Ikenga Wines

Recent research notes: SF to Oakland
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Culture, context and creativity!

Sipping my way into the weekend, checking in on a bottle of Traditional-ish (Red) as it ages. The sun finally breaking through the Berkeley fog!

BTW, we have a new page on the website covering storage and serving your sparkling palm wine. Scan the QR code on the bottle or see the “Enjoyment” page (ikengawines.com/enjoyment)

What did you eat/drink to bring in the new year?

Us: This spicy/smoky/sweet jollof rice balanced out perfectly by the fresh nuttiness of pea tendrils.

Pairing: batch no. 12C; the pillowy mouthfeel soothes the spiciness from the rice and the meandering melon/sour sop/butterscotch notes create a seamless flavor adventure.

“the biggest wine you’ve never heard of.”

Senior wine critic Esther Mobley reviews our unusual approach to making a delicious wine!

While palm wine has been locally consumed for 1000’s of years, it was skipped over by the industrial revolutions due to it’s delicate nature- more finicky than grape wine, sake, or beer. Well, fast forward to today and Ikenga Wines is using technology to enable tropical wine categories. We celebrate old traditions in a new way.

Check out the article, link in story post. Also, sign up for our mailing list - obviously this is just the beginning.

“Maybe the most interesting of all was 12C, which looked like aged Champagne in the glass: golden, with a thick layer of foam when it’s just poured.”

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Check out our latest blog post for an introduction to biodesign and why it matters in food.

The Biodesigned Future of Food Biodesign is being used to create products that require less land, water, and energy to produce. The goal is to produce higher quality products that also lead to less pollution and fewer greenhouse gases emissions. Ikenga Wines is the first company that applying biodesign to tropical wines, like our...

Check out our first installment of Palm Wine Talk. This is where interesting people sit down and connect over our early batches of biodesigned sparkling palmwine. In this conversation, “Dr. Duru” ( ) and Abena cover all sorts of topics like night life in Accra, Ghanian food (banku, waakye, and tuozaafi) as well as fair trade chocolate.

Fela the musical is coming to this weekend!!

We had a clubhouse room with the director a little while ago in This show is sure to entertain. Music and palm wine are so intertwined; as they say: “It’s a vibe!”

Crypto-curious?? We are too! Maybe you’ve -ed for years or maybe you’re just getting into the world of cryptocurrency. Either way we want to explore new ways and interesting of doing things.

Ikenga Wines has just made the world’s first palm wine - bitcoin transaction!!!! On top of that we are now accepting and 3 in our checkouts! Click the link in our bio for more.