The Naples Winter Wine Festival is a charity wine festival established in 2001 that combines gourmet dinners prepared by celebrity chefs with an auction. The three-day event is held every year in Naples, Florida. The festival was founded by the Naples Children & Education Foundation. The foundation uses the festival proceeds for various projects that benefit at-risk and underprivileged children in Collier County. The festival is popular with well-to-do crowd from all over the world. The tickets for festival events are highly coveted and sell out long before the festival begins. The festival features about 30 world famous wineries and about 18 celebrity chefs, who cook their favorite dishes in private family homes around Naples.