CARIBBEAT: ‘Pop Pairings’ consultants blend food, wine, and jazz

Key Facts

• Guyana-born Erwin Caesar, owner of Brooklyn’s owner 333 Lounge, has catered to Mayor de Blasio, then-Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and other high-profile customers in the past.
• But lately he’s reaching out to — and expanding the perspective — of everyday folks by coupling with the “Pop Pairings” wine consultant firm, who promote winemakers of color with jazz music performances.
• “Most black owned business don’t have a wine program,” admits Caesar, who opened his bar-restaurant on the Park Slope-Prospect Heights border in 2014.
• “I wanted to craft a program around wine, and spirits,” with the help of the wine consultants, he said.

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