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Feb. 272020

Naples Winter Wine Festival: A Weekend for the Oenophile’s Bucket List

I was surprised when I learned that Naples, Florida was home to a prestigious international wine festival. Traditional grape varietals, such as Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon, don’t grow well in the warm, humid climate, so…

Feb. 202020

EPISODE 143 ALFRED TESSERON, PROPRIETOR, PONTET-CANET & NICOLAS GLUMINEAU, GM & WINEMAKER, PICHON COMTESSE

I was recently in Florida at the Naples Winter Wine Festival benefitting the Naples Children and Education Foundation. I had the opportunity to sit with the best wine people from around the world. This episode…

Feb. 182020

Laura Catena Works On Two Continents – As Physician And Winemaker

Laura Catena is an energized, intelligent, modern-day polymath: a fourth-generation winemaker at the renowned Bodega Catena Zapata winery in Mendoza, Argentina, as well as a physician in San Francisco; she is a graduate of Harvard…

Feb. 142020

Naples Winter Wine Festival online auction tops $500,000

In addition to raising more than $20 million during its live auction, the Naples Winter Wine Festival has broken another record as its sixth annual online auction came to a close last week, bringing in…

Feb. 112020

Naples Winter Wine Festival Raises Over $20 Million Overnight

The Naples Winter Wine Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary by raising a little over $20 million, the highest amount ever raised at a charity wine auction, for underprivileged children living in Collier County.

Feb. 072020

NFL weekend, ‘Saturday Night Live’ taping bids help raise $500,000 for Naples wine fest online auction

Enjoying an extravagant NFL weekend, watching the taping of a long-running television show and sitting down at a private dinner for 10 on Keewaydin Island. Those were among the auction lots that helped raise more…

2020 Naples Winter Wine Festival auction at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples

Feb. 032020

How This Record Breaking Wine Auction Reshapes Lives

In just five hours last weekend, two auctioneers at the Winter Wine Festival in Naples, Florida, raised over $20 million for the Naples Children & Education Foundation (NCEF) to aid disadvantaged children and youth. In…