The Virtual Poverty Bay Wine Festival is a fundraiser to help the local beneficiaries and events of Destination Des Moines and the Rotary Club of Des Moines and Normandy park. This is also a great way to support local wineries.
This core part of this event is the Facebook live that will be shown on March 27th at 4pm.
The Facebook live will feature 11 wineries who will give us virtual tastings of their wines and tours of their wineries. Not only that, but we will have wine experts teaching us about various aspects of viticulture in our area.
On this website is where you will be able to purchase wines before and during the event that the wineries will be giving us virtual tastings of.
More details to come soon.
Page Cellars
Palouse Winery
Cedar River Cellars
Love That Red Winery
Elsom Cellars
Patterson Cellars
Kontos Cellars
CR Sandidge
Kiona Vineyards
Efeste Wines
Treveri Cellars
While we do not have any direct sponsors for this event, there are many businesses and community members that have supported the good deeds of our two clubs.
Thank you to:
$20,000 - Highline Schools Foundation
$14,000 - Des Moines Area Food Bank
$5000 - Back to School Fair
$5000 - Abundance Project
$3000 - Des Moines Park and Rec
$4000 - Highline Exchange Club
$2000 - Choose 180 Foundation
$1500 - Lighthouse Family Ministries
$1500 - Coat Drive
$1000 - Genesis Project
$1000 - Harvest Against Hunger
$1000 - Seattle Taekwondo Foundation
$1000 - Highline Hospital Foundation
$1000 - Southwest Youth and Family Services
$1000 - Highline College
$1000 - Des Moines / Normandy Park restaurant
$500 - Safe Call Now
Fireworks Over Des Moines - July 3-4, Marina Beach Park
Running of the Flags - July 3-4, Beach Park Trail
Waterland Festival and Parade - July 23-26
Randy Hansen Concert - July 23, 6 - 11:30pm in the Auditorium
Children Events - July 23 - 25
Wooden Boat Show - July 24 - 25
Car Show - July 25
Art in the Park - July 25 - 26
Trick or Treat Path - July 25 - 26
Holiday Tree Lighting - Dec. 3rd
Rotary Club of Des Moines/Normandy Park works locally and globally through community involvement, volunteer work and service. They present the Poverty Bay Wine Festival and Poverty Bay Blues and Brews events each year.
Destination Des Moines is a non-profit 501(c)6 organization focused on the promotion and marketing of the City of Des Moines through activities that continue in the vitality of the Waterland Community. Their mission is to help develop awareness of the City of Des Moines as a great place to hold community events, to open and operate a business and assist other organizations in promoting and marketing events.
Destination Des Moines presents community events such as Fireworks Over Des Moines, Waterland Festival and Parade, Waterland Wine and Art Walk and Trick or Treat Path.
Larry Dominico - Videographer
Steve Goegebuer - Videographer
Cody Wikman - Custom shipping code developer
Blake Messer - Marketing
Dixie Small - Event Sponsor Chair
Maddie DuBray - Rotary Social Media
Melanie Sartin - Rotary Social Media Support
Therese Allen - Destination Des Moines Social Media
Susan Goegebuer - Event Treasurer
Justin Taillon - Professor at Highline College and department head of Hospitality and Tourism Management, video contributor and tech support.
Jill Clark - Central Washington University Wine Studies Director/Winery Liaison/Video Contributor
Bev Mahoney - Committee member
Kaycee Kiesz - Committee member
Andrea Novosad - Committee member
Lorri Munsey-Snyder - Committee member
Scott Logan - Committee member
Michelle Fawcett - Committee member
Tony Hettler - Co-chair
Connor Talbott - Co-chair
