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 ...

Could the days of the old boys’ club be numbered, though? They will be if Alicia Towns Franken, executive director of Wine Unify, continues breaking down barriers: “We welcome people of color ...