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rounded by the Zweigeltrebe variety, which
not only makes the customer happy but above
all helps to make one child happier. In the whi-
te version it was Rhine Riesling, dry. Thanks to
this wine, thanks to charitable events, thanks
to the European Order of the Knights of Wine
and thanks to many of our partners, we have
gradually accumulated so much money that
Sabinka can rehabilitate every week and go
to the spa at least twice a year. She is making
great progress.
Over time, Sabinka became our „sun“, always
smiling, in a good mood with her arms open
for cuddling. We are in frequent personal con-
tact with her; she often comes to see us and
taste some grape juice (she can’t taste wine, of
course) during the grape harvest.
Our help is long-term and has never been
motivated by the gain of media popularity.
However, the media coverage of our charita-
ble initiative helps fundraising and obtaining
additional funds. That‘s why we don‘t resist it.
We were surprised how many people know
about Sabinka and associate the Ludwig wine-
ry with charitable activities.
Raise a Glass Foundation

Peter Parts
Interim Director RIT Venture Creations Incubator, for 32 years
Founder and CEO of Peter Parts Electronics with customers in
14 countries, creator of a stellar vendor supply base in Japan,
Korea, Taiwan, HK, China, Malaysia, Viet Nam, and India. His
whole life is supporting a charity as member or chairman of
different charity entities. Actually member of Board of Raise
a Glass Foundation and InterVol at Rochester Regional Health.
Chairman of Great American International Wine Competition.

It all started 25 years ago when a group of wine enough to sufficiently make sure that the
charitable volunteers got together to form best wine could be judged in case there were any

a not for profit to help charities in great need. It wine faults or broken bottles. This often-left uno-
was a simple idea related to wine competitions. pened bottles that this group put to use. These
Since four bottles of wine were entered with the bottles were then sorted, cleaned, and donated
wine competition entry so that there would be to charities that had the greatest need and made
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