The owner of renowned Bordeaux First Growth Chateau Haut-Brion is to make an appearance at the Naples Winter Festival.

Prince Robert of Luxembourg will be the star guest at what has now become the largest annual wine auction in the US.

Entering its 12th year in 2012, the Florida-based event will see 65 lots of top wines from around the world, including produce from Bordeaux, Burgundy and regions of Italy.

Prince Robert himself has put forward an astonishing Haut-Brion vertical stretching back to 1921.

Another lot celebrates the 1982 Bordeaux vintage, with examples from Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Beychevelle, Chateau Cheval Blanc, Chateau Latour and Haut-Brion.

Last year saw the Winter Wine Festival auction the "perfection lot", which consisted of 100 bottles of 100-point wines.

A total of $95 million (£60.7 million) has been raised for children's charities in the previous 11 years by the event.