Future in Bloom: After 32 years, the Manhattan Wine Auction has become the community's annual celebration of its schools, its mission, and itself.

Future in Bloom: After 32 years, the Manhattan Wine Auction has become the community's annual celebration of its schools, its mission, and itself.

Any early evening on a late spring day in Manhattan Beach is already a wonder to behold. The briskness in the air and the golden sheen of the day’s slow-departing sunshine anoint the coming night with a feeling of celebratory ease. But on one such night every May or early June, an actual celebration occurs. It is a gathering unlike any other, without which Manhattan Beach would be a lesser place. At the Manhattan Wine Auction, nearly 2,500 of th…