{"id":13815,"date":"2017-01-22T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=13815"},"modified":"2017-01-22T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T18:30:40","slug":"naples-wine-festival-supports-children-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/22\/naples-wine-festival-supports-children-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Naples Wine Festival Supports Children in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napleswinefestival.com\" target=\"_blank\">Naples Winter Wine Festival<\/a>\u00a0in Florida\u00a0takes place next week from January 27 to January 29, 2017. The purpose of this annual event is to support the Naples Children &amp; Education Foundation. NCEF focuses on helping the children at risk in Collier County to improve their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will highlight more than 30 wineries from around the world. World regions represented will include: Argentina, France, Italy, Spain and the US. The US wineries taking part in the festival are located in California and Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>This year the Naples Winter Wine Festival will feature 18 celebrity chefs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the elegant dinners in private homes, the Naples Winter Wine Festival will have a large auction with 63 lots available to bid on. A large variety of lots for auctions include fine wines, travel, and dinners. Check out the list of the 2017 auction lots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napleswinefestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/AAG-Booklet.pdf\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Events at the festival include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wine down, Bid Up! Online Auction<\/li>\n<li>The Vintage Cellar<\/li>\n<li>Meet the Kids Day<\/li>\n<li>Vintner Dinners<\/li>\n<li>Live Auction<\/li>\n<li>Wine Down<\/li>\n<li>Celebration Brunch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets are sold only for the complete festival.\u00a0Tickets are limited to approximately 580 guests.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that since the beginning of the festival in 2001, the Naples Winter Wine Festival has garnered $146 million to help needy children.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Naples Wine Festival Supports Children in Need\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=13815\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Naples Winter Wine Festival in Florida takes place next week from January 27 to January 29, 2017. The purpose of this annual event is to support the Naples Children &#038; Education Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1078,1161,184,3764,98],"class_list":["post-13815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-charity","tag-event","tag-festival","tag-naples-wine-festival","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13817,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions\/13817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}