Although the numbers are still relatively small, there are a number of African-Americans producing and selling wine. More and more people are drinking wine with dinner, at home, and in social settings. Wine now matches beer as the most consumed alcoholic drink in America. Vision Cellars wine club is often full, but now is your chance to join, as they currently have a few spots open. You can find Vision Cellars on the wine lists of a limited number of high end restaurants or for purchase online directly from Vision Cellars. Vision Cellars’ Pinot Noirs are very versatile, pairing well with a wide variety of foods from raw oysters to burgers and fries. His old world style Pinot Noir-higher acidity and less fruit forward-has developed a reputation for consistent, high quality. Mac’s wine making philosophy gives precedence to the expression of the terroir of each individual vineyard from where the grapes are sourced. Specializing in Pinot Noir, Vision Cellars produces 1,800 to 2,400 cases of wine annually.
Vision Cellars is situated in the Russian River Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA) of Sonoma County, California.
In addition to mentoring the next generation of wine industry leaders, he is also the founder of the Association of African American Vintners-comprised of African American wine producers. She complains that he gives so much time and energy away that he has little left for himself and his own projects.
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Indeed, his wife has to work hard to limit the amount of time that Mac devotes to mentoring aspiring winemakers and teaching wine enthusiasts about the winemaking process. But he is not so proud that he doesn’t take the time to elevate other people’s wine knowledge, especially African Americans. He does not hesitate to reference awards his wines have received or the Presidents who have served his wine in the White House. His father was a moonshine maker, but Mac quickly fell in love with wine, after tasting a “phenomenal” wine from Burgundy at the age of 12.įrom then on, he was committed to becoming a great winemaker, moving to California in 1963 and learning the craft of winemaking in California vineyards until he started his own in 1995.The pride he takes in making great wine is palpable as you talk to him about his wines. Overalls and a straw hat is the daily uniform for this winemaker from a small country town in Texas. There is no mistaking Mac McDonald, owner and winemaker at Vision Cellars, in overalls and straw hat on his vineyard in Sonoma County–or anywhere else for that matter. Written by Janelle Carter of The Cork Chronicles African-American Owned Wine Labels: Mac McDonald’s Vision Cellars
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