WOMEN OF WINE WEEK
City Winery
155 Varick St.
March 8-13, $40-$75
212-608-0555
www.citywinery.com
www.divinale.com
We regularly feature great music events at City Winery, but we shouldn’t forget about how the venue got its name. From March 8 through 13, City Winery will be celebrating the women of wine with a festival of tastings, talks, dinners, and other special events. Today, International Women’s Day, features Cristina Mariani-May leading a tasting of Castello Banfi, Italy’s four-time International Winery of the Year that was started by Mariani-May’s grandfather in 1919. On March 9, winemaker Melissa Stackhouse helms a tasting of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from La Crema in Sonoma; on March 10, sommelier and wine director Mollie Battenhouse hosts a Women of Wine World Wine Tour with wine coaches and Cathy Corison, Laura Brunelli, Isabel Ferrando, and Brigitte Roch; March 11 is Working Women’s Evening, featuring food by Anne Burrell and Lee Anne Wong and wine poured by Master of Wine Lisa Granik; Alessia Antinori takes oenophiles on an afternoon Tuscan Wine Tour for lunch, followed at night by a BYOB Dinner Celebrating the Wines of Helen Turley, hosted by Granik, during which you can bring your own wine with no corkage fee; and the party concludes on March 13 with a Charity Grand Tasting of more than seventy wines produced by women, along with seminars, benefiting the Global Fund for Women.