Week1 - Virtual Tasting for Charity - Now through Dec 3rd - You pick the wine, you pick the Charity!

[Jim_Anderson]

Hope it’s not too late:

Biased wine review: Super bright and fresh. Like drinking flowers and limes and sunshine. Has the weight to carry that off. Easy to drink. Delicious in every way. Went great with a cauliflower crust/gluten free cheese pizza tonight. Us winemakers always eating well😳!

[brigcampbell]

@JohnMag

So a story that is tangentially related to the holidays was that right after last New Year’s we finally got to catch up with old friends (husband and wife), whom we had not been able to see for a couple of years (despite their living in Manhattan and our being in northern NJ) due to a variety of reasons, schedule conflicts and medical problems on their side figuring prominently among them.
Now these two were Broadway royalty, not household names but NY theatre insiders. The wife was a person with the talent and the chutzpah to tell Gower Champion to go f*** himself to his face when she was 19 (no, not a me too thing).
We knew she had chronic health issues, some related to a lifetime of professional dancing, but we didn’t know how severe things had become. At any rate, we were just taking the opportunity to finally see them again. They liked Jean Georges, so we went there for lunch. Wine was on us, and I just decided that we were just going to pick what they were probably going to like the most. A lovely Huré 4 Elements to start and a surreally excellent Dauvissat Vaillons 2019 (yeah, 1er not GC but in 2019, Dauvissat just nailed it). Both delightful, great meal, even better company.
She passed a few weeks later.
Just open that special bottle when people are around to share it.

John, your post was selected so you get to pick the charity.

Have a favorite? I’ll give $250 so let me know

[JohnMag]

Wow, I didn’t expect that. I’ll message you with a suggestion. Thank you!

[brigcampbell]

@JohnMag

Wow, I didn’t expect that. I’ll message you with a suggestion. Thank you!

Donation made to Misty Copeland Foundation! Per John’s request the donation is in memory of Louisa Cabot.

Founded in 2021 by Misty Copeland — the first African-American principal ballerina at American Ballet Theatre — the Misty Copeland Foundation (MCF) brings greater diversity, equity, and inclusion to dance by making ballet affordable, accessible, and fun.

The mission of The Misty Copeland Foundation (MCF) is to:
● Provide opportunities for children in under-resourced communities to
engage their bodies, hearts, and minds in learning through dance, especially ballet.
● Advance the art form of ballet through greater diversity, equity, and inclusion.
● Pursue social justice through arts activism

@ldraper you’re free to donate to which every cause you choose.

[JohnMag]

Thanks to everybody who contributed to this great charity idea and thanks especially to @brigcampbell !

[ldraper]

@brigcampbell

you’re free to donate to which every cause you choose.

I wish! But I’ll just choose one this time. I think Wine on Wheels is an appropriate one this week.

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