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The Latest Wine News From Napa Valley and LVMH Champagne

Our wine critic’s take on vino’s glitziest, ritziest event—or at least what used to be.

Hi, dedicated drinkers, Elin McCoy here, with my latest on wine for the now weekly Top Shelf Society newsletter. This past month my colleagues have treated you to killer cocktails in Italy (Kara), crossover beers (Tony) and ghost distilleries in Scotland (Brad).

I headed in the opposite direction, to the West Coast wine paradise of Napa Valley, to find out whether the revamped version of its famous June charity wine auction had as much bling as the original.