Friday night’s dinner is typically hosted at various wineries across the Napa Valley. Image by Briana Marie Photography
This month sees the latest edition of the annual Auction Napa Valley, one of the most lavish and interesting events on the world?s charity and wine calendars. LUX editor Kitty Harris, who attended last year?s event as a guest of honour, recalls about her time spent drinking some of the world?s finest wines, dancing the tango at sunset on a hillside vineyard and witnessing the enormous generosity of connoisseurs and winemakers alike over the four-day event
Setting my bags down in the quaint Sutter Home lodge is like stepping back in time to the 1970s ? when Sutter created the first White Zinfandel, a style of cheap and cheerful wine which I suspect is not going to be on any of the menus for my next five days. I?m told that every evening I will get a bottle of fine wine to take to my room or to enjoy on the wooden white porch. I opt for a glass of the house?s Californian Riesling while I prepare for my evening of festivities; I am told to wear white for Argentinian tango and dinner. Follow LUX on Instagram: the.official.lux.magazine
My host for the evening, Argentine Delia Viader, earned her title as the ?Wine Mother? after founding Viader in 1986 when she created her eponymous estate on the slopes of Howell Mountain, on the east side of Napa Valley, and soon gained worldwide renown for her highly-structured, Bordeaux-style reds.
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