Cleavage Creek Wines Fighting Breast Cancer One Bottle at a Time - Food

Cleavage Creek Wines Fighting Breast Cancer One Bottle at a Time - Food & Drink - FOXNews.com

Posted using ShareThis

Cleavage Creek

Budge Brown’s Nevada ranch provided the inspiration for his newest wine. “I got a creek running through the middle of two rounded hillsides. So, Cleavage Creek Wine. You know, it just really fit my ranch,” Brown says.  Wine is a serous business for 77-year-old Brown who owns several vineyards and a winery in the Napa Valley. His Cleavage Creek 2006 Napa Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, 2006 Reserve Petite Sirah and 2006 Tracy Hills Reserve Cabernet-Syrah are all award-winners, but special for more than that. Each label features a gorgeous, smiling woman. And every one of them is a breast-cancer survivor.

October marks the 25th anniversary of National Breast Cancer Awareness month, and “Cleavage Creek” is a tribute to the women who battle the disease every day, awing those around them with their courage and optimism. Brown put survivors on the label because he wanted them to know “that they are beautiful and loved.” Each woman’s story is told on the Cleavage Creek website, and Brown gives ten percent of gross sales to funding breast cancer research. “Not profits, because they can be off some years,” he says, “but 10 percent right off the top.”  Brown lost his beloved wife of forty-eight years, Arlene, in 2005 after a seven-year fight with breast cancer. He channeled his overwhelming grief and anger into something positive. “Wasn’t any grand plan,” he recalls. “It all just came together. A lot of wines have forgettable names, but people remember ‘Cleavage.’”

What a way to honor breast cancer survivors!  I think that this is absolutely amazing that someone would make the women on these bottles a symbol of defiance and retribution and survival to a disastrous, life altering and life threatening illness.  What a way to honor an illness that has been killing women in many colors and ages and ethnicities for ages.  This is the most wonderful thing I think I have heard in a while.  Life is so precious and these women fought the inevitable and survived to live and tell the story.  I have had women and men in my life die of cancer around me in the last 20 years and to see one or even hear of one survive this disgusting threat is absolutely wonderful.  To honor ones that have survived are also celebrating life and also in another way remembering the ones that passed from the fight and succumbed to the other side. 
 
I feel this way at this point in time as I have an aunt the 5th in My dad's side of the family as she was a previous cancer survivor 20 years ago, and now has stage four liver cancer that has spread so quick that they don't expect her to make it much longer.  I have watched that side of my family either die from depression and cancer and it is either physical pain and suffering or the most unbearable pain of mental illness.  I have off and on gotten off track on this path since school has started this semester thinking and second guessing myself with my grades wondering if this is truly what I need to be doing or if I am doing the right thing at my age of 38, I wonder if the depression for not doing so hot with my grades will take  me as I have suffered from it before or the cancer that may take me in years to come as I have the history.  This time of year is rough.
 
I think the celebration of life is the most amazing thing!  I know that when I know one of which I love is hurting from the disease it rips this tiny part of my heart and how I think, life is to short what of tomm?  I smoked for 17 years and quit last January and now the aftermath and healing and watching others wither away.  So he my hat is off to you cleavage creek!