If you're a wine collector and haven't been to the annual Napa Valley wine auction, pay attention. The 2007 auction is scheduled for June 7-10. Invitations were mailed in late March but you can also visit the auction home page of the Napa Valley Vintners and register directly.
This event will sell out so don't dawdle. The full weekend package is $2,500 a person and a daytime package of events is $1,000 a person. Read about what's included in each ticket package. The ticket prices may seem high, but keep in mind it's a charity event to benefit Napa county health, youth, and low-income housing non-profit groups.
Vinfolio co-sponsors Auction kick-off event
Vinfolio just agreed last week to co-sponsor a kick-off food and wine tasting event at the Beaulieu Garden Estate in Rutherford on Thursday night, June 7th, in conjunction with Departures magazine, the Mandarin Oriental hotel group, and Blackbird Vineyards. All auction ticketholders for the full weekend package will be invited (200 person capacity). There'll be about 15 top wineries pouring their wines; plenty of great food from Paula Leduc catering and Mandarin Oriental hotel chefs from New York, Miami, and San Francisco; and Vinfolio's Doug Wilder will be pouring a range of his favorite Napa wines (as will I and Vinfolio's executive wine specialist team).
Meet me there
My wife and I are attending the full weekend's events and would love to meet any blog readers or Vinfolio customers who plan to attend. Please feel free to email me to let me know (use the "Suggest a Topic" email link in my blog located under my photo).
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