Brother can you spare a bottle and Palate Press have joined forces to raise money for Haiti by asking collectors to donate rare bottles. Click on either link to find out more and how you can help.

Wine Book Girl, who works as editor for UC Press, also recommends Partners in Health (she’s worked closely with its founder, Paul Farmer, a UC Press author, who’s already left for Haiti).

That’s a depiction of “Roman Charity,” above, by 18th-century Venetian painter Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini.