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| Saturday's live auction saw several changes in format; an evening start time, fewer lots and a nightclub-style atmosphere. | Wine Spectator editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken donated a lot of 14 6-liter bottles of Napa wine decorated with reproductions of Belle Epoque posters. | |
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| The high bid of the day came from auction regular John Gorman, who paid $650,000 for a lot offered by vintner Ann Colgin. | For their auction lot, brothers Peter and Robert Mondavi teamed up to make wine together for the first time since the 1960s. | |
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| One of the biggest bidders at the event, Joy Craft (left), who picked up the Mondavi brothers' lot, toasts with friends. | Shari and Garen Staglin, center, celebrate the $221,000 in bids earned by their barrel lot of 2003 Rutherford Cabernet. | |
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