Portland’s Wine Industry Hosts Raffle to Raise Money for a Local Winemaker’s Brain Tumor Treatment
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The Portland Wine Community Raises Money for Drew Herman, Facing a Brain Tumor Diagnosis
Drew Herman, a former assistant winemaker at Division Winemaking, and Johan Vineyards’ Elise Hansen, are expecting their first baby in the spring. But recently, the couple received devastating news: Herman has a brain tumor. Herman and Hansen are well-known within Portland’s wine community, so local wine industry workers including Dana Frank of Bar Norman and Thomas Monroe of Division Winemaking started a raffle to raise money for the family; local wineries, wine shops, restaurants, and wine distributors have provided product to be included as a part of the raffle, including (but not limited to) places like Prufrock Wines, Anne Amie Vineyards, Canard, and Division Winemaking. 100 percent of the money in this raffl