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Episode 49: Operating a Black-Owned Champagne Company with Marvina Robinson
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Episode 49: This Friday's interview is the 26th installment in the Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy block of podcasts. It will focus on the theme Operating a Black-Owned Champagne Company. Our guest for this Friday is Marvina Robinson. She is the founder of Stuyvesant Champagne @stuyvesantchampagne.
Growing up, Marvina's love affair with champagne began quite humbly as a college student. She and her friends would often pool their limited funds to purchase a bottle of Moet & Chandon, White Star. They frequented a liquor store on Fulton Street and St. James Place within the neighborhood she was raised. They would do the traditional toast, cheers and proudly sip out of their plastic cups. Although this Bottle of Nostalgia was discontinued, it stoked a love for champagne in Marvina’s heart that would burn brightly until this day.
M. Robinson desired her own brand of champagne to serve as the private house label for her upcoming champagne bar. In order to achieve that goal, she worked with a vineyard in France to create Stuyvesant Champagne. The first tasting of Stuyvesant Champagne was hosted by Suite 607 located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This was the first official tasting in the United States with invited guests. After receiving great feedback from the carefully selected attendees, she was able to confirm the two selections that would become the primary offering of Stuyvesant Champagne; a Rose and a Grand Reserve Brut.
One of M. Robinson's fondest memories of champagne occurred in January of 2019 when she visited the famous Les Deux Magots in Paris, France. She sat outside in the cold, under a heated lamp, chatted with a fellow patron and sipped champagne as they did in the movies.
M. Robinson has a zest for life and travels and hopes to bring a taste of home, spice and culture to the Champagne community. She is one of the few African American women owning a Champagne brand. Her love for her hometown, Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn, NY), inspired the name of her brand, Stuyvesant Champagne.
She invites you to raise a glass and toast to the freshness of family and beginnings of a strong and fruitful relationship.
If you would like to purchase a bottle of Stuyvesant Champagne please visit www.stuyvesantchampagne.com.
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