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It may be summer in Sun Valley, but it’s never too early to start planning your winter. This 2015/2016 Adult Ski Pass guarantees you unlimited skiing and boarding at both Bald and Dollar Mountains. With no blackout dates, you can rack up skier days from Thanksgiving until April, enjoying Blue Bird skies, barely-there lift lines, some of the best grooming in the world, AND plush mountain restaurants and lodges. With 3400 feet of vertical drop at Baldy and more than 600 at Dollar, Sun Valley has something for every level of skier. Opened in 1936, Sun Valley has been hosting serious skiers for more than three-quarters of a century. This is your chance to join them.
Opening Bid: $1600
Includes: One 2015/2016 Adult Ski Pass
Donor: Sun Valley Resort
The Antinori family’s winemaking heritage dates back 26 generations and over 600 years in Italy. Set in the eastern mountains of Napa Valley, the secluded and breathtaking Antinori Family Estate of Antica Napa Valley encompasses nearly 1200 acres. “Antica” is short for Antinori California, and fulfills the family’s long-standing desire to produce beautiful wines in Napa Valley. Tonight, one lucky winner will take home three bottles of Antica’s renowned wines, one magnum of the sold out 2008 Townsend Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon and two 750ml bottles of the extraordinary 2012 Townsend Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. Townsend Vineyard’s name illustrates the passion and care the Antinori family puts into its wines; the family named it for Mrs. June Townsend, who bought the land with her husband in the 1950s. Mrs. Townsend offered to sell the land to Piero Antinori in 1998, knowing it was going to man who would care for with the same love and attention she had.
Opening Bid: $200
Includes: One 1.5-Liter Bottles, Two 750ml Bottles
Donor: Antica, Napa, California
Every self-respecting French woman knows that a scarf is the lynchpin to a well-curated wardrobe—the perfect complement to any ensemble and an ideal, year-round layering piece. If anyone understands the value of a scarf, it’s local photographer and créatrice extraordinaire, Nina Fox. In 2013, the founder and owner of Haute Wrap introduced photographic images to fabric. She has since teamed with an Italian atelier that manufactures Haute Wrap scarves. These luxurious cashmere blend pieces bear images of everything from urban graffiti to vistas of the Idaho skyline at dusk. From the moment they arrive from Italy, Nina’s seasonal scarf collections go like hotcakes. Wrap yourself in one and you’ll understand why: the hand-rolled, hand-sewn edges, rich, saturated colors and soft, gauzy finish ensure that a scarf from Haute Wrap will make you look and feel beautiful. The Bas Bottles scarf, from the Summer 2015 “Lap of Luxury” collection, measures approximately 55 x 78 in. Airy and neutral in palette, the Bas Bottles scarf makes a perfect wrap on a cool night and an ideal pareo by the pool.
Opening Bid: $350
But it Now: $600
Includes: One 55” x 78” Hand-Made “Bas Bottles” Wrap
Donor: Haute Wrap LLC, Nina Fox
Riedel’s Veritas line is a collection for the 21st century, machine-blown in fine crystal of unsurpassed thinness and lightness, and manufactured utilizing the very latest manufacturing techniques developed by the Weiden factory team. Riedel Veritas is dishwasher safe, resistant to breakage and suitable for long term daily home use. “Riedel Veritas combines the charm of a handmade glass with the consistent accuracy only a machine made glass can achieve,” says Georg Riedel, 10th generation glassmaker. The shape and size of the Riedel Veritas bowls are tailored to highlight the DNA of individual grape varietals, each distinguished by the grape’s skin thickness and color, the amount of tannins, sugar content and intensity of acidity and minerality. The light, balanced and elegant glasses of the new Riedel Veritas collection are first and foremost “tools” designed to enhance the enjoyment of fine wines. This tasting set includes one each of the following glasses: Cabernet Sauvignon, Old World Pinot Noir, Riesling and Oaked Chardonnay.
Opening Bid: $100
Includes: Four Tasting Glasses
Donor: Riedel Crystal of North America, Inc.
You have never been to a winery like this. We promise. Come and discover a unique and exceptional one-of-a kind vineyard, with a holistic concept that will leave you thunder-struck. It is not in vain that the indigenous people call this area Millahue, the “Place of Gold.” Here you will find a new way of looking at the land, and without a doubt you will find the “gold” in a superb wine that will leave you enamored.
Two of you will be flown from the U.S. to Santiago, Chile, and from there you will head south to spend five luxurious nights in a suite at the incomparable Viña Vik Hotel. The hotel sits high in the untamed hills, with breathtaking views of the Andes mountain range in the distance. Viña Vik welcomes guests through an architecturally stunning open public living area and garden. Every suite boasts floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing guests to take in the majestic views. Beyond the public living areas, guests will find a striking cantilevered pool made of Absolute Nero granite extending out over the valleys and lake below, offering the sensation of swimming above the vineyard.
The vineyard retreat is perched on a hilltop above a lake at the center of this spectacular 11,000-acre vineyard with panoramic 360-degree views of the vines, multiple valleys, hills, forests and mountains with the majestic Andes Mountains in the distance. Spend a day discovering the magic of the Viña Vik winery with a private tour. Your stay also includes on-site activities such as trekking, horseback riding and biking, or you can visit numerous neighboring vineyards to sample more of Chile’s finest wines.
As a tantalizing introduction to this trip, tonight’s winning bidders will also bring home an astounding addition to any wine collection—a case of the VIK 2010. On the nose, this wine is complex and intense, with notes of red raspberries and cherries, harmoniously blended with hints of tobacco and light floral notes. The palate opens up to flavors of mixed red fruits, accompanied by sweet spices, hazelnut and touches of balsamic. Firm in structure and elegant in style, finegrained tannins reveal a soft yet vivacious finish. VIK 2010 presents a great balance between fruit, alcohol and tannins.
Travel must be completed before July 1, 2016 at a mutually convenient time with blackout dates of December 10, 2015-January 31, 2016. Trip must be booked 90 days in advance.
OPENING BID
$10,000
INCLUDES
Round Trip Economy Airfare for Two
Five-Night Stay for Two
Twelve 750ml Bottles
DONORS
Kurtz-Ahlers & Associates, Luxury Travel
Services Viña VIK Properties
Kosta Browne’s incredible wines are notoriously difficult to come by. The winery’s goal is to produce flavorful, intense wines. And are they ever that. The winemakers at Kosta Browne believe that every bottle should be bursting with flavor and that the intensity should be part of a greater balance. Kosta Browne’s single vineyard wines are blended to express the specific qualities and consistencies of their pedigreed vineyards. They offer three appellation wines: Sonoma Coast, Russian River and Santa Lucia Highlands as well as a Chardonnay. These wines are blended to represent the best of the vineyards in each specific appellation. Quality is of utmost importance with these blends. And tonight, if you pay close attention, you can get your hands on a 2013 Sonoma Coast large-format bottle of Kosta Browne’s Pinot Noir. This is no small feat.
OPENING BID
$1,000
INCLUDES
One 1.5 L Bottle
DONOR
Kosta Browne Winery, Sebastopol, California
Located just two miles southwest of Calistoga, California, Diamond Mountain has a long and rich winemaking history in Napa Valley. Wineries located in the Diamond Mountain District (DMD) AVA are small-production, family-owned wineries, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand cases each year. In 2008, Ed and Irene Ojdana purchased a six-acre estate on Diamond Mountain. The unique site produces low yielding, small berries that reveal a rich and concentrated wine with flavors of blackberries and cassis. To soften the tannins, typical of mountain fruit, Vineyard {511} Cabernet Sauvignon is aged in 100% French oak for 30 months, followed by another 12 months of bottle aging before it is released. Enjoy this three-bottle vertical of the vineyard’s Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, starting with the 2009, its first release, presented in a beautiful wooden box, and appreciate the vintage-to-vintage nuances that occur in a single-vineyard wine. Additionally, with this lot you can secure an invitation for four people to Vineyard {511}’s annual Harvest Party, overlooking Diamond Mountain and the stunning vineyard.
OPENING BID
$800
INCLUDES
Three 750ml Bottles
Tour & Tasting for Four or
Tickets for Four to Special Event
DONOR
Vineyard {511}, Calistoga, California
What better way to enjoy the beauty, wonder and magic of Napa Valley wine country than to spend three nights relaxing to the fullest in the vineyard at Kenefick Ranch’s cozy historic two-bedroom farmhouse in Calistoga, California. Located beneath the Palisades Mountains in Napa Valley on 125 acres, Kenefick Ranch Vineyards is owned by Dr. Thomas Kenefick and his children Chris and Caitlin. For nearly four decades Dr. Kenefick, a retired San Francisco neurosurgeon, has farmed the red rock-filled soils in the region, producing estate-grown and award-winning wines reflecting the character of the terroir. Join Dr. Kenefick on the patio overlooking the vineyard for an afternoon lunch, while tasting some of Kenefick Ranch’s finest hand-crafted estate wines. After your trip, relive the Kenefick Ranch experience and savor a Magnum of Kenefick Ranch Chris’s Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon at home.
OPENING BID
$800
INCLUDES
Three-Night Stay
for Four
One 1.5 L Bottle
Lunch and Wine Tasting for Four
DONOR
Kenefick Ranch Winery, Calistoga, California
These two exotic bottles of French Bordeaux from the 1982 vintage are ready and waiting for you to enjoy together. And what a pair they are—a 1982 Château Gloria St. Julian Red Bordeaux and a 1982 Château Brane-Cantenac Red Bordeaux Blend from Margaux, France. Both wines hail from the important appellation of the Haut-Medoc district of Bordeaux in southwestern France. Saint-Julien is a small area with a big reputation as a reliable source of consistently elegant, age-worthy wines. And the Brane-Cantenac received 90 points from Wine Spectator: “This shows wonderful finesse. Brick red in color, with a garnet edge. Lovely perfumed aromas of blackberry and chocolate, with a hint of raisin. Medium-bodied, with velvety tannins and a long, sweet fruit finish.” These two beauties want to go home with you tonight.
OPENING BID
$180
INCLUDES
Two 750ml Bottles
DONOR
Anonymous
WALT Wines, owned by seasoned vintners Kathryn Walt Hall and Craig Hall, is dedicated to the production of premier Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the Pacific Coast’s most distinctive vineyard sites, spanning nearly 1,000 miles and including Sta. Rita Hills, Sonoma County, Anderson Valley and the Willamette Valley. Their focus is on precision, non-interventionist winemaking, thereby allowing the wines to naturally and honestly express the character of the site where the wines are grown. Tonight’s offering is a Double Magnum of the winery’s 2012 La Brisa Pinot Noir. This appellation blend is composed of several select vineyards throughout the Russian River Valley. The resulting wine is a harmonic chorus of vineyard sites and clones, a complex and delicious Sonoma County blend. Deep garnet in color, the wine offers a perfume of strawberry jam, fresh cranberry and hints of pinot funk. Flavors of pomegranate and violets segue into a sweet, lush and lively palate with a bright, lengthy finish. Stephen Tanzer at the International Wine Cellar gave it 90 points, saying, “On the exotic side, finishing with very good cut and slow-building, harmonious tannins that add grip. Lots of energy here.” Grab onto the energy and don’t let go.
OPENING BID
$200
INCLUDES
Two 3-Liter Bottles
DONOR
WALT Wines, Sonoma, California