Greetings Dear Wine Lover and ISAW Supporter:

Imagine meeting a small child for the first time, yet seeing all the possibility and potential that lie in the path of its young life. Imagine that child, like new wine, evolving from an immature grape into a complex, well groomed, and carefully cared for product of its vintners watchful eye. In the blink of a moment the child has gone from naive and curious to become mature, bold, even assertive. Its destiny comes full circle year after year, as layers and layers of growth and experience begin to craft a distinct impression on the child’s psyche developing a fully formed adult, capable and aware, and filled with the desire to leave the mark of its legacy in the world, in hopes of inspiring generations of new children to come.

ISAW is that child.

At the present moment our founding coalition is hard at work laying the groundwork for what will become for many of us a life long labor of love, dedicated to providing economic empowerment to a majority population of South African’s through viticulture.

At present over 47 million South Africans live below the poverty line. While many work on vineyards and have knowledge of wine making processes, political turmoil and socialized discrimination have kept the majority of South Africans from having access to capital and other resources required for business development.

While we are building this organization one step at a time, interested readers can always tune into our blog, our youtube site:

http://www.youtube.com/isawtv

or visit our global homepage at http://www.isawfoundation.org

This blog primarily will be dedicated to the wines we love to drink, but will also be giving you an ongoing taste of what and who ISAW is as a whole. Take the opportunity to support a fledgling organization as we nurture it to the age of perfection.

LB