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ESSENCE rounded up several wines by Black-owned wineries and vintners to help you toast to the holidays in style.

Several local organizations hope you’ll step up and make a commitment to support black-owned businesses this February and beyond. It’s part of black history month and local entrepreneurs say it’s never been more crucial to spend your money with purpose.

‘I don’t think I’ll be the last:’ Meet Florida’s first Black female winemaker Desriee Noisette founded Mermosa four years ago Updated:  Tags:  “Mermosa is inspired by our family’s first mermaid. Her name was Celestine Noisette,” she said. The story goes back seven generations when Celestine lived in Haiti during the late 1700s. She met and married a white Frenchman named Phillipe. “Then shortly after they moved to Charleston, South Carolina. And when they moved to Charleston...