Grand Charity Dinner
| 13 October 2009
Well the site is now live – at long last. It’s a relief, and now the responsibility to keep it up to date begins. Although I mentioned this in the first entry below, special mention really does deserve to go to Philip Walsh of Terra Prime, who worked all sorts of hours to get this up in a short space of time. I hope this leads to some further work for him, he comes recommended.
I’d like to tell you about two related subjects. First is a charity dinner taking place on Saturday 31st October., with an eye-popping, jaw-dropping line up of wines. It’s organised by Keith Prothero, a keen wine enthusiast and philanthropist who lives part time in his native England, and part time in his adopted home, South Africa. There he has done a lot for a local charity Pebbles, which helps special needs children in South Africa.
This is the second year Keith has organised a ‘Grand Charity Dinner’, donating some rather amazing wines from his cellar. Places to this event are up for auction at the Wine Pages Forum. That’s the second thing I wanted to tell you about (already mentioned in 46 Hours at The Ledbury part 2: WIMPS Bordeaux Lunch) is the forum itself. Run by Scottish wine journalist Tom Cannavan, it provides a home for and has helped create the UK’s online wine community. Wine topics are discussed online, and numerous lunches and dinners are organised offline (called ‘offlines’). To bid on Keith’s Grand Charity Dinner you need to register at the forum. Doing so comes recommended anyway. I’ve made a lot of friends there over the years and you’ll find it a welcoming place to discuss wine.
This month’s other significant wine event – if I do say so myself! – will be my 30-vintage vertical of Vega Sicilia Unico. Held over two consecutive evenings in London – Tues 20th, Weds 21st Oct – it will offer an amazing depth of discovery oof this, Spain’s first growth. For details, please send me a note via the contact page.
