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Eric White
San Ramon, CA
Advanced Sommelier
Posts:9250
 | | 07/06/2006 7:51 PM |
| To Our Valued Customers,
We are deeply honored to be the 2006 V Foundation Vintner Grant designees at this year’s Wine Celebration. Below is a description of this great event. The V Foundation has kindly offered to extend an invitation to any of you who would like to attend. Please contact Diane if you do and she will be happy to help you.
Also, we will be donating to the Live Auction a dinner for 10 at Vineyard 29 hosted by Richard Reddington of Redd in Yountville and including a 3 liter of 2002 Vineyard 29 Aida Red Wine. The lot also includes a two day stay for five couples at the Villagio Inn, spa treatments and additional tours, food and wine. If you can not attend the Wine Celebration but would like to bid on this lot, please let Diane know that as well.
For more information on the V Foundation and this years Wine Celebration, please visit www.winecelebration.com.
Thank you for being a valued customer of Vineyard 29!
The 8th Annual V Wine Celebration
The V Foundation for Cancer Research is a charitable organization founded in 1993 by the late Jim Valvano and ESPN. The mission of The Foundation is to save lives by helping to find cures for cancer by funding critical research. In pursuit of that goal, The Foundation has funded grants in 36 states and the District of Columbia, operating such that no less that $.83 of every dollar raised has been directed to cancer research.
On August 11 & 12, the V Foundation will hold it’s annual west coast fundraiser, the V Wine Celebration. This world-class wine event and auction, set in the magical Napa Valley, brings together people from the technology, sports entertainment, and wine making worlds to raise money for the fight against cancer.
Guests enjoy two days of gourmet food and ultra-premium wines, winemaker dinners, exclusive tours, wine tastings and valley-centric experiences. The main event is a Saturday evening gala dinner, private performance by recording artist Kenny Loggins and silent and live auctions.
This year the V Wine Celebration is pleased to honor Chuck and Anne McMinn of Vineyard 29 as our 2006 Vintner’s Grant recipient. The Vintner’s Grant program allows for supporting vintners to personally get involved in the grant distribution process by designating a specific area of cancer research to fund and then the V Foundation’s Scientific Review Committee finds the best center doing research in this area.
Chuck and Anne McMinn have decided to fund a V Scholar, a young researcher blazing trails in the race to find cures for this devastating disease. Additionally, the McMinns have decided to generously self-fund a pediatric leukemia research grant at Duke University Medical Center.
We invite you to join us at the V Wine Celebration this August. By attending and supporting the V Wine Celebration, you can actively participate in the fight against cancer while enjoying gourmet food and wine, live entertainment in the spirit of Jimmy V against the beautiful backdrop of the Napa Valley. For more information on attending or to download an invitation, please visit www.winecelebration.com or call Diane Shearin at 415.482.0558.
V Wine Celebration
1127 Pope St., Suite 203
St. Helena, CA 94574
p 707.963.0611 f 707.581.1710
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| David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 07/07/2006 12:54 AM |
| $1750. Not bad for what you get. And with the profits benefiting the V Foundation it is a pretty good deal.
Thinking about it.
Down in the last paragraph... Quote:
We invite you to join us at the V Wine Celebration this August. By attending and supporting the V Wine Celebration, you can actively participate in the fight against cancer while enjoying gourmet food and wine, live entertainment in the spirit of Jimmy V against the beautiful backdrop of the Napa Valley.
Who is Jimmy V? | | | |
| Joseph Bembry
Wine Lover
Posts:4875
| | 07/07/2006 1:24 AM |
| Jim Valvano is the late coach of North Carolina State Basketball team. They won a National Championship, he was diagnosed with lukemia and then made a famous speech, beautiful and heartfelt, at the Espy Awards. He died soon thereafter and a foundation was created in his honor.
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| David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 07/07/2006 3:12 AM |
| I just wanted to make sure it wasn't this guy...  | | | |
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