Menu For Hope 2008

It's that most wonderful time of the year again! Not just the holidays, it's also time for A Menu for Hope! This is the fifth year of this project, in which members of the food and wine blogging community gather to raise money for food-related charities. The project was started by Chez Pim and again this year, we will be supporting the UN World Food Programme. With a special permission from the WFP, the funds raised by A Menu for Hope will be earmarked for the school lunch program in Lesotho, Africa.(Last year, almost $100,000 was raised!)

Pim explains the excellent reasons for supporting the school lunch program on her blog, and we think it's a great idea too! And here is our contribution...

We are pleased to be able to contribute a special vertical of our flagship blend, The Spaniard. If you win our prize, you will receive one bottle each of:

• 2002 Calaveras County The Spaniard (the first vintage)
• 2004 Calaveras County The Spaniard (we didn't make a 2003)
• 2005 Calaveras County The Spaniard (noticing a theme here yet?)
• 2006 Calaveras County The Spaniard (the current vintage)

You can bid on this bundle of Twisted Vertical Goodness (valued at $250) using Prize Code WB26 - and you can bid for all sorts of other cool stuff by following these easy instructions:

1. Choose a prize or prizes of your choice from our Menu for Hope at http://www.chezpim.com/blogs/2008/12/menu-for-hope-2.html

2. Go to the donation site at http://firstgiving.com/menuforhope5 and make a donation.

3. Please specify which prize(s) you'd like in the 'Personal Message' section in the donation form when confirming your donation. You must write-in how many tickets per prize, and please use the prize code. Each $10 you donate will give you one raffle ticket toward a prize of your choice. For example, a donation of $50 can be 2 tickets for WB01 and 3 tickets for WB26. Please write 2xWB01, 3xWB26.

4. If your company matches your charity donation, please check the box and fill in the information so we could claim the corporate match.

5. Please check the box to allow us to see your email address so that we could contact you in case you win. Your email address will not be shared with anyone.

Check back on Chez Pim (http://www.chezpim.com) on January 12th for the results of the raffle.

Comments

[Hank]

Winnah! I have drunk (and gotten drunk on) your wines with alarming regularity -- plus, my friend Adrienne grows your Parcel 17. Now, as it happens, I have won your raffle prize of the Spaniard! Woop! Woop!

Love the wine, but with this depression we got goin' on, I couldn't afford the scratch to buy the Spaniard. Now I get four bottles! Schweet...