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Jose Reyes, Johan Santana and Brian Schneider have teamed up with Charity Wines to raise money for a variety of worthy causes, according to a press release from Clos LaChance Winery & Estate Vineyard located in San Martin, CA.
Reyes, Santana and Schneider join Curt Schilling, Manny Ramirez, Jorge Posada and Bobby Abreu, among other players, by lending their name and image to the bottle, creating CaberReyes (which will benefit the Major League Baseball Players Trust), Santana’s Select (benefiting The Johan Santana Foundation), and Schneider Schardonnay (benefiting The Catching for Kids Foundation).
Wines will be available in retail shops all across the Tri-State area starting mid-May and are expected to sell for $13.
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CaberReyes?! Awesome. I love it.
Too Bad F-MART cant have his for another 5 years!!
Bottoms up!
they better be selling the schneider bottles at half price. nobody will touch em with santana and reyes sitting right there.
well, unless you want white wine.
I’m suprised there is no “David WrightWine.”
He already has his own line of “Pimp Jiuce”
So, Johan’s wine . . . is it a white or red? From the photo, I’d say it’s a red, but what grape? Merlot?
I hope they’re available around Albany.
I’m thinking a Merlot, Cab. Sauvignon and Franc mix for red table wine.
It’s probably a Merlot. When the Red Sox did it, they had Schilling Schardonnay, Caberknuckle (Wakefield), and Manny Being Merlot.
Johan Santana Presents…
“Santana’s Select Merlot”
2006 Merlot, San Martin, California
Benefiting The Johan Santana Foundation
The color of this wine is intense—deep ruby purple. Aromas of ripe plums, smoky berry fruits and spice. Juicy red currant flavors on the entry, followed with rich, red cherry, black cherry and blackberry flavors extending to the mid-palate. A long finish with spicy oak and velvety fruit. Soft, lush and colorful!
Proceeds from Santana’s Select support The Johan Santana Foundation, funding worthy programs that focus on education and healthcare domestically and abroad. In the past, Johan has underwritten community based initiatives which educate and counsel youth on health related issues, and has also provided critical funding for melanoma research with the goal of eradicating this deadly disease.
is this a joke!?
Who cares about the wine … As long as they’re opening some champagne come October !
I tastes so good when it hits your lips!
so tingley
anyone?
Hopefully they start drinking it in the clubhouse before and after games. Get back to the good old days of the mid 80’s where everyone was playing with bloodshot eyes and hangovers.
That’s what this team needs, some personality.
perhaps take dock ellis’ lead and throw some LSD in John Maine’s cap.
LOL, I hope they don’t.
But that brings up the topic of Doc Gooden. And for anyone interested, there’s a terrific article in the NY Post today by Kiernan on what Doc is up to now. It doesn’t sound as gloomy as the picture Klapisch painted just a week or two ago when he did a piece on Straw.
Why was he gloomy about Straw? A week ago Straw was smiling at Mets camp, working with the hitters, signing autographs and sharing photo ops with Torre and Mattingly. As far as I know he’s been trying to do a lot of good community work for the last few years.
Klapisch did a piece on Straw which was positive. But in that piece they talked about Gooden and it was mentioned that both Negron and Straw reached out to Doc during the last year and were brushed off and Klapisch suggested that Doc had fallen off the deep end and was currently in a bad state. Kiernan paints a different picture. What’s realtiy? Who knows with Doc, but lets hope it’s closer to what Kiernan says..
Go to Klapisch’s archives at the North Bergen website and you can probably still find that Straw piece. You’ll see what I mean.
Here’s the Klapisch article:
northjersey.com/sports/mets/Gooden_is_out_of_control.html
This is a dream come true for me…. Wine and The Mets are my two favorite Things in the world!!
Me too…though I am skeptical the combo will be all that good.
Couldn’t agree more Sam. We need one giant brawl to bond the team -I’ve been saying that since 2006. The team comes off as soft.
Also, to the casual (read: ignorant) fan it appears as if they have a bunch of Latinos so they should all get along. The reality is they are all from different countries with different politics amongst them.
Teams hated the late 80s hated Mets because they were rugged and liked to fight. Teams hated the 2006 Mets because we did dances on the duggout – not quite the same.
Hell, sign me up and I’ll stab them with my shark necklace.
Fighting helped the Mets in ‘86, but so did having probably the best #1-#4 pitchers in baseball and a great back-end of the bullpen.
I would rather see the pitching be ‘86 like than the brawling.
yea cus fighting really got them fired up for the last game of 07.
Shark necklace? Is this Turk Wendell? ;)
(Yeah, I know Turk’s necklace was animal claws and teeth…close enough!)
Alou should have had a wine, his appearances are just like a fine wine, they get better but more rare over time.
hehe, hey whatever happened to points guy?
I agree. Alou and El Duque should have their own wines. But you wouldn’t ever drink those wines; you’d just put them on a shelf and watch them age :)
Haha, nice.
D’oh!
which of the 3 doesn’t belong?
The one “which will benefit the Major League Baseball Players Trust”
obviously!
Jose, pick a charity already!
slow day at metsblog
I can’t believe the idiocy on this website.
^^^
Meaning, the comments some of you people make.
Tom Seaver’s first crop is supposed to be due out this year. Would be sweet to have that to toast a championship.
In case anyone’s wondering, Seaver actually didn’t want his wine to be sold under the label of “Seaver.” He thought it would (ironically) sound like too much of a tie-in to baseball. So, for those of you who will be looking (in vain) for Tom’s wine label, it’s “GTS.” Why GTS? Simple, they’re his initials: George Thomas Seaver.
I wish it was beer