Saturday, September 13, 2008:
We'll be pouring at the Marin Wine Auction , a charity benefit at the Marin Art and Garden Center, in Ross, California.
Sunday, September 28, 2008:
"Only women can touch the grapes" at our 4th Annual
Stomp Out Breast Cancer Grape Stomp
on Sunday, September 28, 11am-4pm
$25 minimum donation per "stomper"
All donation proceeds go to Sutter Breast Care Center in Santa Rosa, CA, to subsidize mammograms for uninsured women in our community. Stompers receive a commemorative t-shirt or visor. While 'only women can touch the grapes', men are welcome to attend to lend their support, and everyone is invited to support the cause by purchasing our just-released 2005 Due Sorelle, the wine which was crushed at our 2005 grape stomp benefit.
Please let us know if you plan to attend; call us at (707) 431-7767, or email to info@amphorawines.com.
Here are a few tips if you you're stomping:
- wear clothes that you don;t mind getting grape-stained
- Please, NO lotion, perfume or scented products on your legs!
- Bring a towel
- Don't forget a camera!
Here's the press release for the event, which includes a little background information:
Healdsburg, CA, August 20, 2008-On September 28, one of Sonoma Wine Country’s most popular harvest events--Amphora Winery’s annual “Only Women Can Touch the Grapes” grape stomp—will once again help raise funds to provide mammograms to Sonoma County women without health insurance.
Rick Hutchinson, Amphora’s owner/winemaker, has announced that proceeds from his “Stomp Out Breast Cancer!” fundraiser to the Breast Care Center at Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa and earmarked to pay for free mammograms.
“I’m all about raising awareness about breast cancer and encouraging women to get mammograms for early diagnosis,” said Hutchinson, who has lost two sisters to the disease. “Coming from a poor family myself, I know the challenges poverty-stricken women face when deciding about diagnostic medical care. My mother never would have had a mammogram—she would have spent the money to pay rent or buy food.”
Amphora’s annual grape stomp has been a tradition since Hutchinson founded the winery back in 1997. Each harvest, hundreds of women make the trek to the winery and make a donation in order to stomp grapes that Hutchinson crafts into a wine named “Due Sorelle” (Italian for ‘two sisters’, in honor of Hutchinson’s late sisters Janet and Judy). This year’s stomp participants will be able to taste and purchase the just-released 2005 Due Sorelle, and the net proceeds form the wine sales will also be donated to Sutter Breast Care Center. Over the years, more than $20,000 dollars has been raised at the stomps for the Sutter Breast Care Center, and the Bay Area Chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
“Because of my personal loss, this effort is very important to me,” Hutchinson said. “Several years ago we had a woman here from Wisconsin who stomped. Because of what she learned, she decided to get a mammogram when she returned home. We got a call from her a month or so later and she was so grateful—they found a small tumor. Fortunately it was early, and she was able to recover. That really brought it home to me—it’s vital that we get the word out. And I’m delighted to partner with Sutter so we can use the money we raise to help people her in Sonoma County.”
Saturday& Sunday, November 1-2, 2008:
A Wine & Food Affair is the premier event for the Russian River Wine Road!
Join us for a weekend of wine and food pairing in the Alexander, Dry Creek and Russian River Valleys.
We'll be serving
Midsummer Night's Cream of Tomato Soup paired with our
2005 Syrah. Follow the link above for more information or tickets, or click
here.
Craving our 2007 pairing? You can get the recipe for Bridget's Chile Verde here.
January 17-18, 2009: Winter Wineland
March 7-8 and 14-15, 2009: Barrel Tasting
