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These Chicagoland wine shops host weekly free wine tastings where you’re welcome to sip and sample highlighted vintages.
Just Grapes, West Loop, 2–4 p.m. Saturdays.
Red & White, Bucktown, 2–5 p.m. Saturdays.
Schaefer’s, Skokie, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturdays.
Taste Food and Wine, Rogers Park, 6–7:30pm Mondays and Fridays.
Wine Discount Center, Clybourn Corridor, Barrington, Forest Park and Highland Park, noon–4 [...]
Cheers! Cityscape Bar in River North hosts free drinks tastings:
Wine tasting, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21.
Varietals include Marchetti Verdicchio Classico (Italy), Fess Parker Chardonnay (Santa Barbara County, California), Celler el Masroig Sola Fred (Montsant, Spain), Fattoria Bibbiani Chianti (Tuscany), Elizabeth Spencer Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley, California), and Max Ferd. Richter Mulheimer Sonnenlay (Germany).
Scotch [...]
If you’ve been putting off making New Year’s Eve plans because funds are short, don’t worry. You don’t have to spend a fortune to celebrate the end of 2009. Although, sadly, big municipal celebrations have fallen victim to the economy this year, there are still plenty of low-cost options for Dec. 31. Here are 21 [...]
Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!
Well, nearly. On the third Thursday of each November, the new wine of Beaujolais is uncorked for the world. By French law, Beaujolais Nouveau may be released no earlier than 12:01 a.m. on that date.
More than 65 million bottles, nearly half of the region’s total annual wine production, are [...]
Pinot noir is the queen of red wines.
More than 50 pinot noir producers will pour their wines Saturday, Nov. 14, at the third annual Pinot Days Grand Festival. This is your chance to taste the newly released 2007 vintage, which is being called the best in decades, along with more than 300 pinots, and meet [...]
UPDATE: Congratulations to Elizabeth Towle of Uptown, who won two tickets to Tour de Champagne. Elizabeth was randomly chosen from those who correctly answered our question: The Benedictine monk Dom Pierre Perignon said, “I am drinking the stars,” on first tasting sparkling Champagne.
WE’VE GOT PRIZES. Who said, “I am drinking the stars?” E-mail me [...]
The October harvest of wine events continues.
Osteria Via Stato Autumn Harvest Wine Tasting, River North, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, $20.
Master sommelier and host of “Check Please!” Alpana Singh leads a tasting of 20 autumn harvest wines that pair well with fall ingredients, such as brussels sprouts, apples, pears, squash and pomegranate, exemplified [...]
Quaff your way across Chicago and the suburbs in October with a variety of fall wine events.
Village Vintner Friday Night Wine Down, Carpentersville, 6–10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, no cover.
The first of a series of twice monthly events for wine lovers, featuring live music, food and wines for sale by the glass or bottle. [...]
Oktoberfest season continues, with a lot of Chicago places that aren’t remotely German the rest of the year going all oompah.
Prost! on Paulina, West Lakeview, 6 p.m. TONIGHT.
The restaurants and bars around the Brown Line’s Paulina L stop host an Oktoberfest pub crawl, beginng at The night begins at Frasca Pizzeria and Wine Bar [...]
Greek wines are Louie Alexakis’ passion. The enthusiastic owner of the new Avli Estiatorio in Winnetka says Greece is rising on the world’s vinicultural stage.
At Avli, Alexakis pairs a menu of contemporary Greek cuisine with an all-Greek wine list that goes far beyond the roditis and retsina most people think of when it comes to [...]
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