The 2012 Charity Wine Tasting Event

Come Join Us for an Enchanted Evening of Fine Wines from Around the World!

2012 marks the 11th anniversary of our Annual Charity Wine Tasting Event in Great Bend, Kansas! Mark your calendars for Friday, April 27, 2012 and plan on joining us for a fun event at the Club at Stone Ridge in Great Bend KS!

Details: The Catholic Social Service Charity Wine Tasting Event is scheduled for Friday, April 27, 2012 at the Club at Stone Ridge in Great Bend KS. Come sample wines from all over the world while enjoying hors d-oeuvres, the live entertainment of Classical Guitarist, Richard J Falcon Jr, and an enticing array of live and silent auction items. For a donation of $10 for one ticket, or $25 for three tickets, guests have a chance to win a complete wine cellar; click here to see the 50 different bottles of wine--worth $1000--that was taken away in 2011. Guests also have a chance to try their hand at the wine pull. A block of rooms will be reserved for out-of-town guests to stay overnight at the Best Western Angus Inn.

Tickets: Tickets for the Wine Tasting Event ($35 per person, or $250 for a table of eight) sold out for the first time last year but just about everyone on the waiting list had a chance to come.

Sponsors: We invite individuals, organizations and businesses to sponsor the 2012 Charity Wine Tasting Event so that more of the money raised goes directly to the people and programs who need it most. Click here for a list of 2012 Sponsors, and for information about how you can become a sponsor, too.

Auction: The 2012 Annual Charity Wine Tasting Event will include a live and silent auction with our auctioneer for the evening. Click here to view items that have been donated so far for the 2012 Charity Wine Tasting Event! The 2012 list of auction donors, and information about how to donate an auction item for the 2012 Charity Wine Tasting Event are available here.

Of Wine and Cheese: The pairing of fine artisan wines and cheeses is worthy of the highest appreciation. Click here to see why! The open air and spacious skies of the Midwestern Plains has nurtured more than two dozen Kansas vineyards and wineries, and our very own Alma Creamery, Home of the Famous Alma Cheese, in Alma KS. Click here for more information about three of the Kansas wineries who participated in the 2011 event. We had three different 2.5 lb logs of Alma Cheese (five each) for auction: Colby, Pepperjack, and Co-Jack, and a log of each for guests to sample from.

Wine Tasting 101:

Need a little brush up on your wine tasting skills? Watch this video for a refresher, and then make plans to come try out your skills at our Charity Wine Tasting Event!

Our Programs: We invite you to learn more about Catholic Charities, and Catholic Social Service. You play a critical role in helping us to provide much needed programs in our southwest Kansas communities including adoption services, support for teen mothers, pregnancy counseling, marriage and healthy relationship classes, addiction and recovery counseling, economic assistance, and disaster relief, such as we provided after the Greensburg tornado. Thank you for supporting Catholic Social Service!