Community Conversations on Race – Sylvia Lemus

Host Michelle Marques talks with Sylvia Lemus, community leader and partner in Lemus Family Wines. Sylvia talks about her family roots in Sonoma County, and a project she embarked on with her cousins to create a wine label inspired by her grandparents. The name of the wine, Primani, is a combination of the word for cousin in Spanish (primo/a) and her grandfather’s name, Manuel, or Mani for short. As a Latina, she appreciates the fact that much of the agricultural and vineyard work done in Sonoma County is done by people of color, yet there are not many Latinx