Burnie Williams is a 2nd generation African American, small business owner in Washington DC. Chat’s Liquors was a pioneer of alcoholic beverage retail immediately following the 1934 repeal of ‘Prohibition’ in Washington, DC, when Mr. Neil Chatlin was one of the first to be granted an alcoholic beverage license. This makes Chat’s the oldest business on 8th. They have operated out of the original location at 503 8th St SE, on what’s now recognized as Historic Barracks Row, 8th Street SE, between the Eastern Market Metro at Pennsylvania Ave to the north and terminating at the Navy Yard, as 8th St intersects M St SE, to the south. This stretch of 8th Street was the first commercial corridor in the Nation’s Capital, is only 8 blocks from the United States Capitol building and is home to the US Marine Corps at 8th & I, the “Oldest Post of the Corps,” established in 1801.

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On this episode of the Swirl Suite, we talk to Tuanni Price of Zuri Wine Tours. Zuri Wine Tasting provides professional wine services including wine tasting classes, tours, wine list consulting, education and small-to-large scale events for enthusiasts, corporate and non-profit clients. We host travel and events in Los Angeles, California and Cape Town, South Africa.

Tuanni describes quarantine in South Africa and the ban on all alcohol.

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This week on The Swirl Suite, Sarita chats with wine elevator, Vince Moten of Elevate Your Tastes. Vince began his career as a sales representative for a distributor in DC during the summer of 2013. In this episode you will hear where he fell into wine and never turned back.

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Due to technical issues, Paul and I moved our live interview to podcast style. Paul is the owner of Terrior Tribeca in New York City. "As it relates specifically to wine, Terroir was viewed as a sandbox: our place to play, with our toys and our rules and our friends. The intimacy and connection we were able to have as a staff and with our guests further enlightened us to what wine could truly be: it could be everything. And an engagement with it could cause you to truly change your world view. The world of Terroir continues to push all boundaries in the wine world (though Marco and I parted ways in 2014)."

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On this episode of the Swirl Suite, we re-introduce ourselves to new listeners and we have a in depth conversation about how black people are treated in the wine industry.

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We felt like this would be a perfect time to highlight some black history so we invited Dr. Howard Conyers. Dr Conyers carries a number of interesting titles – Ph. D. graduate, aerospace engineer, guest lecturer and historian, traditional whole hog BBQ pitmaster. On June 20, he will add another – television celebrity. We watched his guest appearance on Man Fire Food followed by an enlightening discussion.

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This week on the Swirl Suite, we talk marketing with wine photographer and social media strategist, Meaghan Webster. Meaghan Webster is currently Marketing Manager at First Batch Hospitality, the group behind urban winemaking and events at Brooklyn Winery in NY, District Winery in DC, and the soon-to-open RiNo Point Winery in Denver.

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On this episode of The Swirl Suite, we go after dark with author and photographer, Rae Mathis. We catch up, drink wine and answer a list of entertaining, random questions.

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Melissa grew up in the Linganore Winecellars family business. The daughter of executive winemaker Anthony Aellen, she has bachelor’s degrees in viticulture and enology, and has worked in seven wineries across the country and in New Zealand, learning the art of winemaking.

Melissa gives us some history of Linganore and talks about her journey to winemaking.

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On this episode of The Swirl Suite, the gang chats with writer and photographer, Alisha Sommer. Alisha founded and edited a print literary journal (Blackberry: a magazine), published personal essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry for a variety of online and print publications, ghostwritten, collaborated with Angela Burke for Black Food & Beverage, and taught at Squam Art Workshops. She says she is "just a storyteller". She has a sweet little blog called Sommersalt, where I talk about my essentials for living: food, wine, and words.

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