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‘Over the past three years, over 150 students that have benefited directly from the Gérard Basset Foundation funds. These are 150 students, 150 households, in some of South Africa's poorest communities with young people who had little to no opportunities.’

Executive Director, Pinotage Youth Development Academy, South Africa

‘This scholarship means I can continue to develop my wine knowledge in spite of my financial constraints. Currently, there are no black Masters of Wine. Representation matters’

Golden Vines® Wine Scholar Guild Scholar, USA

‘As someone who did not have access to formal education in wine, attending the academy has been a game-changer for me whilst also making wine education accessible to others in Ghana too‘

Africa Wine Academy, WSET Level 1 in Wine Student, Ghana

‘Winning a Taylor's Port Golden Vines® Diversity Scholarship is surreal to me, and I am truly honoured and thankful to have been chosen. I really value the incredible mentorship and internship programmes with top professionals and wineries around the world that I now have access to’

Taylor‘s Port Golden Vines® Diversity Scholar, USA

‘This opportunity has been life-changing, educational and transformative. With a budding curiosity about wine, but limited prior experience, I wasn’t quite sure whereto begin. This experience has enabled me to think how I see myself and the power I can now genuinely hold in the spaces I walk into’

280 Project Viticulture Apprentice, USA

‘Winning this scholarship means that I have access to and representation within a community that I had resigned myself to believe was always going to be beyond my reach. I now have a pathway to access education, mentorship, and even a language which had seemed so inaccessible to me before‘

Alexa Camus Golden Vines® Scholar in Spirits, USA