Sponsored by Greenberg Traurig and Nestle Waters North America, the evening of Saturday, October 15, 2011, the InterContinental Hotel Buckhead will glow as guests enjoy an elegant party with fine wines, gourmet cuisine, live music and one-of-a kind musically inspired auction items. This dinner provides a unique opportunity to interact with fellow wine enthusiasts while enjoying innovative cuisine and the world’s finest wines.
Proceeds benefit the T.J. Martell Foundation, a national non-profit organization supported by the music industry that locally funds a cancer research fellowship grant for the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. As Georgia's only National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center, Winship provides patients and their loved ones the most advanced cancer care available. Winship is now counted among the world's elite cancer facilities where patients have greater options for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and hope.
The Best Cellars Dinner salutes Atlanta’s top wine collectors who come together on one special evening to highlight and share wine from their personal cellars. The dinner is an intimate festive setting of 250 highly influential international business and community leaders with a wine host at each table. Each wine host provides the wine for the dinner guests seated at their table. The dinner is an extraordinary gourmet, four course meal prepared by James Beard Award Winning celebrity guest chef Anne Quatrano, of Bacchanalia followed by dancing to the music of Atlanta Beat.
6:30 p.m.Champagne Reception
7:30 p.m. Dinner, Auction and Dancing
Also featuring a silent and live auction
Grand Cru Tables for Atlanta’s Best Cellars Dinner are $6,000
Individual Tickets are $650
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Download the Information Sheet & Reservation Form
Download the Auction Information Sheet & Donation Form
Atlanta Best Cellars Dinner
Saturday, October 15, 2011
At The InterContinental Hotel Buckhead
Presented by
Dinner Committee
PRESENTING SPONSORS
Greenberg Traurig
Nestle Waters North America
RECEPTION SPONSOR
Polay Financial Management
MAGNUM SPONSORS
Polay Financial Management
GRAND CRU SPONSORS
Atlanta Hawks & Philips Arena
Coca-Cola of North America
CSE
Emory Winship
Enercon
RDW Ventures, LLC
The Recording Academy
Wilmington Trust
DINNER CO-CHAIRS
Mark Goldman
Joel Katz
DINNER COMMITTEE
John Bevilaqua
Dayna Carney
Alexandra Fenech
John Gangemi
Gary Handler
Holly Hawkins
Bob Heatherly
Catherine Jones
David Kurzweil
Dan Lipson
Vicki Riedel
Lisa Sanders
Scott Zucker
ENTERTAINMENT ADVISORY BOARD
Sharliss Asbury, Rowdy Films
Catherine Brewton, BMI
Charlie Brusco, Alliance Artists Ltd.
Michele Caplinger,
The Recording Academy
Lonnie Cooper, CSE
Shanti Das, Press Reset Entertainment
Charles J. Johnson, Sports and Entertainment Group, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
Heather Malcom, Joel A. Katz Music & Entertainment Business Program at Kennesaw State University
Rasheed Muhammad, SunTrust Private Wealth Management, Sports and Entertainment Specialty Group
Don Perry, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Robert Polay,
Polay Financial Management
Devyne Stephens, Upfront Megatainment
Jan Smith, Jan Smith Studios, Inc.
Bob Williams,
Atlanta Hawks & Philips Arena
Chaka Zulu, Disturbing tha Peace
WINE HOST CO-CHAIRS
Cindy and Gary Handler, Vinings Gallery
Holly and Chuck Hawkins,
Private Collection
WINE HOST COMMITTEE
Kim and Tom Bigelow,
Bigelow Advertising
Danielle and Peter Bouharoun, Bouharoun's Fine Wines
Dr. Laura Braswell,
Buckhead Periodontics
Dayna and Andrew Carney, Wells Fargo
Rick Crowe, McKendrick's Steak House
John Driscoll, Sherlock's Wine Merchants
Kimberly and John Gangemi,
Morgan Stanley
Melissa Prewitt and Jim Gannon,
Enercon
Jill and Kevin Hill, Comcast
Katie and West, Johnson,
Private Collection
Kane and Joel Katz, Greenberg Traurig
Debbie and David Kurzweil,
Greenberg Traurig
Angel and Dan Marx, Private Collection
Todd Rushing, Concentrics Restaurants
Sara and John Shlesinger,
CB Commercial Real Estate
Kelly Wheeler, Con Vinum
Rod Windley, RDW, Ventures, LLC
T.J. Martell Foundation
Laura Heatherly, CEO
Lynn-Anne Huck, Development Consultant
Emory Winship Cancer Institute
Vicki Riedel
Ashley Howze
Thank you to our sponsors
