This month, the Laguardia winery is linking its Gran Reserva 2016 and a blind wine-pairing dinner on Saturday, November 21, to our safe water projects in Ethiopia.
Eguren Ugarte, a family-run winery in Laguardia (Rioja Alavesa), has chosen Wine2Water as its November cause. It’s part of Las Causas de Vitorino, its charity wine program of twelve months, twelve wines and twelve causes, where each month one of its wines backs a different project. This month, the wine is its Gran Reserva 2016 and the project is safe water for rural communities in Ethiopia.
There are two ways to join in through the winery’s website. The first is the three-bottle charity pack of Gran Reserva 2016, at €90 including shipping. As with the rest of its program, Eguren Ugarte will give 20% of this wine’s sales in November to Wine2Water.
The second is the blind wine-pairing dinner on Saturday, November 21, at the winery itself: a blindfolded dinner with paired wines, a tasting menu, a night-time tour and live music, plus an optional bus from Logroño. Here too, 20% of the proceeds will go to Wine2Water. Places can be booked on the winery’s website.
Wine2Water: the wine sector joins forces for water in Ethiopia
Wine2Water is how we at Fundación ADS invite the wine sector to fund safe water wells in Ethiopia. Wineries, distributors, shops and professionals take part in whatever way suits them best: donating wine, linking a label from their range, making a financial contribution, organizing tastings and events, or spreading the word. Drilling and equipping a well costs €20,000. Contributions are pooled, and each well goes ahead once it is fully funded.
Water wells run by the community
At Fundación ADS we have been working in Ethiopia for more than twenty years and have already drilled 162 wells. We don’t work from a distance: we have our own office and technical team in the country, and every well starts with the community that will use it. Together with the community and the regional water office, we decide where to drill. The community provides the land and does the building work, and the well belongs to them.
It is looked after by a Water Committee that includes women. And we don’t leave once we hand it over: we stay alongside the community for at least three more years. Each well is designed so that 80 to 100 families have water less than half an hour from home for at least two decades.
Thank you, Eguren Ugarte, for choosing Wine2Water as your November cause. If your winery, shop or company would like to join, tell us how you’d like to get involved at wine2water.net.
