Vinino wine dinner tonight

If you weren’t able to make it to see Dr. Seps at 801 Chophouse last night but had your heart set on attending a wine dinner in the Power & Light District this week, Vinino’s Wine Bar has a four-course, four-wine monthly dinner tonight at 7.

The $45-per-person meal doesn’t have a cutesy theme, nor is it tied to any event, but sometimes that’s for the better. A special dish or the right wine could turn another boring Wednesday night into one you’ll never forget.

The meal starts with a mushroom and bacon soup and grilled vegetable salad, each paired with a 2006 wine: the soup with 2006 Domaine Chanson Bourgogne Rouge or to put that into English, a real pinot noir from Burgundy. The salad is paired with an Italian white.

The main course is braised lamb with cannellini beans mushroom ragout and crispy artichoke hearts, paired with a zinfandel from California. (Quick tangent: Seps said that all zinfandels are in fact from America since the government refuses to allow zinfandel that’s imported to America be called that. For example, Italians call wine sold in America made from the zinfandel grape primitivo. So the word “zinfandel” on the bottle like the Cartlidge & Browne served with the lamb means made in the good ol’ USA.)

Finally, for dessert, is a wild berry mousse with a 10-year-old tawny port. For a refresher on port terms, click back to this Fat City post.

Subscribers to our weekly Pitch Forks newsletter already know about at least two other wine meals this week. This one is the cheapest in terms of price but not in terms of wine. To RSVP call 816-674-4137.