Mason Washington and the Pull of German Roots

Mason Washington sits on a staircase with bottles of Riesling scattered around him.
Photo credit Mason Washington

Mason Washington wants to set himself apart in the wine world. He’s convinced his German identity is the ticket.   The 24-year-old digital media marketer grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a small city in the American south that Washington charitably describes as being “what you make of it.” It was an unlikely place for a young Black man to be raised in a German family. But his grandmother Ingrid, a native of Berlin, and his mother, Carmen, born in Munich, were just that. “The biggest thing for me is the German heritage on my mom’s side,” says Washington. Now, he’s digging into…

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