John Grochau

A couple of weeks ago, David Auker suffered a stroke while finishing up his daily morning fixed gear bike ride.

If you started racing in the last 8 years you probably don’t know David as he finally slowed down on the racing scene after 30+ years.

To put it simply, David is a legend in Oregon cycling. He has won pretty much everything there is to win including a National Cyclocross Championship. He was constantly innovating, altering and changing his equipment, his race food and especially his home sewn wool clothing. David was also a cycling mentor for me. David, his wife Sarah, and his son Brian have been a second family to me.

David has been in the ICU at OHSU Hospital for over two weeks and will remain in the hospital for a while. As you can imagine, this is very expensive, and insurance doesn’t cover everything.

I have my own business now; I make wine. I find myself in a position to help out the Auker Family and offer the cycling community a great value on a wine of mine:

The 2007 Cuvee des Amis Pinot Noir is a blend of my best barrels of Pinot Noir from the 2007 vintage. “Cuvee des Amis” means “Friends Blend” and is homage to my friends who financially helped me make my first wine. This wine usually retails for $36, and I have just over 1,000 bottles left of this wine.

For the month of December, I am offering this wine as a benefit to the Auker Family.

The 2007 Cuvee des Amis is $20.00 a bottle.
$5.50 of every bottle sold goes to the Auker family to help pay for medical bills.

Here is a link to a google doc order form:
https://docs0.google.com/document/d/16ljPV3-w7HA-s_vDDcBC39xCe-27ixYeCiX1ILltcmo/edit?hl=en&authkey=CI_-w-gK#

You can fax it, email it, or just bring it to the winery conveniently located in NW Portland. To make things easy I request that you please send the form in advance of picking up the wine.

Feel free to forward this to anybody you think would want to help David or who just wants a great deal on a great wine.

John Grochau

Grochau Cellars
2621 NW 30th Ave
Portland, OR 97210

p. 503-522-2455
f. 503-286-0560