MISSION
The Treasure Coast Charity Wine Fest is a premier wine event located on Florida’s beautiful Treasure Coast. The festival features exquisite culinary offerings paired with sommeliers, hand-selected wines, stellar entertainment, and a world-class live and online auction. Proceeds from the festival & events support community efforts by providing grants and donations to local nonprofits and charities.
Jen Reyneri - CEO
Jen Reyneri is a seasoned marketing professional, writer, creative, and the proud co-owner of The Grove, Cucina & Wine Bar in Hobe Sound. Jen currently serves as Secretary on the board of the Treasure Coast chapter of the Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association.
With over 20 years of experience in marketing and sales, as well as having owned several businesses, she has perfected the art of creating memorable campaigns and propelling business growth as a social media mentor and influencer with Word Traveling. Founder of Shine Digital Marketing, she has coached women in marketing and business. Throughout her marketing career, she has gained extensive knowledge of sales and engagement strategies that helped spread awareness through storytelling and expanding business growth with conceptualized, fresh ideas. By utilizing her entrepreneurial, homeschooling, sales, public speaking, and marketing experience, while applying her faith, core values, and creative abilities, she has helped numerous clients achieve their business goals and exponentially grow.
She lived abroad for nearly a year in Europe studying wine, has traveled to over 20 countries, and is raising two teenage sons. She and her husband, Luis, have used their backgrounds to open a fabulous and award-winning restaurant (The Grove Pizza Cucina & Wine Bar), and she also holds a Level One Sommelier Certificate from the Court of Master Sommeliers. However, her true passion is giving back to the community, and she uses her restaurant as a space to host multiple charitable events to support local nonprofits and serves on numerous non-profit boards including Martin County’s 4-H SPAM Robotics and with her husband Luis on the Jensen Beach High School’s Hospitality Program
Luis Reyneri - COO
Cuban-born, kingdom-minded businessman, Luis Reyneri, has 30+ years of hospitality management experience and is the co-owner of The Grove, Cucina & Wine Bar. While studying abroad in Brussels, Belgium, with Boston University’s Hotel & Tourism Program, Luis caught the “wine and travel bug.” In the years since, Luis has deepened his faith through studying the vine and has shared that love of wine as a wine educator. As the national sales director of a family-owned Napa Valley winery, Luis has had the opportunity to partner with some of the finest hospitality businesses around the globe. Well-renowned and credentialed in the industry as Certified Wine Educator, Advanced Sommelier, Certified Italian Wine Professional and an Italian Wine Trade Association Ambassador. Luis has also served as head judge for the Miami International Wine Fair and currently is on the board of the Indian River State College’s Hospitality advisory board and alongside his wife Jen on the Jensen Beach High School’s Hospitality Program advisory team.
An enthusiastic and engaging contributor to society, multi-lingual Luis has volunteered at prestigious charitable events such as the Destin Charity Wine Auction, Napa Valley Wine Auction, and The Naples Winter Wine Fest. For over twenty years, he has shared his passions in service and wine by creating wine tasting and educational clubs, serving as an adjunct university professor, and mentoring young sommeliers, once himself receiving Las Vegas’ up-and-coming sommelier award. Luis has left his mark of excellence with the Hyatt Regency, House of Blues, and the Bellagio Resort in Las Vegas and has worked with the Pebble Beach Food and Wine Fest and the Wine Spectator Grand Tastings. He has been featured in the LA Times, Latina, Hispanic, and Naples Illustrated and has previously worked with Jackson Family Wines, Domaine Serene, and Knights Bridge Wineries.