Auction Napa Valley raises record-breaking $16 million for local charities
Napa Velley Register / 6-2-13
ST. HELENA — The live auction that is part of the four-day Auction Napa Valley broke records Saturday afternoon at the Meadowood Napa Valley resort. Its 46 lots raised more than $14.3 million.
Auctioneers Fritz Hatton, Ursula Hermacinski and Humphrey Butler raised the level in the tent at Meadowood for the estimated 900 attendees by calling the lots at a fast and furious pace. Many of the lots started low at $10,000 and quickly went through the roof. The top lots of the day were a comprehensive vertical tasting of Harlan Estate cabernet sauvignon from 1990 through 2009, which sold for $800,000, and the Dana Estates lot, called “Discover the Soul of South Korea,” which sold to two bidders for more than half a million each.
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As usual, the Fund-A-Need portion of the evening raised a ton of dough, and it, too, broke records, raising $3.7 million. The donated funds didn’t buy a fabulous trip or experience; instead donors spent money to help Napa County nonprofits implement a program to help detect the need for mental health services in students.
At the beginning of the lot, Auction Napa Valley Chairman Garen Staglin said, “I need your attention. This is about our kids.” Then he turned the microphone over to District Attorney Gary Lieberstein, who spoke about his late son’s struggles with mental illness before a hushed audience.
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This will be more than double of what was raised last year when e-bidding closes Sunday evening. Auction Napa Valley organizers and volunteers did a great job.
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