N.Y. winery introduces 9/11 memorial wine — just $19.11 a bottle
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A winery on Long Island has introduced two new wines to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. Before you start rolling your eyes, keep reading: It’s not (quite) as bad as you think.
The wines, produced by Lieb Family Cellars, are a 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Merlot, which the winery’s website says is barrel-fermented, and a 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Chardonnay, described as having a dominant flavor of fresh green apples and ‘finishing with a toasty vanilla flavor.’
They each retail for $19.11 a bottle if you buy directly from the winery. (The wine will cost more in stores.)
So, what makes these 9/11 wines besides the name and that silly price tag? Well, it’s not the winery’s proximity to the site of the attacks — although the descriptions of the wines do note that the grapes were grown ’90 miles from the site of the World Trade Center.’ Instead, the winery plans to give 6% to 10% of the proceeds from the sale of these wines to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
For those who try to keep their wine buying under $10 a bottle, the Lieb Family Cellars offers a less expensive bottle of wine called the September Mission Merlot. This bottle, which can be purchased only through the winery, costs $9.11 a bottle, and the winery donates 91.1 cents of every bottle to the September’s Mission foundation.
Yeah, it’s a little precious, but all for a good cause.
In a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times, Gary Madden, general manager of the winery, said sales of the 9/11 Memorial Commemorative wines have been off to a slow start, but the winery has had a lot of success with the September Mission Merlot, which it introduced in 2004.
‘We’ve probably donated $25,000 from that wine,’ he said.
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