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Twitter chardonnay, anyone? Lunch with co-founder Biz Stone is included

By W.J. Hennigan

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Anybody interested in a glass of Twitter wine with company co-founder Biz Stone?

That’s right. Twitter, along with the Napa winery Crushpad, has created a pinot noir and a chardonnay called Fledgling.

Twitter is auctioning the wine and a lunch for two with Stone on EBay until Dec. 16. The high bid as of late Thursday morning was $1,725. Seperately, it is offering 350 signed wine bottles and 140 signed magnums.

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Proceeds go to Room to Read, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization providing opportunities that promotes literacy among children in poor countries.

“To date, Room to Read has established more than 1,000 schools and over 10,000 bilingual libraries with 7 million books, and supports the education of nearly 10,000 girls,” Fledgling’s website says.

Have yet to see a tasting note on Twitter’s vintage, though.

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W.J. Hennigan

W.J. Hennigan covered the Pentagon and national security issues from Washington, D.C., before leaving the Los Angeles Times bureau in November 2017. While there, he reported on war, counter-terrorism, and the lives of American service members from more than two dozen countries and previously covered the aerospace and defense industry from Los Angeles. Hennigan earned awards from the National Press Club, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, and was a contributor to the Los Angeles Times coverage of the terror attacks in San Bernardino that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016.

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