Don't worry I'll still do a wine pick tomorrow. I also want to point out that Spring is pure gluttony for wine lovers and charity wine events.
I'm on a bunch of email blasts for wine events and of course there is localwineevents.com except you have to wade through all the self promotion of shitty local wineries and small wine shops providing a tasting every freaking Saturday. Why can't they limit them to like one posting a month or something like that. Bullshit. None the less.......here are some events that have my attention or just too big to ignore. I started putting some of these on my calendar and thought holy crap there are a bunch coming up.
April 8: American Cancer Society Shave to Save. Says it is a wine tasting and auction. I went last year and didn't see much of a wine focus but it was fun. Moved to Berg Event Space this year. I thought I was attending but if it is tonight......yikes.
April 15: First Downs for Down Syndrome 7th Annual Private Cellar Wine Tasting and Auction. Featuring Doug Frost. Shook, Hardy & Bacon. Former Chiefs players attend. All wine and food related auction makes it the best for real wine and food lovers and Chiefs fans. I'm going to try to attend.
April 16: Outpouring of Hope Wine Extraveganza. Community Services League. Blue Springs. Featuring a tasting with Doug Frost on how to taste wine blind. Looks interesting but the auction is mostly non-wine stuff like most auctions. Probably won't go if I go to the one the day before.
April 18: Blue Valley Educational Foundation Wine Tasting: "Wines of the World". Trezo Vino. Says wine tasting and silent auction. I might try attend. Sunday at 4:30...what else am I doing?
April 29: Corks and Forks. 14th Annual for Harvesters. Probably the largest in town. Has moved to the Convention Center from Union Station. I hate this event now. Too big. Not for real wine lovers. Good cause though. No charm at the convention center.
May 8: St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation Healthy Food & Good Wine. Pretty cool Iron Chef competition and since Somerset is a sponsor I can assume plenty o' Kansas wine to drink and taste? I can't find much on the format of the tasting. Maybe more to come.......
May 27th: March of Dimes Wine Fest. Union Station. This is a pretty good one but becoming much like Corks and Forks.....too damn big means pedestrian wine. I'll probably attend this one because it is such a beautiful venue.
Isn't that freaking amazing? I bet there are some I don't even know about.......JOCOeveryman would give you a free plug (and probably a good word) for a comp ticket :-)
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