Wine For Haiti-You Can Help

The devastating earthquake in Haiti has left an entire nation in dire need of aid. Here’s your chance to help; it’s a joint effort between the wine charity site BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A BOTTLE and online wine magazine PALATE PRESS. You can help in two ways: either by donating a bottle from your cellar for auction, or by bidding on those bottles up for auction… or both.

From the press release:

The idea is simple- wine lovers contribute a bottle from their cellar, then bid on the mixed cases. Some tremendous bottles have already been offered, from 1976 Dr. Loosen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Beerenauslese to a Methuselah (6.0 Liter bottle) of 2005 Rodney Strong Rockaway Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The generous contributions of wine lovers will all be turned directly into money for disaster relief.

From the article posted on both sites:

The auction will be held on line, in the comments section, in this post. Palate Press: The online wine magazine will auction the wine in cases, as they arrive. David Honig, Publisher of Palate Press: The online wine magazine, will start the ball rolling with a 1976 Dr. Loosen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Beerenauslese, retail value $139.00.

Please promise your contribution in the comments, and then contribute your bottle for the auction. Then come back and bid, bid, bid.

The process might be a bit unwieldy, but the goal is to get the wine in, and the money out, as quickly as possible. As soon as I have the first case, the auction will start. As soon as I have the second case (or we’ll give it two days if the wine floods in), we will close the auction on the first case. We will do it until the wine runs out. Other management suggestions are welcome, indeed invited.

All the money will go to the American Red Cross.

…hats off to the fine folks at Palate and Brother can you spare a bottle for putting this together. Direct any questions to WineForHaiti@palatepress.com.