OFF-FAIR EVENTS
The Wild Bunch week always includes many dinners, tastings, and parties with participating winemakers and importers, so if you can’t make it to the fair or tickets are sold out, the below off-fair events are a great way to join the fun.
Please note: these events are not put on by The Wild Bunch so please contact the individual venues
for more details, reservations, tickets, etc.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29:
Acid Compass seated German wine tasting at E&R Wine Shop
with John Ritchie of VomBoden
Thursday, February 29 // 5:30pm
Tickets here
FRIDAY, MARCH 1:
The Wild Bunch Kick-Off Party at Bar Norman
Friday, March 1 // 6-9pm
with an all-Central Euro line up
featuring Black Lamb, Vinum, Rodica, and Blažič
$35 to taste, no tickets, just drop in
Food by Little Brother
Music by Broken Arrow
Sound & Vision wine dinner at Grand Amari
Friday, March 1 // 6pm
$125 for 5 courses with wines
Tickets here
VomBoden tasting at OK Omens
A riesling party with VB’s John Ritchie
Friday, March 1 // 5-9pm
Vertical tasting at Statera
featuring Chardonnays from 2014-2018
Friday, March 1 // 5-8pm
$35 to taste, reservations recommended
Austrian tasting with happy hour snacks at Alpenrausch
with Jessica Gulano of Bowler Wines
Friday, March 1 // 4-5:30pm
Iruai and En Cavale glass pour takeover at Company
with winemakers Chad Hinds and Wolfgang Weber
Friday, March 1 // 6-10pm
Hammerling and Perkins Harter tasting at Heavenly Creatures
with winemakers Josh Hammerling and Shelby Perkins
and alllll the bubbles!
Friday, March 1 // 5-8:30pm
Vincent Wines pours a special flight at Division Wines
with winemaker Vincent Fritzsche
Friday, March 1 // 5-8pm
Natural Wine Legends tasting at E&R Wine Shop
featuring Louis/Dressner, José Pastor Selections and Aphros Wines
Friday, March 1 // 5:30-7:30pm
Tickets here (or at the door)
Pét Project wine list takeover at Xiao Ye
with winemaker Jay Anderson
Friday, March 1 // 5-9:30pm
Cantina Tibaldi pours at Enoteca Nostrana
with winemaker Daniela Tibaldi from Piedmont, Italy
on Nostrana’s heated patio
Friday, March 1 // 6-9pm
Ruth Lewandowski pours at Nil.
with winemaker Evan Lewandowski
Friday, March 1
Jeffrey Alpert Selections tasting at Flor Wines
with importer Chloe Alpert-Lowy
Friday, March 1 // 5-8pm
Subject to Change tasting at Inherent Vine
with StC’s Natalia Kaminski
Friday, March 1 // 4-7pm
Grape Ink and Frenchtown Farms pour at Taborly Wines
with winemakers Jaradi Hadi and Aaron + Cara Mockrish
Friday, March 1 // 4-7pm
Jenny & Francois Selections tasting at Liner & Elsen
a flight of 5 wines with importer Bryan Schlessel
Friday, March 1 // 5-7pm
Caleb Leisure Wines tasting at Lil’ Dame
with winemaker Caleb Leisure
Friday, March 1 // 5:30-8pm
Monument Wines wine list takeover at Dame
with winemaker Tyler Magyar
Friday, March 1 // 5:30-8pm
Buona Notte tasting at Street Disco
with winemaker Graham Markel
Friday, March 1 // 5-8pm
Apéro tasting with Forlorn Hope at Division Winemaking Co.
with winemakers Matthew Rorick and Mara Ambrose
Friday, March 1 // 4:30-6:30pm
Free, but RSVPs requested
TUESDAY, MARCH 5:
Frenchtown Farms pours at Heavenly Creatures
with winemakers Aaron + Cara Mockrish
Tuesday, March 5