Vinomofo unveils Homeless Grapes Project with a Hunter Valley semillon
Wineries in the Hunter Valley have band together to produce a semillon for a good cause. Vinomofo’s Homeless Grapes Project will see 100 per cent of proceeds donated to OzHarvest in Newcastle.
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Everybody loves to drink wine right? Well why not drink it for a good cause.
Online wine retailer Vinomofo has this week unveiled the next vintage of its Homeless Grapes series, right here in the Hunter Valley.
Earlier this year, hundreds of locals joined in on a community grape picking event at Dalwood Estate in the Hunter Valley to produce a delicious local semillon.
That semillon can now be bought, with 100 per cent of the proceeds from the sale of the wine being donated to OzHarvest in Newcastle.
Charlotte Cels, head of development and buyer at Vinomofo, said they started the project about five years ago.
“We started the project in McClaren Vale and it’s just evolved so much,” she said.
“This year we took it to four different regions, one of which was the Hunter Valley and we had an awesome community come out to the vineyard and picked an enormous amount of grapes.
“We had five wineries donate to the cause including Dalwood Estate, Margan, David Hook, De Iuliis, Brokenwood and Hungerford Hill.”
Vinomofo is aiming to raise close to 70 thousand dollars for OzHarvest.
“It is a huge amount for them and they can do so much with that,” Ms Cels said.
“It is a national issue homelessness, it is a global issue, but to be able to spread that across different businesses to support those in need is an awesome thing.
“It was really an eye opener for us to discover that the Hunter and Newcastle had such a high amount of people who were without a home.”
Six bottles of the semillon will provide 300 meals to vulnerable men, women and children right across Australia, the full cases from the vintage set to provide more than 150 thousand meals to those in needs.
Clean and fresh with notes of lemon zest, talc, slatey minerality and grapefruit pith, it’s a cracking wine, ready for purchase.
“It is a really great example of what the Hunter Valley can do with semillon,” Ms Cels added.
“We all drink it so may as well raise some money at the same time.”
The Homeless Grapes Project Hunter Valley Semillon is available exclusively through www.vinomofo.com for $25 per bottle, sold in a case of six.
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