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THANK YOU to all who attended the Wine and Roses Festival™ on April 19, 2008! Our first annual event was a wonderful evening to be long remembered. Special thanks go to Stevens Construction Corp. as well as our generous sponsors, donors and vineyard guests (see below). Of course, we are also very grateful to those who attended - thank you for your support and generosity. All of you are helping a great number of people by supporting the services and activities of the Alzheimer's Association.

Vineyard guests:

Thank you to the following sponsors of the
Wine and Roses Festival™

CHAMPAGNE SPONSOR 

 
 PINOT NOIR SPONSOR
 
CHARDONNAY SPONSOR 
 
SAUVIGNON BLANC SPONSOR 
CABERNET SPONSORS 
Anchor Bank    
     

Stickney and McIlwain with Lincoln Financial Advisors 

HONORARY SPONSOR 
Flad & Associates 

Brookdale Senior Living

IN-KIND DONORS 
Anchor Bank   Advertisers Press Madison Concourse Hotel 

 Tom Morris Ltd.

   

Contact Miriam Boegel, Director of Development, at 608.232.3409 or 800.272.3900 if you have any questions or are interested in the 2009 event.

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Trivia answer keys

Wine Trivia Quiz
  1. The standard bottle is generally 750 milliliter, or about 25 fluid ounces.
  2. 12
  3. About 2 1/2 pounds
    4.
  4. About 800
    5.
  5. Newer oak barrels will often leave a hint of vanilla in the wine's aroma and flavor
  6. Mid-1800's
  7. Over 10,000!
  8. Over 17 million gallons!
  9. Approximately 85
  10. 60
  11. 400
  12. The Mesopotamians are credited with producing the first wines in about 6000 B.C.

Wine Proverbs
  1. Friends
  2. Heaven
    3.
  3. Praises
    4.
  4. Drunkenness
    5.
  5. Burgundy, Champagne, claret
    6.
  6. Poor relations
    7.
  7. Water, heart
    8.
  8. Doctors
    9.
  9. Thirst
    10.
  10. Barrel, saints
    11.
  11. Soup, doctor
    12.
  12. Purse, stomach
    13.
  13. Sleep, sin, sin, saved, wine, saved
    14.
  14. Hope

Rose Trivia
  1. Georgia, Iowa, New York, North Dakota and the District of Columbia
  2. June
    3.
  3. More than 50 times
    4.
  4. 60% are grown in California
    5.
  5. Portland, OR is known as the Rose City
    6.
  6. Josephine, wife of Napolean Bonaparte of France
    7.
  7. The United States of America
    8.
  8. Dolly's rose is orange-red
    9.
  9. The white rose is linked to reverence, humility, death, purity, innocence, and the Virgin Mary
    10.
  10. Archeologists have discovered fossilized wild roses that are over 40 million years old
    11.
  11. The French explorer Samuel deChaplain brought the first cultivated roses to the U.S.
    12.
  12. The oldest living rose may be 1,000 years old, still blooming on the wall of the Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany
    13.
  13. The red rose is linked to passion, romance, celebration, sacrifice, the blood of Christ
    14.
  14. The rosebud indicates beauty, youth, and an innocent heart
    15.
  15. The rose hips (left on the plant after roses finish blooming) is richer in vitamin C than virtually any other fruit or vegetable

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