What is Corks for Kids?

A two-day dinner and wine-tasting event featuring winemakers from Australia, New Zealand, Oregon and Spain with the goal of raising $100,000 for the North Carolina Children’s Hospital located in Chapel Hill. Winemaker Dinners will be held on Friday, September 24th. The main event will be held at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill on Saturday, September 25th. The main tasting will feature over 60 wines, as well as a silent and live auction. Wines featured at both days of the event will be available for purchase. All proceeds from the event and sales of the wines will go to the Children’s Hospital. Over the past four years we have raised nearly $250,000!

Why is this important?

Her name is Lily Mae - my beautiful redheaded daughter. She and her Mom are alive today thanks to the North Carolina Children’s Hospital. And since my wife works there, I have gotten to hear about the other amazing things they do and the lives they touch. Kids come from all over the state to receive the best health care around - regardless of their ability to pay or the complexity of the care that is needed. But if it is the state’s Children’s Hospital, why do they need our help? Can’t they just go to the state for more money? If only it were that simple.

Certainly, the state provides a portion of the hospital’s budget. But that goes to cover the bare minimum – the basics that keep the lights on and the place running. What the state doesn’t do is provide the funds needed to attract world-class physicians and staff or to initiate innovative research and care programs. The challenge is to find a way that allows the Hospital to be innovative and develop programs beyond what's afforded from patients' limited insurance and uncompensated care to children statewide.

Simply stated, much of the additional personnel and equipment they need to develop new and innovative programs are not available from the financial resources they have. That’s where Corks for Kids comes in.

 

 

TWO DAYS OF WINE TASTING EVENTS TO BENEFIT
NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Friday, September 24th
Winemaker Dinners

ACME Winemaker Dinner
110 East Main Street in Carrboro

BIN 54 Restaurant
Highway 54 in Chapel Hill

Tickets are $150 per person (plus tax and gratuity)

At the dinner you will be seated at a table of 8 people with one winemaker from seated with winemakers from Australia, New Zealand, Oregon or Spain - yep! We're going global this year!

There is no other dinner offered in the state that gives you this kind of intimate experience. A few hours of food, wine and fun all with intimate conversation with some incredible winemakers!

Bin 54 SOLD OUT

ACME

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The Main Event

Saturday, September 25th
7:00 - 10.00pm

At the Friday Center in Chapel Hill
(located on Route 54 just south of Interstate 40 off exit 273)


Tickets are
$65 per person

• Winemakers from Australia, New Zealand, Oregon
  or Spain
• Over 60 wines from around the world will be
  tasted
• Silent and Live auction with collectible wines,
  sporting event tickets, etc
• All wines for sale with 100% of the proceeds
  going to the Children’s Hospital
• Wines tasted average retail - $35!!!
• Hors d’oeuvres
• $45 of your ticket is tax-deductible

Now, if this isn’t the biggest win-win opportunity to give to charity, I don’t know what is. All you have to do is come, drink a bunch of killer wine, hang out with friends, and buy your favorites at a big discount. At $65, this is a steal of a tasting. The average retail on the wines is $35. You can taste over $2000 worth of wine for $65!!! Not bad.