As the founder of the Boston-based nonprofit Wine Unify, Alicia Towns Franken is accelerating careers and creating a ...

Alicia Towns Franken, executive director of Wine Unify, is taking action to amplify diversity in the industry. The sommelier ...

Food & Wine today reveals its 2025 Game Changers, honoring the people and companies transforming the way we eat and drink for ...

Massolino: The 2017 Barolo Normale is being featured in Aspen by Towns Franken and Proctor, and it's no wonder: Located in Serralunga d'Alba and crafting fantastic wine since it was begun in 1896 ...

The former was classy, the latter was hardy, and it was hoped that the Franken-wine's monster would combine the best characteristics of both grapes. It was largely ignored for 40 years until a ...

Franken, a Minnesota native ... a vending machine that holds up to 500 bottles of wine. Temperature-controlled vending machines would be placed at up to 100 wine kiosks in grocery stores or ...