Charity Wine Auction Raises
$14 Million in Four Hours
The
Naples Winter Wine Festival raised today $14 million under
the auction tent for children’s charities, making it once
again the most successful charity wine auction in the world.
During the four-hour auction, attended by 635 guests at The
Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples Saturday, January 26th,
auction attendees bid on 72 one-of-a-kind, luxury lots, with
winning bids ranging from $45,000 to $1 million. All monies
raised under the tent go directly to children’s charities.
Since trustees of the NCEF founded the
festival in 2001, it has raised more than $69 million to
improve the lives of underprivileged and at-risk children in
Collier County, Fla.
See All the Winning Bid Amounts