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Farewell to Napa s annual wine auction, the raucous charity bacchanal that s ended after 40 years
Farewell to Napa s annual wine auction, the raucous charity bacchanal that s ended after 40 years
The end of an era for an outrageous Wine Country tradition, in this week s Drinking with Esther newsletter
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Mitch Soekland and Mary Miner celebrate after winning Lot 10 for $55 thousand during Auction Napa Valley 2012 held at Meadowood resort in St. Helena, California. June 2, 2012.Erik Castro / Special To The Chronicle 2012
Like most events, Napa Valley’s most extravagant annual party has been canceled this year and it may never return. Auction Napa Valley, which began as a modest charity wine auction in 1981 and grew into a frenzied display of the valley’s wealth and status, is contemplating its future.
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evidence about what they did. larry elder is a radio show host from los angeles and happy to have him on the show. he joins us tonight. larry, you have to think not just in case of the boys but the case of anyone who has been called names by the media collectively and then found to be not guilty of the charges, how does that person get his reputation back? well, of course, the person doesn t get the reputation back. the accusation is made above the fold, page one. the retraction is made deeper in the newspaper. what happened here is the intersection of trump derangement syndrome and what tom wolf the author who wrote bonfire of the vanities called the media insistsant search for the great white defendant. that is what happened with sandman. earlier this week it happened to a friend of mine named doug adler who used to be an espn commentator.