Lock and load: two wine events tonight
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For you vino fans out there, tonight is your night with two events: one’s decidedly low-key and the other pairs an elaborate menu with a highly respected Californian winery. I’ve already mentioned these in the dining newsletter Pitch Forks, but they’re worth repeating.
First is the monthly ODV wine event. ODV is a group open to anyone who likes to drink wine and have interesting conversations. It’s meeting tonight at Cellar 222 in the Performance
Furniture Building at 222 S. 20th Street in the Crossroads.
Performance Furniture has created a cellar where the pouring will take place. In honor of Earth Day, the four wines featured — two Chileans and two Californians — are eco-friendly and at least three of them are organic. There’s also an art gallery on the building’s top floor, showing the pin-up work of Jennifer Janesko. Cupini’s Westport caters the event, which begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 at
the door.
Also tonight, Chef Michael Smith welcomes Sonoma County’s Ramey Wine Cellars for a dinner to celebrate the release of a new “cabernet sauvignon, annum.” The six-course
dinner begins at 7 p.m. with passed appetizers; main courses are at 7:30
p.m. The new Napa Valley cab sauv is served with venison loin and mashed
potatoes; other courses include Alaskan halibut with a Napa claret, and
scallops and fava beans with a Russian River Valley chardonnay.
Tickets
are $175 per person and reservations are required; they’re not available
online so call 816-842-2202.
