This week a new and unique wine club has been started in Maryland. The wine club, Vintners Charitable Cooperative, focuses on a connection between boutique wineries and charity.

Vintners Charitable Cooperative is the brainstorm of Mackie Barch. The goal of this unique wine club is to promote small boutique wineries and help charitable causes. Currently the charity partner is “Reach Out and Read.” Winery partners are Chappellet, Dovetail Vineyards, and D’Argenzio Winery.

It is interesting to note that the wine club has been set up in Maryland, a state that does not allow direct shipping. The cooperative is able to do this because the current participating wineries from California ship the wine. Currently the wine club is able to send to more than 30 states and Maryland is not one of them.

For an article about the Vintners Charitable Cooperative, read “Area resident sets up wine, nonprofit cooperative” in a Maryland online community newspaper, Gazette.net.

To learn more, visit the Vintners Charitable Cooperative website.

Cheers! Kathy

Correction: I have since learned from Mackie Barch that while he lives in Maryland the Vintners Charitable Cooperative is actually based in DC.