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WINES
VIA OTTIMISTA 2021
VIA OTTIMISTA 2021
VIA OTTIMISTA 2021
Durif 2019, Blind Faith Vineyard
Paso Robles-San Miguel District, CA
(Petite Syrah)
Artist Series: Jordan Piantedosi
ELPIS 2021
VIA OTTIMISTA 2021
VIA OTTIMISTA 2021
Elpis, Pinot Blanc 2020, Tukwila Vineyard
Dundee Hills, Willamette Valley, OR
ELPIS 2020
VIA OTTIMISTA 2021
VIA OTTIMISTA 2019
Elpis, Viognier Skin Contact Reserve 2018
Chehalem Mountains, OR
Artist Series: ZEKIIZO
VIA OTTIMISTA 2019
VIA OTTIMISTA 2019
VIA OTTIMISTA 2019
Cabernet Franc 2017
McCoy Vinyard, Fountaingrove District, Sonoma County, CA
Artist Series: Robin Evans Smith
VIA OTTIMISTA 2018
VIA OTTIMISTA 2019
VIA OTTIMISTA 2018
Primitivo 2016
Double Black Vineyard, Paso Robles, CA
Artiste Series: Cyrille Conan
VIA OTTIMISTA 2017
VIA OTTIMISTA 2019
VIA OTTIMISTA 2018
Nebbiolo 2013
Bee Sweet Vineyard, Edna Valley, CA
Artiste series: Jordan Piantedosi
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2021 PMC
VIA OTTIMISTA Durif 2019, Blind Faith Vineyard, Paso Robles-San Miguel Distric, Central Coast, CA
VIA OTTIMISTA Durif 2019, Blind Faith Vineyard, Paso Robles-San Miguel Distric, Central Coast, CA
VIA OTTIMISTA Durif 2019, Blind Faith Vineyard, Paso Robles-San Miguel Distric, Central Coast, CA
From a vineyard that gave us its last drops of wine, "Via Ottimista" (the path of the Optimist) it is our way to share our passion for Duriff AKA Petite Syrah in California. A wine of joy and pleasure, a beautiful black ink color, with aromas of blueberries, plum, black pepper, bouquet garni and chocolate 70%. Round, full, and firm in the mouth, with beautiful acidity. The aromas follow on finishes of wild blueberries of Vermont and fresh and peppery vanilla. This elegant and grand wine defines itself as muscular and masculine but stays very approachable like a real gentleman. You can drink it now and enjoy the beautiful acidity or wait few years. Drink before 2041.
(produced 675 bottles)
Food Pairing: From this French grape who became an American superstar, it will require hearty food to match his Character. Grilled red meat, venison. Subtly spicy dish will provide a good balance. But to bring full satisfaction, a quality blue cheeseburger with caramelized onions would be right at home with this wine. Also, any rich meaty stew will be appropriate.
ARTIST LABEL: Jordan Piantedosi
VIA OTTIMISTA Durif 2019, Blind Faith Vineyard, Paso Robles-San Miguel Distric, Central Coast, CA
VIA OTTIMISTA Durif 2019, Blind Faith Vineyard, Paso Robles-San Miguel Distric, Central Coast, CA
Jordan Piantedosi is an interdisciplinary maximalist artist based in Boston. She paints in oil, acrylic, and watercolor, she designs bizarre textiles for narrative-driven fashion collections created in collaboration with artist/designer/reality TV star Erin Robertson, and she writes and illustrates comics for Perfect Stars, a website she began in high school and has maintained with sporadic determination for twelve years. Her maniacal work explores humor, glamor, and adventure, with a brazen & campy ethos inspired by underground comics, high fashion, anime, video games, drag queens, biology & particle physics, top 40 hip-hop, and late nights endlessly browsing memes, nursing an entire jar of teddy peanut butter. http://jordanpiantedosiart.com/
Series for:
RESISTANCE COLLECTION
A mini collection to benefit causes & organizations.
Let's team up to make a positive change in our country & our home planet. We have to use our heads, our hands, and our hearts & make moves beyond armchair activism. This super-limited mini collection features an enchanting garden & a march of flowers & fey folk - these represent the flower children of the past, present, and future - optimistic & artistic dreamers who are willing to stand up for what they believe in: human rights, nature, progress, truth, and love.
The purchase of this drawing was donate to Wine Unify. It may take some time to assist people in the pronounciation of the name.
" VIA OTT-EMIST-A"
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VIA OTTIMISTA Durif 2019, Blind Faith Vineyard, Paso Robles-San Miguel Distric, Central Coast, CA
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
Stephen Ross Dooley Background: I grew up in the upper Midwest and call Minnesota “home”. My mother was a geography professor and dean, and I have two siblings. I attended Mankato State University and the University of California, Davis, to earn a degree in Enology. I spent 10 years making wine in the Napa Valley, two harvests “down under” in South Africa and Australia, before coming to the Edna Valley, where I worked for others for seven years, and then launched Stephen Ross in 1994. I met Paula in 1989, married in 1995, and we have two incredible kids. Wine Inspiration: Turning sunlight into wine – I get to make it, and yet it makes itself – all part of the science, artistry, agriculture, and magic of winemaking. Really, it is all I ever wanted to do. Hobbies: Drinking good wine and enjoying good food, woodworking, running, swimming and gardening.What I Do: It would be easier to say “What I don’t do at the winery.” You name it, I do it; from winemaking to wineglass polishing…
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2018
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2018
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
Every time you open a bottle of wine from The Black Donkey Project, you help us come closer to a cure for pediatric cancer. www.teampathtothecure.org
When a child gets sick, a life that was once viewed as having limitless potential, suddenly has boundaries. Tomorrow isn't a sure thing. Their eyes can lose that lifetime of hope that every child needs and deserves. We are committed to helping pediatric oncology efforts so that these kids' potential can be realized.Treating and curing cancer is a team effort. Patients, families, friends, doctors, nurses, hospital support staff and the community at large are among the critical members that impact our ability to beat this terrible disease. We've formed a team called Path to the Cure that includes dedicated individuals from various sectors of the Boston health and well-being sectors. While we all have our own personal reasons for participating in the PMC, we are all dedicated to doing our part to help patients like Olivia, Emily and CJ, our Pedal Partners. Our team is riding for these amazing kids, with the hope that someday, others won't have to go through what they have. But, we need your help. Please contribute generously. All money we raise will go directly to Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Dana Farber to help kids like Olivia, Emily and CJ realize their full potential.
VIA OTTIMISTA
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2018
VIA OTTIMISTA
via
[vahy-uh, vee-uh] preposition 1. by a route that touches or passes through; by way of: to cure children via good action.
ottimista
[op-tuh-mist] noun 1. an optimistic person. 2. a person who holds the belief or the doctrine of optimism.
2021 NO KID HUNGRY
ELPIS Pinot Blanc 2020
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
For the second year of this No Kid Hungry project, I continue to choose marginal grape varieties planted on various exceptional American wine terroirs. These grape varieties are examples of the resilience and determination of winemakers who believe in the quality of our common diversity in our country and in the importance of cultural diversity. This year, I chose for you a white wine from a region and terroir that normally stands out for its Pino Noir, Dundee Hills in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. This Pinot Blanc came from Tukilla Vineyard, farmed by Kathy and Lee Miller in collaboration with Jay Christopher Somers for this exceptional Winemaking. This Pinot Blanc fermented in stainless steel vast with no malolactic to permit a focus on minerality and fresh clean balanced palate.
A bouquet of sun, aromas of white spring flowers, aged golden delicious apple, and young yellow lemon from Salerno. Fine soft and pleasant but very complex in its elegance. A beautiful feminine note of this originally black grape varietal.
If you like Chablis style straight and clean, without super wood, this is your new discovery of the year produced by J.C. and Ronda Somers, one of the world's greatest winemakers couple in the heart of America’s Burgundy region.
. Drink before 2029. (Produce 504 bottles)
Food Pairing: Wonderful as an aperitif with dry cheese and cured meat. It will go perfectly with roast chicken or on the grill, summer salad and a plate of white meats. Seafood and pasta with creamy or lemony aromas.
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
Jay Christopher Somers
Owner and native Oregonian Jay Somers has been making wine in the Willamette Valley for more than 30 years, and established the J. Christopher brand in 1996. Working with great winemakers like his mentor John Paul of Cameron Winery and time spent at Adelsheim and Dry River in New Zealand Jay’s wines are hand-crafted in small lots and are sourced from some of the best vineyards in the Willamette Valley. The philosophy at J.C, Somers is to produce wines in an Old World style that emphasizes focus, length and balance. As Jay puts it, “We do not make fruit bombs. We want wines that have a fine balance of fruit, acidity and texture. We want wines that give you more than just a big mid-palate blast — wines that are complete.” The key to this, Jay firmly believes, is patient winemaking — it is vital not to rush things and allow the wines to develop naturally. The wines should evolve at their own pace, with a minimum of intervention. He is taking inspiration from wines of the Old World and applying it to the terroir of the Willamette Valley. When Jay is not busy making wine he is usually playing guitar and composing new music for his band Portland Cement, check out their new album "The Road to El Groove" on your favorite steaming app.
Ronda Newell Somers has been with Jay since 1991 and has been an important part of the winemaking team since 1996. Beyond the efforts of marketing and sales she has been in trenches of harvest and the cellar from the beginning. Most importantly is her moral support and ability to make a great cocktail at the perfect time. She is a huge fan of Nebbiolo, Champagne and of course the wines of the "Holy Land", Burgundy. Beyond her love for wine she is very interested in fashion and like Jay a huge music fan. Most recently she has become a certified Peak Pilates instructor, she will be opening a studio in the near future, watch for "Laughing Hundred Pilates."
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2021
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FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2021
The Black Donkey Project (TBDP) is charitable organization founded by Bertil Jean-Chronberg has produced exceptional wine every year since 2016 to raise funds for children’s causes. again in 2021, due to the urgency of the situation, TBDP has chosen to raise funds Also to fight child hunger in our state and our country. No Kid Hungry is a national nonprofit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. Chefs Cycle is a fundraising endurance event for No Kids Hungry, featuring award-winning chefs and members of the culinary community fighting hunger outside the kitchen. For the past seven years, Chefs Cycle For No Kid Hungry has engaged culinary talents who want to push their limits by completing a three day, 300-mile ride. Team Real Food Boston is a local Chefs Cycle team, with members from the greater Boston culinary community led by Ed Doyle.
ELPIS
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FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2021
ELPIS
The representation of Elpis focuses on the resiliency and hope that all children encompass. In Greek mythology, the figure Elpis was the personification of the spirit of hope, often depicted as a young woman, carrying flowers or a cornucopia.
2017
VIA OTTIMISTA Nebbiolo 2013
ARTIST LABEL: Jordan Piantedosi
ARTIST LABEL: Jordan Piantedosi
From a vineyard that gave us it's last drops wine, "Via Ottimista" (the path of the Optimist) it is our way to share our passion for Nebbiolo in California. After a long aging in Oak casks, this limited wine is available to you now.(1600 bottle produced)Concentrated, bright garnet color. Aromas of violet, rose, tea, with red fruit and lightly savory. “Via Ottimista” Nebbiolo 2013 is delicious and accessible wine. Made in an earlier-drinking style, this wine is in a softer style, showing more texture on the palate. It’s no doubt it will please you and a broader range of your wine drinkers friends. To share this wine will provoke discussions of curiosity and passion. Drink well now with food. “Vintners and growers throughout California reported another high quality and generous vintage in 2013. Following a warm and dry spring with near ideal conditions for bringing grapes to maturity, harvest was remarkably smooth and wineries are at capacity and working with some very high quality winegrapes.”
ARTIST LABEL: Jordan Piantedosi
ARTIST LABEL: Jordan Piantedosi
ARTIST LABEL: Jordan Piantedosi
Jordan Piantedosi is an interdisciplinary maximalist artist based in Boston. She paints in oil, acrylic, and watercolor, she designs bizarre textiles for narrative-driven fashion collections created in collaboration with artist/designer/reality TV star Erin Robertson, and she writes and illustrates comics for Perfect Stars, a website she began in high school and has maintained with sporadic determination for twelve years. Her maniacal work explores humor, glamor, and adventure, with a brazen & campy ethos inspired by underground comics, high fashion, anime, video games, drag queens, biology & particle physics, top 40 hip-hop, and late nights endlessly browsing memes, nursing an entire jar of teddy peanut butter. http://jordanpiantedosiart.com/
The Muse of Jordan for this VintageMelike means 'Queen' in Turkish.Pronounced Meli-kehThis name makes the owner feel very special and privileged. They seem to be very well liked by most people and delightful company when they are happy. Can be headstrong. It may take some time to assist people in the pronounciation of the name." VIA OTT-EMIST-A"
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
ARTIST LABEL: Jordan Piantedosi
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
Stephen Ross Dooley Background: I grew up in the upper Midwest and call Minnesota “home”. My mother was a geography professor and dean, and I have two siblings. I attended Mankato State University and the University of California, Davis, to earn a degree in Enology. I spent 10 years making wine in the Napa Valley, two harvests “down under” in South Africa and Australia, before coming to the Edna Valley, where I worked for others for seven years, and then launched Stephen Ross in 1994. I met Paula in 1989, married in 1995, and we have two incredible kids. Wine Inspiration: Turning sunlight into wine – I get to make it, and yet it makes itself – all part of the science, artistry, agriculture, and magic of winemaking. Really, it is all I ever wanted to do. Hobbies: Drinking good wine and enjoying good food, woodworking, running, swimming and gardening.What I Do: It would be easier to say “What I don’t do at the winery.” You name it, I do it; from winemaking to wineglass polishing…
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2018
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2018
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
Every time you open a bottle of wine from The Black Donkey Project, you help us come closer to a cure for pediatric cancer. www.teampathtothecure.org
When a child gets sick, a life that was once viewed as having limitless potential, suddenly has boundaries. Tomorrow isn't a sure thing. Their eyes can lose that lifetime of hope that every child needs and deserves. We are committed to helping pediatric oncology efforts so that these kids' potential can be realized.Treating and curing cancer is a team effort. Patients, families, friends, doctors, nurses, hospital support staff and the community at large are among the critical members that impact our ability to beat this terrible disease. We've formed a team called Path to the Cure that includes dedicated individuals from various sectors of the Boston health and well-being sectors. While we all have our own personal reasons for participating in the PMC, we are all dedicated to doing our part to help patients like Olivia, Emily and CJ, our Pedal Partners. Our team is riding for these amazing kids, with the hope that someday, others won't have to go through what they have. But, we need your help. Please contribute generously. All money we raise will go directly to Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Dana Farber to help kids like Olivia, Emily and CJ realize their full potential.
VIA OTTIMISTA
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2018
VIA OTTIMISTA
via
[vahy-uh, vee-uh] preposition 1. by a route that touches or passes through; by way of: to cure children via good action.
ottimista
[op-tuh-mist] noun 1. an optimistic person. 2. a person who holds the belief or the doctrine of optimism.
2018
VIA OTTIMISTA Primitivo 2016
ARTIST LABEL: Cyrille Conan
ARTIST LABEL: Cyrille Conan
Via Ottimista, Primitivo 2016,
Double Black Vineyard, Estrela District, Paso Robles, Central Coast, CA
Produced and bottled by Stephen Ross Winery.
lDon’t beworried, Primitivo is the twin brother of Zinfandel. Both grapes descend from the rare Croatianvarietal Crljenak. This wine will please you if you like full-bodied wine. Our goal with
Via Ottimista, Primitivo 2016,
Double Black Vineyard, Estrela District, Paso Robles, Central Coast, CA
Produced and bottled by Stephen Ross Winery.
lDon’t beworried, Primitivo is the twin brother of Zinfandel. Both grapes descend from the rare Croatianvarietal Crljenak. This wine will please you if you like full-bodied wine. Our goal with this vintage was to create a European approach to a big strong grape. I will define this wine as “A Gentle Giant” with elegance and a lot of fun. Up front you have crazy aromas of boysenberry and other small blue fruits. On the mouth,there is a nice balance between the fine tannins and wonderful acidity. It finishes with silky youthful tannins. A Must with summer BBQ steak.
2016 and the effect on the
grapes Overall it was a warm year. Every month except May was warmer than average, even with a coolstretch that lasted nearly a month between mid-August and early September. Anticipated El Niño rainfallwas less than hoped for (eight inches) in Paso Robles, but still greater than the prior four vintages ofdrought and appears to have had a positive effect on yields and quality. Yield projections for 2016 wereslightly below long-term averages. The long heat spikes we sometimes get did not materialize, so thegrapes moved through maturation beautifully and were in great condition at harvest.Zinfandel and produces excellent wines when grown in a warm region such as the San Miguel District of Paso Robles. The Double Black Vineyard Primitivo is organically farmed. The countryside around Double Black Vineyard looks a lot like Tuscany, rolling hills, lots of vineyards and the climate is similar, Mediterranean with warm summer days and cool evenings. This site is 23 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, 700 feet above sea level and consists of well-drained, fine sandy loam soils. Overall, 2016 was a warm year. 10% whole clusters, 90% destemmed into a temperature-controlled stainless steel tank. Used only Indigenous yeast and naturally occurring malolactic bacteria. 18 month cuvaison on skin contact and aged for 16 months on aged (1 to 4 years) french oak barrels. No fined or filtration was occurred before bottling. This wine focuses on balance, fruit flavors, and a ripe but restrained alcohol level at only 14.5%.
ARTIST LABEL: Cyrille Conan
ARTIST LABEL: Cyrille Conan
ARTIST LABEL: Cyrille Conan
A note from the artist: about the process of this work “……It was like a bolt of lightning... as soon as I painted out the negative shape of that sphere, I saw that it was a (good) cell that is reproducing itself. I would not have seen it if I had not had Bertil’s vision for Via Ottimista on my mind. There was a movement in my thought, and
A note from the artist: about the process of this work “……It was like a bolt of lightning... as soon as I painted out the negative shape of that sphere, I saw that it was a (good) cell that is reproducing itself. I would not have seen it if I had not had Bertil’s vision for Via Ottimista on my mind. There was a movement in my thought, and the idea became animated. It is a moment that I like most in the studio--to have hope that its going to work. It's completely"optimistic.”
Cyrille Conan was born in 1973 and grew up in Queens, NY to French immigrants. He is first generation American and is bilingual. He spent summers on his grandparent's farm in Brittany on and off until I was 18. He has dual-citizenship and identifies both as French and an American. This duality is apparent in his artwork. The graphic nature and grit of the work comes from growing up in NYC in the 80s and the love of nature distilled in him from spending summers in Brittany have transformed into this minimal, abstract street art.
Cyrille has been developing a vocabulary of various mark making, collage and textures to allow for the paintings to generate as honestly and intuitively as possible. Each layer informs and dictates the final composition until he finds a visual balance of form, color and repetition.
Cyrille graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Hartford Art School before planting his roots in Boston in 1998.
While his primary practice is still painting, he works in a variety of mediums and scales. He’s produced site-specific installations and murals in numerous states as well as local galleries and public spaces in Boston, including The Cyclorama, The MFA/Boston and City Hall. He currently works as a Preparator for the Design and Exhibition Department at the MFA/Boston.
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ARTIST LABEL: Cyrille Conan
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
Stephen Ross Dooley
Background: I grew up in the upper Midwest and call Minnesota “home”. My mother was a geography professor and dean, and I have two siblings. I attended Mankato State University and the University of California, Davis, to earn a degree in Enology. I spent 10 years making wine in the Napa Valley, two harvests “down under”
Stephen Ross Dooley
Background: I grew up in the upper Midwest and call Minnesota “home”. My mother was a geography professor and dean, and I have two siblings. I attended Mankato State University and the University of California, Davis, to earn a degree in Enology. I spent 10 years making wine in the Napa Valley, two harvests “down under” in South Africa and Australia, before coming to the Edna Valley, where I worked for others for seven years, and then launched Stephen Ross in 1994. I met Paula in 1989, married in 1995, and we have two incredible kids.
Wine Inspiration: Turning sunlight into wine – I get to make it, and yet it makes itself – all part of the science, artistry, agriculture, and magic of winemaking. Really, it is all I ever wanted to do. Hobbies: Drinking good wine and enjoying good food, woodworking, running, swimming and gardening.What I Do: It would be easier to say “What I don’t do at the winery.” You name it, I do it; from winemaking to wineglass polishing…
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2018
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2018
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
Every time you open a bottle of wine from The Black Donkey Project, you help us come closer to a cure for pediatric cancer.
www.teampathtothecure.org
When a child gets sick, a life that was once viewed as having limitless potential, suddenly has boundaries. Tomorrow isn't a sure thing. Their eyes can lose that lifetime of hope that every
Every time you open a bottle of wine from The Black Donkey Project, you help us come closer to a cure for pediatric cancer.
www.teampathtothecure.org
When a child gets sick, a life that was once viewed as having limitless potential, suddenly has boundaries. Tomorrow isn't a sure thing. Their eyes can lose that lifetime of hope that every child needs and deserves. We are committed to helping pediatric oncology efforts so that these kids' potential can be realized.
Treating and curing cancer is a team effort. Patients, families, friends, doctors, nurses, hospital support staff and the community at large are among the critical members that impact our ability to beat this terrible disease. We've formed a team called Path to the Cure that includes dedicated individuals from various sectors of the Boston health and well-being sectors. While we all have our own personal reasons for participating in the PMC, we are all dedicated to doing our part to help patients like Olivia, Emily and CJ, our Pedal Partners. Our team is riding for these amazing kids, with the hope that someday, others won't have to go through what they have. But, we need your help. Please contribute generously. All money we raise will go directly to Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Dana Farber to help kids like Olivia, Emily and CJ realize their full potential.
VIA OTTIMISTA
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2018
VIA OTTIMISTA
via
[vahy-uh, vee-uh] preposition 1. by a route that touches or passes through; by way of: to cure children via good action.
ottimista
[op-tuh-mist] noun 1. an optimistic person. 2. a person who holds the belief or the doctrine of optimism.
2019
VIA OTTIMISTA Cabernet Franc 2017
ARTIST LABEL: Robin Evans Smith
ARTIST LABEL: Robin Evans Smith
Via Ottimista, Cabernet Franc 2017, McCoy Vineyard, Fountainegrove District,
Sonoma County, CA
This is an extraordinary, medium-to full bodied red wine, loved for its savory, bell pepper-like flavors, medium natural spiciness and medium-high acidity with mouthwatering taste. It is anideal food pairing wine for your summer outdoor dinners,
Via Ottimista, Cabernet Franc 2017, McCoy Vineyard, Fountainegrove District,
Sonoma County, CA
This is an extraordinary, medium-to full bodied red wine, loved for its savory, bell pepper-like flavors, medium natural spiciness and medium-high acidity with mouthwatering taste. It is anideal food pairing wine for your summer outdoor dinners, events, and cocktail time. This wine will never disappoint you, it will please Cabernet drinkers, but will not ignore those looking for less bulkiness and amore complex, but soft, approachable taste.
TAFT STREET
A GARAGE CRAFTED WINERY
With a strong sense of place and of family, we continue in the garagistes traditions, producing limited production, handcrafted wines from select California vineyards.
We continue to live, work, and have fun in Sonoma County. As family-owned and independently operated, we look forward another 30 exciting years.
ARTIST LABEL: Robin Evans Smith
ARTIST LABEL: Robin Evans Smith
ARTIST LABEL: Robin Evans Smith
because this year this wine honors all the generosity of Women. Because Women care and take care, because without Women this world will not exist. I decided to have this wine made in collaboration with the talented and kind Winemaker Melissa Kuhn from Taft Street Winery, and With a fabulous and precious label made from a painting of Robi
because this year this wine honors all the generosity of Women. Because Women care and take care, because without Women this world will not exist. I decided to have this wine made in collaboration with the talented and kind Winemaker Melissa Kuhn from Taft Street Winery, and With a fabulous and precious label made from a painting of Robin Evans Smith, a multi-media, accomplished artist from Jackson-Mississippi, who gives her incredible personal interpretation of “Via Ottimista”.
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
ARTIST LABEL: Robin Evans Smith
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
WINEMAKER MELISSA KUHN
After moving to Sonoma County in 2005, Melissa decided to transfer her environmental laboratory skills to the wine industry. She fell in love with the wine industry after working as a lab intern and in 2006 took a permanent lab job at Owl Ridge Wine Services, a custom crush winery with over 30 clients producing Sono
WINEMAKER MELISSA KUHN
After moving to Sonoma County in 2005, Melissa decided to transfer her environmental laboratory skills to the wine industry. She fell in love with the wine industry after working as a lab intern and in 2006 took a permanent lab job at Owl Ridge Wine Services, a custom crush winery with over 30 clients producing Sonoma County wines.
In 2011, Melissa was promoted to Production Manager at Owl Ridge. Working directly under John Tierney, Taft Street’s first winemaker, she ran the winery’s day-to-day operations. In this role, Melissa was exposed to over 20 prominent Sonoma County winemakers including Anthony Austin, Hugh Chapelle, Kerry Damskey, Greg LaFollette, and Ginny Lambrix. By observing and executing their winemaking directions, Melissa learned various winemaking techniques.
Melissa is excited to use her winemaking knowledge to continue crafting outstanding wines as part of the Taft Street Family.
When not at the winery, she enjoys cooking, reading, hiking, kayaking, and camping with her husband and three adult children.
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2019
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2019
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
Every time you open a bottle of wine from The Black Donkey Project, you help us come closer to a cure for pediatric cancer.
www.teampathtothecure.org
When a child gets sick, a life that was once viewed as having limitless potential, suddenly has boundaries. Tomorrow isn't a sure thing. Their eyes can lose that lifetime of hope that every
Every time you open a bottle of wine from The Black Donkey Project, you help us come closer to a cure for pediatric cancer.
www.teampathtothecure.org
When a child gets sick, a life that was once viewed as having limitless potential, suddenly has boundaries. Tomorrow isn't a sure thing. Their eyes can lose that lifetime of hope that every child needs and deserves. We are committed to helping pediatric oncology efforts so that these kids' potential can be realized.
Treating and curing cancer is a team effort. Patients, families, friends, doctors, nurses, hospital support staff and the community at large are among the critical members that impact our ability to beat this terrible disease. We've formed a team called Path to the Cure that includes dedicated individuals from various sectors of the Boston health and well-being sectors. While we all have our own personal reasons for participating in the PMC, we are all dedicated to doing our part to help patients like Olivia, Emily and CJ, our Pedal Partners. Our team is riding for these amazing kids, with the hope that someday, others won't have to go through what they have. But, we need your help. Please contribute generously. All money we raise will go directly to Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Dana Farber to help kids like Olivia, Emily and CJ realize their full potential.
VIA OTTIMISTA
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2019
VIA OTTIMISTA
via
[vahy-uh, vee-uh] preposition 1. by a route that touches or passes through; by way of: to cure children via good action.
ottimista
[op-tuh-mist] noun 1. an optimistic person. 2. a person who holds the belief or the doctrine of optimism.
2020
ELPIS Viognier 2018
ARTIST LABEL: Zekiiko
ARTIST LABEL: Zekiiko
Elpis 2018
Viognier Skin Contact Reserve
Louise vineyard, Twelve Oaks Estate, Chehalem Mountains, Willamette Valley, OR
As with every project, I have chosen marginal grape varieties planted on various exceptional American wine terroirs. These grape varieties are examples of the resilience and determination of winemakers who believe in the
Elpis 2018
Viognier Skin Contact Reserve
Louise vineyard, Twelve Oaks Estate, Chehalem Mountains, Willamette Valley, OR
As with every project, I have chosen marginal grape varieties planted on various exceptional American wine terroirs. These grape varieties are examples of the resilience and determination of winemakers who believe in the quality of our common diversity in our country and in the importance of cultural diversity. This year, I offer to you a white wine from a region and terroir that normally stands out for its Pino Noir and Pino Gris, Carlton AVA in the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
When we started this onetime exclusive project, the Viognier was a secondary variety and ignored by consumers in this region. Two years later, viognier became the king of the new breeding grapes and was successfully migrated to Oregon. It is with the incredible talent of Thomas Houseman and the precious collaboration of the Anne Amie Vineyards that this wine has been raised with love for you over the past 18 months. This wine is truly one of a kind, produced only in 2018 by this style, with a very limited edition of only 696 bottles produced (58 cases). Very clean visual of deep old yellow gold going to shiny orange reflections with hints of wood smoke. It features a straight and very present expressive nose of caramel, acacia honey and clover, Moroccan tangerine skin, fresh tarragon and white peppercorn. The mouth is voluptuous, round and creamy, giving way to the olfactory symphony previously described, with a well-balanced finish of Bartlett pear with honey, hot hazelnuts and old farm butter. Mature and ready to drink today as a medium body wine with a good aftertaste, it’s well balanced and has a harmonious acidity. No doubt this wine will age perfectly if you decide to keep it for years in order to discover the aging quality. A perfect wine for fall to raise our glass to “hope” for immediate action.
ARTIST LABEL: Zekiiko
ARTIST LABEL: Zekiiko
ARTIST LABEL: Zekiiko
The Rabbit Man (pencil on paper, 2020). ZEKIIZO is a young American multi-media artiste living in Cambridge. The representation of Elpis focuses on the resiliency and hope that all children encompass. In Greek mythology, the figure Elpis was the personification of the spirit of hope, often depicted as a young woman, carrying flowers or a cornucopia.
HOMAGE TO THE WINEMAKER
ARTIST LABEL: Zekiiko
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2020 NO KID HUNGRY
WINEMAKER
Thomas Houseman
Though he started his professional life as a modern dancer in New York City, Thomas Houseman is best known as one of the most respected winemakers in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. For the past 14 years he has been the head winemaker at Anne Amie Vineyards, an iconic Oregon wine. His wines are frequently featured and
WINEMAKER
Thomas Houseman
Though he started his professional life as a modern dancer in New York City, Thomas Houseman is best known as one of the most respected winemakers in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. For the past 14 years he has been the head winemaker at Anne Amie Vineyards, an iconic Oregon wine. His wines are frequently featured and highly rated in national publications including Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast,
The Vineyard
Anne Amie Vineyards is an estate vineyard in the rolling hills of the Yamhill-Carlton District and on the steep hillsides of the Chehalem Mountains, both nestled in Oregon’s verdant Willamette Valley. A LIVE certified, Salmon SafeCertified, Sustainable Life certified, winery. Established in 1999 by Dr. Robert Pamplin, one of Oregon’s most forward-thinking philanthropists and businessmen, Anne Amie Vineyard
https://www.instagram.com/zekiizart/?hl=en
is one of the most respected wineries in Willamette Valley for the outstanding quality of their wines.
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2020 NO KID HUNGRY
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2020 NO KID HUNGRY
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2020 NO KID HUNGRY
The Black Donkey Project (TBDP) is charitable organization founded by Bertil Jean-Chronberg has produced exceptional wine every year since 2016 to raise funds for children’s causes. For 2020, due to the urgency of the situation, TBDP has chosen to raise funds exclusively to fight child hunger in our state and our country.
No Kid Hungry is
The Black Donkey Project (TBDP) is charitable organization founded by Bertil Jean-Chronberg has produced exceptional wine every year since 2016 to raise funds for children’s causes. For 2020, due to the urgency of the situation, TBDP has chosen to raise funds exclusively to fight child hunger in our state and our country.
No Kid Hungry is a national nonprofit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. Chefs Cycle is a fundraising endurance event for No Kids Hungry, featuring award-winning chefs and members of the culinary community fighting hunger outside the kitchen. For the past six years, Chefs Cycle For No Kid Hungry has engaged culinary talents who want to push their limits by completing a three day, 300-mile ride. Team Real Food Boston is a local Chefs Cycle team, with members from the greater Boston culinary community led by Ed Doyle.
ELPIS
FUNDRAISING CAUSE 2020 NO KID HUNGRY
ELPIS
The representation of Elpis focuses on the resiliency and hope that all children encompass. In Greek mythology, the figure Elpis was the personification of the spirit of hope, often depicted as a young woman, carrying flowers or a cornucopia.
Purchase Now
Two wines, three opportunities to participate in a double shock action
Option 1 : $300
Purchase one mixed case of 6 white and 6 red (Total 12 bottles)
Option 2: $550
Purchase one case of each (12 bottles of white and 12 bottles of red)
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Option 3: Donate Only
donate to both cause with no purchase.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
In order to facilitate the transaction, one payment directly to me and I would make an equal donation to both foundations. You can pay me by Venmo, ApplePay, PayPal, or Bank Check.
(these sales are from personal fundraising action and can’t be related with Bonde fine wine Shope)
I'd like to limit deliveries this year to focus on opening Bonde, my new authors' wine and accessories store.
Your order will be available (by appointment only) at Bonde Fine Wine Shop in the heart of Harvard Square.
(you can park front of it for pickup)
INFO
Please contact me by email or text to reserve your wine
Venmo: Bertil-Jean-chronberg
Bertiljc@theblackdonkeyproject.com
617 501-1815
Paypal: @MrBertil
ApplePay: 6175011815
Check: Bonde Fine wine Shop
at: Fundraising 2021
54 Church Street, CAmbridge MA 02138
