The 2026 “Everyone Wins” Cork Pulls:

big breaking news: All $300 corks are gone!!!

only 1 $200 cork left!

we’ve reached over 87% of our goal!!!

Thanks to those of you who purchased most of the 60 $100 packages!

Hopefully, the handful left will be purchased so we can meet our goal of providing those entering university and in university with a $500 one-time award to congratulate them for continuing to pursue their education.

New!!! $50/cork packages!!!

We took some of the wines in the remaining $100/cork packages and created new $50/cork packages from them. Each package contains 4 wines whose total retail value is way more than twice the $50 you donate (meaning, each package is worth way over $100).

To purchase a $50 cork, just follow the instruction below on how to purchase corks. And, to view the $50 packages, just click on the button at the end to check them out.

BECAUSE SQUARESPACE APPARENTLY DOESN’T ALLOW US TO MODIFY PREVIOUS CHANGES, PLEASE USE THE COMMENTS SECTION TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN MULTIPLE PURCHASES OF $50 CORKS (e.g. purchasing 2 $50 corks for $100 OR PURCHASING A $100 CORK INSTEAD.)

We admit, as, well, senior citizens (we all get older, but we should never get old!), programming with this Squarespace can be a challenge. Any and all attempts at forgiveness graciously accepted.

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the most generous wine donations ever!

We received the most wine donations ever by far this year: over 660 bottles! And, we want to pass this generosity on to you and to our Doris Dillon School students and university alumni.

New university education initiative

If we can sell every cork, we will be able to provide a one-time $500 ‘award’ to the 26 high school seniors from our Advanced Computer and Advanced English after-school classes and to the young women in university who received scholarships from 7th-12th grade.

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Highlights of all packages

Every package is worth well over two times its retail value
Every $100/cork, $200/cork, and $300/cork package includes six wines
Four #1 Wines in the World
One #1 Whiskey of the Year
How to purchase your corks
1. Click on the “Click here…” button below
2. Choose the total amount of your purchases (e.g., if you are buying 2 $50 corks and 1 $100 cork, then your total amount would be $200)
3. Then, in the box “Please tell us how many $100 corks and/or $200 corks, you are purchasing”, please list how many of each cork package you are purchasing (e.g., 2 $50 corks. 1 $100 cork) NOTE: we can’t change the verbiage to accommodate the NEW $50 corks….
4. Click on the button “Click here to buy $100, $200, and $300 corks). NOTE: we can’t change this button to add in “to buy $50 corks…)
5. If you are paying by credit card, click on “More payment options”
6. On the next page, enter your email address so you can receive a payment receipt.
7. If using a credit card, fill in all of the required boxes and click “Continue”.

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NOTE: WE WILL USE AN ONLINE RANDOMIZER TO AWARD THE $100/CORK, $200/CORK, and $300/CORK PACKAGES TO YOU. Thus, the alphabetized ($200 corks) and numbered ($100 corks and $300 corks) order shown in the lists will not correspond to the order drawn by the computer.

EACH OF YOU WHO PURCHASE CORKS HAS AN EQUAL CHANCE TO RECEIVE THE MOST COVETED PACKAGES!

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ALL WINE PACKAGES WILL BE AVAILABLE TO PICK UP AT OUR FREE THANK-YOU GALA ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26th FROM 4-7PM AT THE ALMADEN GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB.

Those who purchase corks in our pre-sale but cannot attend will have their package(s) delivered to them by us after the gala.

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Special thanks to Chris Maher of VinVision Trucking:

For many years, Chris has arranged significant donations of wine. This year, he outdid himself, arranging donations of 288 BOTTLES OF WINE from friends in the industry. Chris’ wife is from Thailand and they have a great desire to help the poor in Cambodia.

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Special thanks to the following wineries who donated a case or more of wine:

Cinquain (Beth & Dave Nagengast: case)
Testarossa (Diana Jensen: case)
Turning Tide: (Alisa Jacobsen: 3 cases!)
Husch (June Hayes, Zac Robinson: 4 cases!)
Villa Balestra (Didier Sayeh: case)
Mercury Wines (Brad Beard: case)
Cattleya (Bibiana Gonzalez Rave: case)
Pisoni (Lucy/Lucia) Mark & Jeff Pisoni: case)
La Honda (Danielle Dubois: 2 cases)
Lester Estate (Amy Doherty: case)
Morgan Winery (Jackie Lee, Donna Lee: case)
Revealed (Sean Best: case)
Lynmar Estate (Lynn & Anisya Fritz: 2 cases)
Ketcham Estate (Allie Ketcham: 2 cases)
Storrs (Pamela Storrs: case)
Hitching Post (Frank Ostini, Gray Hartley: 4 cases!)
Soquel Vineyards (Peter Bargetto: case)
Alexander Valley Vineyard (Harry Wetzel IV: case)
Alfaro Family Vineyards (Richard Alfaro: 2 cases )
Spicy Vines (Crystalyn Hoffman: case)
Mcprice Myers (Liz Gillingham: case)
Barr Estate (Teely & Greg Barr: case)
Cass (Bryan Cass: case)
Lucid Winery: (Kevin Luther: case)
Four Lanterns: (Steve & Jackie Gleason: case)
Florence Winery: Jack Florence: case)
Morgan: (Donna Lee: case)
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And big big thanks everyone who stored all of this year’s wine donations: Lynn Ward, who stored the most for the longest, our Paso friends and growers Marlowe and Corrine Evenson who stored many cases of donated Paso wine, and Aravind Krishnaswamy and Kim Trang who stored many cases as well.