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ST. HELENA, CA –The Napa Valley Vintner’s annual 3-day charity celebration of the region’s wines was a big success.

Despite the questionable economy everywhere, events for Auction Napa Valley 2009 took in a total of $5.7 million dollars with the proceeds going to local healthcare, youth and housing non-profit programs.

Events included a “Great Train Robbery” (with horses, guns and a lot of smiling faces), special wine tastings and amazing “dinners all throughout the valley, a wonderful “barrel auction” of wines on the grounds of the Robert Mondavi winery and finally the grand gala dinner auction under the giant tents at Meadowood — where wine/travel/goodies packages sold for tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands/million+!

The overall spectacle and scope of all the events was mind-boggling especially since everything seemed to work exactly as planned — an amazing feat.

It was good to see that although the final numbers were down from previous years attendees came through for the local charities.

Oh, and the wine was pretty amazing too!

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