BERKELEY — A new line of wines saucily named Cleavage Creek and featuring models sporting discreet decolletage on the label has a surprising back story: The wines are part of a fundraising campaign to fight breast cancer; the models are survivors of that disease.

Nearly everyone is finished with harvest, or will be by week’s end. A few growers, including Pat Stotesbery, are hoping the rains will go and stay away until November, but so far the rains haven’t hurt the hardy cabernet grapes with its thicker skins and looser clusters. More than one grower comments that 2007 wines will be fantastic.

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Diamonds in the Rough, vintner Boots Brounstein’s annual fundraiser aimed at finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease, raised more than $100,000 last weekend for the Parkinson’s Institute in Sunnyvale.

Stomp grapes at Bourassa Vineyard’s harvest celebration Saturday, Oct. 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. Wine tasting — barrel, library and futures — is part of the event along with a food and wine paing demonstration by Julie Logue-Riordan, of Cooking with Julie.

Beaulieu Vineyard announced today that it will create a self-contained, state-of-the-art winemaking facility dedicated solely to the production of its flagship wine, Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, one of Napa Valley’s iconic, benchmark wines.