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 soon, 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.
Pouring Passion. Elevating Hospitality. Supporting Community.
Founded by Jen & Luis Reyneri, the Treasure Coast Charity Wine Fest reflects their decades of international hospitality experience as award-winning restaurateurs and sommeliers. Champions of hospitality and community service, they own the award-winning restaurant, The Grove, Cucina & Wine, and the wine shop, Grape Living, in Martin County and are passionate about mentoring the next generation, fostering community through food and wine, and giving back to support local nonprofits. They create premier wine and culinary events that blend exquisite cuisine, carefully curated wines, sommeliers, and stellar entertainment with the shared purpose of giving back.
Fun facts: Jen & Luis homeschooled their two sons, who both work in their family business. The eldest, Makani Kai graduated UCF Magnum cum Laude with a Hospitality Degree & Certificate in Beverage Management & is currently studying for his Master’s in Hospitality & Entrepreneurship with FSU. Makani & his lovely bride still live in Stuart.
The couples’ younger son, Luke Ezra, recently graduated high school early and is studying the art of Italian fashion design at Istituto Marangoni, Milano, in Miami.
The Reyneris have visited all 50 states and the boys hold more passport stamps than most adults. Jen & Luis have visited 17 of Italy’s 20 regions and in 2026, start hosting their wine club on international culinary & wine tours.
Luis was once a Teacher’s Assistant for Julia Child & Jacques Pépin. You may have seen Jen’s OG family travel blog, WordTraveling, or know Jen’s cousin Heimo from the TV Show The Last Alaskans.
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 and Grape Living, Wine & Consign in Stuart, Jen currently serves on the board of the Treasure Coast chapter of the Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association and holds a certificate from Cornell University’s program in Women’s Entrepreneurship.
With over 20 years of experience in marketing and sales, as well as having owned several businesses and hosting creative womens’ retreats, she has championed 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 homeschooled two sons through graduation. Jen 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 has served 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 and Grape Living, Wine & Consign in Stuart. 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, an Italian Wine Trade Association Ambassador and certified Italian Grape Geek.
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.