Red Sox Charity Wine Event
Posted on May 12, 2010
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Yesterday I was lucky enough to be able to attend the unveiling of this year’s Red Sox charity wines. If you’re not familiar with how these charity wines work, they are named after an athlete and all proceeds go to a charity of the player’s choice. This year’s bottles were on display for the first time ever yesterday.
The Chardon-K is a light white wine named after Josh Beckett. Beckett wasn’t able to attend the launch because he “tweaked” his back swinging a bat the day before (he’s trying to get ready to hit his 3rd HR in a Red Sox uniform during interleague play.) Jason Oberle, the executive director of the Josh Beckett Foundation, was around to give a statement on Josh’s behalf. Money raised from the wine will go to the foundation and be used to help the community.
Ellsbury’s bottle, ZinfandEllsbury, was a heavy red wine. He hung around for a while and answered a ton of questions. The most important ones were about the charities he is helping out: Project Bread, The Ellsbury-Read Character Strength Project and the Navajo Relief Fund. Jacoby spoke a lot about the Navajo Relief Fund and how dire things are on the reservations. More than 40% of the people there are struggling in poverty, half of them don’t have jobs, and suicide is well above the national average. He was given a Navajo turquoise bracelet after he was done speaking and the whole thing was pretty heart-warming.
Everyone there was given a chance to try a glass (or six, in my case) of both kinds of wine. I thought that Beckett’s Chardon-K was better than the ZinfandEllsbury but my idea of a fancy drink is pouring a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon into a glass so don’t take my word for it. The best way to find out which wine you’ll like more is to snag a bottle of both. You’ll be helping out some worthy charities and even if you don’t like to drink you’ll still end up with a pretty sweet Sox souvenir.
Hit up your local packie (err.. liquor store?) soon or order a few bottles online. It’s worth it.
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Ian from Sox and Dawgs got a bunch of video from the event if you’re interested and we managed to get a clip of Jacoby talking as well.
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I don’t like wine but I’m going to get some to help the charities and have some souvenirs.
Hey Michael,
Was that you I met Tuesday near the stage with your girlfriend?
Peter
Baseball Reflections
Yes sir. It was good to meet you!