Organisers are confident more than $100,000 will be raised for Cranford Hospice on the back of spectacular wine offerings and significant sponsorship support for this year's Hawke's Bay Winegrowers Charity Fine Wine Auction.
Local bottling business WineWorks has signed up as the major sponsor, and the high level of support from others in the business community means the November 8 event will be largely self-funded with proceeds benefiting a much loved, local charity.
Forty wineries are donating auction lots, including one-off blends mainly from the 2013 vintage, which Te Mata Estate chairman and Cranford Hospice patron John Buck describes as an "amazing vintage that will define Hawke's Bay for years to come".
Other auction lots include a large landscape painting by artist Freeman White, who recently did an impressive body of work for the New Zealand film What We Do in the Shadows.
A seven-day holiday package for up to 12 people in a luxury Vanuatu villa is also up for grabs thanks to the Reef House and House of Travel Hawke's Bay.