Sommelier and wine consultant Alicia Towns Franken embodies a tantalizing combination: wine --as another in my periodic series on curiosity and our senses--and an actual boots-on-the-ground effort to encourage and enable curiosity where barriers have long existed.

Wine Unify: https://www.wineunify.org

Theme music by Sean Balick; “Down by the Bank” by Barstool, via Blue Dot Sessions.

Photo Credit: Cary Wilton