Surviving Motherhood: Mississippi native turned wine maker

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – I really feel like it’s only becoming that I do yet another surviving motherhood on this, my final day.

If you understand something about me apart from the truth that I’ve 4 good-looking sons, you understand that I really like an ideal bottle of wine.

Tonight, I’m introducing you to a Mississippi native who’s venturing into the world of wine. It’s a place the place you don’t see many Mississippians and even fewer black Mississippi males.

Lashaun Barnes says, “I used to be like, ‘Hey! What’s a market that residents love?’ I used to be like, ‘Hmm, girls love wine.’ It’s a day of coming to a spot and winding down and saying, ‘Hey, I’ve had a tough week. The children have made me a brilliant mother. What can I do to present them a way of chill and rest?’ That’s the place I got here up with the wine.”

LaShaun Barnes is a Hermanville, Ms native whose entrepreneurial spirit led him to create two wines.

Now dwelling in Houston, he ventured over to Austin to find out about winemaking.

He says, “I selected the flavors and dissected it into the grapes and muscadines. [I] went again about two months later, bottled my prototype bottles. From there, we began creating the labels and positioned them on.

The wines, one pink and one white, every have particular names.

Splinzara is a phrase he got here up with that describes the dazzling impact of the wine, and the opposite identify hits even nearer to dwelling.

He says, “Addylabella, it got here from my Goddaughters. One is Adyson Tate, and one is known as Bella Washington. So I used to be like, ‘Hey, to present one thing again to them as a result of they saved me at a time in school the place I used to be going by way of a lot, and I used to be like these women got here into my life and made issues so significantly better for me.’”

The pink wine is also thought-about wholesome.

Based on Barnes, “This wine has some components of cranberries and issues which might be good to your kidneys and issues of that mould to advertise these issues inside your physique that may say, ‘Hey, this might help you in a method.’”

Ultimately, Barnes says he hopes that that is the beginning of a generational wealth-building product.

“It’s a restricted marketplace for black males in that I hope that the generations that I’m constructing for my nephews, nieces, and goddaughters can go and create a vineyard afterward down the road,” he stated.

Lashaun is already working with native shops to get his wine on cabinets.

However within the meantime, you’ll be able to try his web site kaptivmomentswinecollection.com to be taught extra about his assortment.

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