The Bacchanal & Auction:

6:00p.m. Reception and Silent Auction
7:30 p.m. Dinner & Live Auction
Admission: $250 per person
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Set at the internationally acclaimed Boca Raton Resort & Club, The Bacchanal & Auction presents a gastronomic fantasy of sensational cuisine and great wine, presided over by Executive Chef Andrew Roenbeck and the Vintner Dinner Chefs, accompanied by auction lots of wine, lifestyle and travel.

About the Auctioneer

The Auction and Dinner - Saturday, March 11, 2006 - Set at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, The Bacchanal Auction & Dinner will be a delicious fantasy of sensational food and great wine presented by the Vintner Dinner Chefs and Wineries, presided over by Resort Executive Andrew Roenbeck, and followed by an exciting auction orchestrated by respected master auctioneer Dawn Marie Kotsonis.

Reception and Dinner Menu

Preview of Select Auction Lots

• The Best of Atlanta
Opening Bid: $3,000
An unforgettable two-night stay in cosmopolitan Atlanta for four will be highlighted by a memorable evening of wine and food at the original Chops Lobster Bar, and accommodations at the exquisite Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta. This award-winning steak and seafood restaurant is expanding nationally, opening at Boca Raton’s Royal Palm Place in late 2006. Custom-designed by Executive Chef Will Eudy, this five-course meal will highlight the finest steaks and the freshest seafood, plus wines selected by its sommelier to complement each course. Roundtrip airfare for four sponsored by Delta Air Lines, visit www.delta.com for new and expanded service to Europe, Latin America and for all our new destinations. The best is yet to come—but you’d better bid high!
(Some restrictions apply; hotel and dinner must be used by March, 2007.)

• Tenuta Silvio Nardi - Three Decades of Brunello
Opening Bid: $1,500
Brunello is a Tuscan grape characterized by extraordinary concentration, acidity and extract. Closed, austere and unapproachable when young, wine made with Brunello (Sangiovese Grosso) blossoms with age. These three bottles from Tenuta Silvio Nardi 1980 Brunello di Montalcino Reserva, 1990 Brunello di Montalcino and 2000 Brunello di Montalcino, demonstrate the impressive way Brunellos evolve in the bottle. They will also whet the high bidder’s appetite for the second element of this lot: a tour and tasting at Tenuta Silvio Nardi in Tuscany, hosted by Emilia Nardi. Visit is to be scheduled in advance; August, harvest and December are blackout dates; transportation and accommodations are not included.

• Home Wine Cellar
Opening Bid: $2,000
This package of furniture and wine racks from Bay Colony Wine Cellars is everything you need for a home wine cellar, except for the wine and a cooling unit! Begin with two mahogany-finish wood wine racks, each with a capacity of 200 bottles and a display row for 20 of the finest and/or most interesting wines in the collection. These are versatile racks that can handle Bordeaux, Burgundy and most Champagne bottles. Also included are a hand-crafted highboy tasting table and two stools with leather seats created from reclaimed wine barrels and casks sourced from the Napa Valley. Each piece of furniture is numbered, signed and dated, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Production of items from these rare wood tanks (which held wine for decades in a winery near St. Helena) is limited and this furniture represents irreplaceable pieces of wine history.

Auctioneer

Equal parts “entertainer and fund-raiser” is how many of the country’s top charitable organizations have described Auctioneer DawnMarie Kotsonis. She has delighted audiences while raising an estimated $42 million charitable dollars for a variety of worthy causes. A native New Yorker, DawnMarie’s dynamic style and focus on three key elements —“make it fast, make it fun and raise a lot of money while promoting the cause!” —contributes to the success of every auction. Over the years, DawnMarie has collaborated on many high-profile celebrity events and been featured in media including Wine Spectator magazine for auction successes such as raising over $2,400,000 at a single wine auction event.

Most recently, DawnMarie joined Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital Foundation as Director of Development—helping to raise a record $20 million in support of the medical center’s community programs and construction of the Ed L. Shannon Tower. A graduate of PIH Clown College, DawnMarie a.k.a. “Dr. Bubbles” can also be found in full clown regalia visiting patients in the hospital and at local community clinics.

DawnMarie resides in the historic Brookdale Heights area of Fullerton, California.