We are running another wine drive for the Somaly Mam foundation. Below is a list of fantastic quality wines which we think you will all love.
You can purchase these by the ½ dozen ($70) or by the case ($120) and you can mix it up or buy the one variety.
We are pleased to be able to offer these fabulous wines to you at such a great price.
All profits generated will be going to support survivors of sex trafficking in Cambodia.
Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
Tasting Notes: A brilliant, pale straw green colour. Typical Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc aromas of passionfruit, melon and full of vigor. Flavours of passion fruit, melon and grapefruit are balanced by limey acidity and good fruit sweetness. The wine is well structured and tapers to a long, lingering finish.
Alcohol Content: 12.5%
Location: New Zealand
Vintage: 2010
Range: Boutique
Region: Marlborough
Sparkling
Tasting Notes: Light yellow, pale gold colour. Small delicate long lasting bubbles. Bouquet of apple and peach with delicate floral aromas. Rich and full bodied with long lasting fruit flavours and a clean, crisp finish. A balanced, elegant wine ideal as an aperitif.
Alcohol Content: 11%
Location: Southern France
Vintage: Non-Vintage
Range: Boutique.
Variety: French Brut
Region: Languedoc
Rose
Tasting Notes: Lifted floral aroma with strawberry and ripe cherry characters. Soft and fruity palate with ripe raspberry and cherry flavours. Rich midpalate with a crisp, clean finish.
Alcohol Content: 12.5%
Location: Victoria
Vintage: Non Vintage
Range: Boutique
Region: North West Victoria
Clare Valley Reisling
Tasting Notes: An elegant and stylish Riesling with distinctive citrus, musk stick and floral aromas. A soft rounded palate with lime and lemon flavours and a clean acid finish. This Riesling can be enjoyed as a fresh vibrant wine but has the ability to age gracefully into a toasty complex style with 3 - 6 years bottle age.
Alcohol Content: 12.5%
Location: South Australia
Vintage : 2010
Range: Boutique.
Region: Clare Valley
Cabernet Sauvignon
Tasting Notes: This wine shows dominance of spicy cabernet fruit, a dense ripeness with hints of smoky oak and grape tannin. A wine made to enjoy while the young, ripe but elegant, distinct Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon characters are evident. Barrel fermentation in French oak provided a balanced integration of oak and fruit.
Alcohol Content: 15.2%
Location: South Australia
Vintage: 2008
Range: Boutique
Region: Coonawarra
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon
Barossa Shiraz
Tasting notes: Sourced from mature vines in the Barossa Valley. The nose is full of black cherry, coffee, satsuma plums and star anise. Backed up by a rich, full bodied palate with soft tannins.
Alcohol Content: 13.8%
Location: South Australia
Vintage: 2009
Range Boutique
Region Barossa Valley
Variety Shiraz
Please contact Paige or Andy to place your orders for the wines before September 20th.
Born to a tribal minority family in the Mondulkiri province of Cambodia, Somaly Mam began life in extreme poverty. With limited options as a severely marginalized ethnic group, and living in unimaginable despair, her family often resorted to desperate means to survive. This confluence of dire circumstances led to the unspeakable horrors that would mark Somaly's early years. Somaly was sold into sexual slavery by a man who posed as her grandfather. To this day, due to the passing of time and the unreliability of a wounded memory, Somaly still does not know who this man was to her. Yet his actions set her on an unimaginable path fraught with danger, desperation, and ultimately...triumph.
Forced to work in a brothel along with other children, Somaly was brutally tortured and raped on a daily basis. One night, she was made to watch as her best friend was viciously murdered. Fearing she would meet that same fate, Somaly heroically escaped her captors and set about building a new life for herself. She vowed never to forget those left behind and has since dedicated her life to saving victims and empowering survivors.
In 1996, Somaly established a Cambodian non-governmental organization called AFESIP (Agir Pour les Femmes en Situation Precaire). Under Somaly's leadership, AFESIP employs a holistic approach that ensures victims not only escape their plight, but have the emotional and economic strength to face the future with hope. With the launch of The Somaly Mam Foundation in 2007, Somaly has established a funding vehicle to support anti-trafficking organizations and to provide victims and survivors with a platform from which their voices can be heard around the world.
For her tireless efforts, Somaly has justifiably garnered world-wide respect and is now a renowned leader at the forefront of the anti-trafficking struggle. Universally recognized as a visionary for her courage, dignity, ingenuity, and resilience, Somaly was honored as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2009 and was featured as a CNN Hero. She is also the recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC), Glamour Magazine's 2006 Woman of the Year Award, and has won accolades from the US Department of Homeland Security.
But Somaly's success has come at a price. She and her family have faced terrifying death threats and violence. Asked why she continues to fight in the face of such fierce and frightening opposition, Somaly resolutely responds, "I don't want to go without leaving a trace."
Despite the fact that she is known the world over and has certainly earned a life of luxury and repose, Somaly continues to lead a simple life and works hard in the Cambodian recovery centers, living among the women and children she rescues and staying by their side as they walk the difficult path to recovery and freedom.
