Says Nederburg Auction Manager Dalene Steyn, “The 2015 Charity Auction raised R257 500, an impressive 23% increase on last year’s total. The money raised this year will go to two incredibly worthy community-oriented organisations that are directly influencing the quality of life of people living in the areas in which they operate.”
Since 2007, Hope Through Action has been using the power of sport – and more recently, arts programmes – to change lives, bring hope and release potential. And this remarkable non-profit organisation does it by helping young South Africans develop positive life skills, physical ability and confidence, and by equipping them with the tools they need to cope with difficult realities. www.hopethroughaction.com.
The Breytenbach Centre is a multidisciplinary cultural centre for training and engaging with visual arts, music, drama and creative writing. The centre’s drama project – storytelling through the art of puppetry – sees drama groups from the centre visiting the youth at various schools and farms in the Boland area, where, through a combination of puppetry and theatre, issues such as hygiene, peer pressure, drugs and alcohol abuse are addressed. www.breytenbachsentrum.co.za.
Fifteen items went under the hammer at this year’s Charity Auction. Charity auctioneer, Roland Peens, the director of Wine Cellar for more than a decade and an experienced wine merchant, really got the room going and encouraged some enthusiastic bidding. Items sold included: a Chateau Lafite-Rothschild Pauillac 1937, possibly the rarest wine ever auctioned in South Africa, which was purchased for R30 000 by Hratch Djerrahian of the Garabedian Group; and two bottles of the maiden vintage GS Cabernet 1966, a wine widely regarded as the best ever Cabernet produced in South Africa, bought for R33 000 by Dawid Justus. Both lots were donated from the Distell Tabernacle.
A special late entry by British wine expert and Auction guest speaker, Robert Joseph, a signed copy of his book Bordeaux And Its Wines, together with two bottles of wines from the chateaux recommended in the book – Chateaux Pichon-Longueville Pauillac 2009 and Chateaux Luduiraut Sauterness 2007 – fetched R12 000. The set was purchased by Gideon Wahl.
A detailed summary of the 2015 Nederburg Auction charity sale can be downloaded here.