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    Meet the Boston Couple Behind Shaw’s Hot New Wine Shop

    2024

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    Boston Leaders Champion Diversity in Wine

    2023

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    Future 40 Tastemakers

    2023

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    One of the Country’s Best Wine Shops Is Coming to Shaw

    2023

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    The Douglases broaden their ambitions for Urban Grape

    2023

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    Black-Owned Wine Shops to Support from Coast to Coast

    2023

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    The VinePair 50

    2022

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    Urban Grape’s award winners launch careers in wine

    2022

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    The Social Justice Heroes of 2020

    2020

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    Jackson Family Wines joins with The Urban Grape to help promote diversity

    2023

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    Bringing Hospitality to Wine Retail: TJ Douglas of Urban Grape

    2022

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    The Urban Grape Is Changing the Wine Industry

    2021

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    Top 100 Female Founders of the Year

    2020

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    Queerty

    13 Last-Minute Subscription Box Gifts for the LGBTQ+ Elf in Your Life

    2023

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    NECN

    Holiday Wines 101

    2023

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    Cosmopolitan

    10 Cheap Champagne Brands That *Taste* Like the Good Stuff

    2023

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    The Root

    The Root's Ultimate 2023 Holiday Gift Guide

    2023

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    America's Test Kitchen

    Is All Screw-Top Wine Bad?

    2023

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    NECN

    Wine O'Clock Pairings with an Expert

    2023

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    Pro Chef Smart Brief

    Paving the way for a more inclusive wine industry

    2023

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    Boston Magazine

    Wine Trailblazers Hadley and TJ Douglas Share Their Favorite Things

    2021

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    Salon

    What will happen when drinkers go back to bars?

    2021

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    Boston Magazine

    Best Wine Shop

    2021

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    GBH

    How The Black Lives Matter Movement Boosted Local Black-Owned Businesses

    2021

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    Punch

    Wine Retail’s Great Awakening

    2021

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    New York Times

    Black Wine Professionals Demand to be Seen

    2021

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    WBUR

    A New Scholarship Aims To Help Fix The Wine Industry's Diversity Problem

    2021

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    WBUR

    Windows are Not Lives

    2020

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    Boston Globe

    It's a broken window, not a life

    2020

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    Boston Globe

    South End Wine Shop Celebrates Black-Owned Brands

    2020

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    Boston Globe

    Urban Grape Launches Wine Education Award for Students of Color

    2020

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    Boston Magazine

    Best Wine Store

    2020

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    Boston Business Journal

    Urban Grape owners start program to promote diversity in wine industry

    2020

    Food & Wine

    Boston Shop Launches Wine Studies Scholarship for Students of Color

    2020

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    NECN

    Which Rosé Is Right for You?

    2020

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    SevenFiftyDaily

    Ten rising stars charting creative new paths—and pushing for inclusivity—in the world of wine, beer, and spirits

    2020

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    NECN

    What's Your (Progressive) Number?

    2020

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    WCBV

    A Food and Culture Tour of Boston

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