Black Excellence In A Bottle: Besa Gordon Celebrates WeRise Wines on Good Day Seattle

Besa Gordon joined Good Day Seattle this morning to uplift WeRise Wines and the recent one-year anniversary celebration of their wine club. Operating in downtown Seattle, WeRise Wines is Black, LGBTQ+-owned wine bar that specializes in highlighting underrepresented wineries and winemakers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 

“One thing that I really do love about them is that they meet you where you're at in terms of your knowledge of wine,” Gordon said. “They take the stuffiness away.”

Not only did the anniversary celebration showcase the intense sense of community WeRise has cultivated, but it was also a chance for founder and CEO Jamila Conley to launch her new private label wine. Gordon emphasized the weight of this achievement as a small business in Seattle, and reflected on her own relationship with WeRise. 

“I've been watching their whole journey, and I'm just really proud that…their wine club has been there for now a year, and we have this amazing private label,” she said, gifting a diverse selection of WeRise wines to Mayovsky and FOX13. “They're continuing to educate all of us on the amazingness of wine.”

The full story on WeRise Wine’s mural repainting will be featured this weekend on Back2Besa, along with other stories that honor legacies and bring community together. 

Visit werisewines.com/ to learn more about WeRise and their upcoming events. 

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