Red White & Black with Bertony Faustin

Bertony Faustin discusses his work at Abbey Creek as the first recorded Black winemaker in Oregon, his upcoming documentary Red White and Black, and how he's helping to tell the stories of other minority winemakers.

 

Bertony Faustin is the proprietor of  Abbey Creek Vineyard. Born from Haitian immigrant parents and a transplanted New Yorker, Bertony has found not only his family, but his destiny in Oregon wine country. An Anesthesia Technician by trade, Bertony started his wine career like many, somewhat by accident. It was the passing of his father in 2007 that inspired him to take that leap of faith as his family once did in the past. Noting his in-laws had a small vineyard, he began exploring the potential of making his own wine and gradually launched Abbey Creek Vineyard.

 

Always a student and innovator, Bertony is producing the documentary Red, White, and Black. As the project has taken shape, more minorities in wine making have surfaced and an important story has become ever more important.