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Jan. 222019Wines Of The Week: A Napa Cabernet For The Ages And A Great Rosé For The Winter
Forbes
When I recently received the news announcing that, next week, at the Naples Winter Wine Festival, an incredibly rare vertical of three-liter bottles of Screaming Eagle from 1992 to 1999 would be the starring lot…
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Commentary: Give broken minds a voice on mental health committee
Naples Daily News
We can’t enjoy whole health with a broken mind. The mind is a powerful force. When it’s healthy, it can be a positive force. When it’s ailing, it can hold us hostage. A broken mind…
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Jan. 172019The heart of Naples Winter Wine Festival
Naples Illustrated
Since the Naples Children & Education Foundation uncorked the Naples Winter Wine Festival in 2001, the multi-event fundraising weekend, which unites the world’s most famous chefs, vintners, and sommeliers, has raised more than $176 million…
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Jan. 172019Fantasy Food Draft
Gulfshore Life
The Naples Winter Wine Festival’s online auction is what gourmet dreams are made of—and anyone can place bids on chef-led experiences, winery tours and more.
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Jan. 162019Naples Winter Wine Festival Online Auction lets bidders give back
Naples Daily News
What a better way to ring in a new year than helping change the lives of thousands of children by participating in the Naples Winter Wine Festival’s Online Auction. The annual Naples Winter Wine Festival’s…
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FGCU’s Resort and Hospitality Management program is its best kept secret
WINK
If you ask the Director of the Resort and Hospitality Management program Randy Upchurch, he will tell you Sugden Hall houses Florida Gulf Coast University’s best-kept secret. “It’s management; it’s marketing; it’s HR; accounting and…
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Jan. 112019Naples Winter Wine Festival focuses on children’s mental health
SWFL Parent & Child
Research shows that 1 in 10 young people will struggle with a mental health issue before the age of 10, regardless of race and income, and half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin…
read more Jan. 112019Naples Winter Wine Festival makes historic exception for rare Screaming Eagle
Cult Wines
Naples Winter Wine Festival will allow phone bidding for the first time in its 18-year history to accommodate an extremely rare lot of Screaming Eagle. The lot comprises eight three-litre bottles of Screaming Eagle’s very…
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