diversity to wine world

Lodi Appellation Inclusion Collective working to bring diversity to wine world Bob Highfill LODI – Shortly after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officers, Rodney Tipton came across a social media post. It showed a list of Black wine professionals and said please do your part to magnify their voices. And by the way, there’s not much inclusion of race in the wine industry, the post read. The words didn’t surprise Tipton, who owns Acquiesce Winery & Vineyards in Acampo with his wife, Susan Tipton, who also is the winemaker. For the most part, the wine world from top to bottom is white.

Start the new year with these recent releases from Lodi family wineries

Many Lodi wineries will start releasing their newest vintages this spring. But if you can’t wait that long, there are plenty of delicious recent releases from Lodi’s family farmers and winemakers to tide you over. Here are a several suggestions from wineries on the east side of Lodi: 2019 Acquiesce Winery Ingénue ($34) This rare blend of white Rhone varieties grenache blanc, clairette blanche, bourboulenc and picpoul blanc from Susan and Rodney Tipton’s estate in Acampo in the Mokelumne River micro-AVA gives delicate aromas of white flowers, mandarin and sage that yields to an explosion of white flowers on the palate with creamy savory notes. Lemon and floral notes come across with medium body and mineral and citrus notes on the finish.

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