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Naples Winter Wine Festival
Ranks #1 Again

on Wine Spectator’s List of Top Charity Wine Auctions
T he Naples Winter Wine Festival has once again topped

Wine Spectator Magazine’s list of the highest-earning
charity wine auctions in the country, marking the 11th time
the Festival has earned this illustrious title since its incep-
tion in 2001. This honor goes to the 2016 Festival, which raised $310
nearly $10.5 million under the live auction tent (excluding Fund OF GORGEOUS
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2016 Festival co-chair Sandi Moran. “The continued success of the
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over 30 years
wonderful group of Trustees, vintners, chefs, sommeliers, staff and experience )
volunteers all work together to make the event as unique and excit-
ing as possible, and to drive home how important the auction is to
our community.” Color me beautiful

Top lots at the 2016 Naples Winter Wine Festival included the
first Rolls-Royce Dawn to be delivered in the United States, which Special
sold for $750,000. Three separate bidders won VIP access to Napa
Valley’s BottleRock music festival, two bespoke guitars and three
double magnums of coveted Gargiulo wines, totaling $720,000. • Free Professional Consultation
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The Naples Winter Wine Festival is the most successful inter-
national charity wine auction in the world, bringing together
renowned vintners and chefs with wine enthusiasts and philan-
thropists for a three-day Festival that raises millions of dollars for
underprivileged and at-risk children. Every dollar raised under the
tent funds the Festival’s founding organization, the Naples Chil-
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