Sporting Wine Club & My Name’5 Doddie Foundation Launch Fundraising Wine
Sporting Wine Club has partnered with the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation to launch a new wine which will raise funds for the charity.
The initiative will see the organisation partner with Kenny Logan’s Logan Sports Marketing and Saracens player Schalk Burger’s Welbedacht Estate winery in South Africa to launch a Bordeaux blend with five grape varieties, representing Weir’s number 5 shirt.
The wine will raise money for the charity which aids research into the causes of Motor Neurone Disease, enabling scientists to investigate potential cures, as well as making grants to individuals suffering from the disease to enable them to live as fulfilled a life as possible. Weir, a former Scotland international with 61 caps, is currently suffering from MND.
The label of the wine was designed by renowned mouth painter and former Saracens academy player, Henry Fraser, who took up mouth painting after a freak accident in 2009 left him paralysed from the shoulders down.
“Sometimes in life we get a chance to do something really special and for our small company that moment has arrived,” said Simon Halliday, Founder, Sporting Wine Club.
“Doddie Weir is not only a legendary Scottish Rugby International and British and Irish Lion, he is also one of the Sport’s great characters.
“Doddie has a huge history with the British and Irish Lions and by the time the tour takes place in July we will all be ready to raise a glass to him and his incredible charity whether at home or abroad.”
The wine is available to purchase from Sporting Wine Club, a Supporting Partner of the Sport Industry Awards 2021, with all profits from each bottle going directly to the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation.
