Balboa Bay Resort General Manager Sam El-Rabaa with Balboa Bay Club Baord of Governors member Joe Moody
The 16thAnnual Newport Beach Wine Festival at Balboa Bay Resort on Memorial Day weekend drew wine lovers galore for a waterfront Far Niente and Nickel & Nickel winemaker dinner, a Mac(allan) & Cheese Whisky Tasting, Grand Wine and Food Tasting, a Patio Party at A&O Kitchen+Bar, and a Sunday seafood and champagne brunch with Taittinger. Photography Ann Chatillon
Virginia, Anthony, JoAnne and Samantha Mangione 
Constellation Brands representative pouring its cabernet sauvignon for Daniel Yanni and Nikki Eftekhari 
Mia VanBergh, Anne Wortmann, Nicole Grice 
Francis Ford Coppola’s Archimedes Cabernet Sauvignon being poured at BBR Wine Festival