Charity Begins With A Bottle - Epicure Magazine (The Age)

Fundraising wine - those words are enough to strike fear into the heart of many a wine lover, supporting a good cause but confident that what's in those bottles will be barely drinkable.

Filmaker David Laity knew this. A beer drinker and home brewer, he developed a taste for fine wine living in the Yarra Valley. So when he looked for a way to give back to charities that helped him after he lost everything including all his films in the Black Saturday bushfires, wine - that is, good wine - seemed an obvious choice.