{"id":101,"date":"2010-04-01T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/04\/mutt-lynch-winery-must-love-dogsand-wine.html"},"modified":"2010-04-01T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:30:54","slug":"mutt-lynch-winery-must-love-dogsand-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/04\/mutt-lynch-winery-must-love-dogsand-wine.html","title":{"rendered":"Mutt Lynch Winery: Must Love Dogs&#8230;and Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" height=\"300\" alt=\"mutt-lynch-winery.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/import\/imgs\/mutt-lynch-winery.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/span>If you love dogs and wine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muttlynchwinery.com\/muttlynch\/index.jsp\">Mutt Lynch Winery in Healdsburg, California<\/a> would be your idea of heaven.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995, married couple Brenda and Chris Lynch paired their love for wine and dogs by&nbsp;founding a vineyard to develop wine that had&nbsp;pictures of dogs&nbsp;on their bottle labels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muttlynchwinery.com\/muttlynch\/catalog\/index.jsp\">Clever canine-inspired wine names at Mutt Lynch Winery<\/a>&nbsp;include &#8220;Unleashed Chardonnay,&#8221; &#8220;Portrait of a Mutt Zinfandel,&#8221; &#8220;Chateau d&#8217;Og Cabernet Sauvignon,&#8221; and &#8220;Canis Major Petite Sirah.&#8221;&nbsp; The one bottle that started it all was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplepets.com\/news\/dogs\/meet-a-member-mutt-lynch-winery-caters-to-connoisseurs-and-canines\/1\">Fou Fou le Blanc Sauvignon Blanc<\/a>,&#8221; a name Brenda and&nbsp;her graphic designer invented.&nbsp; To illustrate the bottle, the&nbsp;label displays a dancing poodle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Lynches aren&#8217;t just producing good wine; they&nbsp;are also involved in&nbsp;local and out-of-state animal shelters and&nbsp;they give back to various dog charities.&nbsp; The couple supported over 50 nonprofit animal&nbsp;organizations in 2009 and they hope to double the support this year.&nbsp; They&nbsp;will also be donating $10,000 to Adopt-a-Pet.com, the nation&#8217;s largest pet adoption organization.&nbsp; To continue fundraising efforts, the&nbsp;Lynches also started a nonprofit partner program that would&nbsp;introduce their wine&nbsp;at nonprofit events.<\/p>\n<p>They also&nbsp;rescued a racing greyhound, named Patch, from New Zealand.&nbsp; Mutt Lynch Winery also&nbsp;welcomes human and pup visitors&#8211;for wine tastings and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muttlynchwinery.com\/muttlynch\/page\/tasting-room.jsp\">&#8220;Bark&#8221; mitzvahs<\/a>!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on Mutt Lynch Winery:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplepets.com\/news\/dogs\/meet-a-member-mutt-lynch-winery-caters-to-connoisseurs-and-canines\/1\">PeoplePets.com: Mutt Lynch Winery Welcomes Connoisseurs and Canines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muttlynchwinery.com\/muttlynch\/index.jsp\">MuttLynchWinery.com: The House of Mutt Lynch<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love dogs and wine, Mutt Lynch Winery in Healdsburg, California would be your idea of heaven. 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