Cap off the month at the Naples Winter Wine Festival (January 27 to 29), a three-day soiree that features vintners from 30-plus wineries, 18 celebrated American chefs (including Five-Star The Fearrington House Restaurant’s Colin Bedford)…
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Dec. 272016As you ascend the drive to The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples on a certain Saturday each January, you could easily be pulling up to an exotic car show. The endless Ferraris and Bentleys are the…
read moreTip a glass to the Naples Children & Education Foundation providing more than $11 million this year to local organizations whose mission is to help children, money raised in January through the annual winter wine…
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Dec. 212016The season of giving extends into January with New Year’s resolutions made in the charitable spirit. At the Naples Winter Wine Festival, giving back comes in the form of a luxurious auction.
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Dec. 202016With just six weeks until the gavel comes down to begin the auction, plans are now complete for the 2017 Naples Winter Wine Festival, the most successful international charity wine auction in the world. Teams…
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Dec. 142016Top vintners and celebrity chefs have worked out their food and wine pairings for 18 private vintner dinners and more than 60 one-of-a-kind auction lots have been wrapped up like perfect presents under the tree. Wolfgang Puck is chef…
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Dec. 072016Paddles flashed, confetti flew, and bidders at bottle-strewn white clothed tables cheered in Naples, Florida, and St Helena, California, this year, as wealthy wine lovers splashed out a collective $25 million at the US’s two…
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Sep. 142016One of the country’s foremost experts in realism and still lifes, renowned Still-Life Painter Eric Forstmann will be honored as the Featured Artist at the 2017 Naples Winter Wine Festival, held January 27-29, 2017 at The Ritz-Carlton…
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