WeRise Wines Celebrates Grand Opening with Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell

WeRise Wines, a new wine bar and store in downtown Seattle, celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Mayor Bruce Harrell. The store's mission is to celebrate diversity and inclusion in the wine industry by showcasing wines from BIPOC and LGBTQ+ owned wineries. 

 "It was important... that communities of color and other underrepresented communities, that they get to see people who look like them and resonate with them, doing something that traditionally, people feel excluded from," said Jamila Conley, CEO and founder of WeRise Wines…

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