Calendar of Events

Have you ever wondered why wine and chocolate go together? Or are you often mystified when selecting a wine to perfectly pair with your favorite chocolate treat? We invite you to join our General Manager, Emily Dunaway, in exploring these questions during our Wine & Chocolate Pairing Class! During this program, Emily will guide you through several different wine and chocolate pairings, demonstrating how different components of wine and chocolate interact on the palate and enhance your tasting experience. Emily will be using an assortment of select chocolates paired with your favorite Mountain Brook wines! Space is limited- reserve your Wine & Chocolate Pairing Class tickets today!

https://www.facebook.com/events/348437472656425/

The Annual Stoobie Awards have become an Asheville Food Scene tradition! Each year in January, the readers of Ashvegas, as well as the food makers, vendors, and venues look forward to finding out who the hand-picked nominees and winners are for culinary and hospitality excellence in the previous year!

READ PAST STOOBIE AWARDS HERE

The 2018 Stoobie Awards will be the FIRST EVER to be announced and celebrated with a LIVE ceremony/party/event that will be packed with food, music, special guests, and of course, the naming of the Stoobie Award winners!

WHEN
Monday, January 28th – 5:30pm to 9:30pm

WHERE
Asheville Masonic Temple
80 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 28801
ashevillemasonictemple.com

WHY
To have fun, while paying tribute to the great people who make up the amazing Asheville Food Scene!

WHO
Produced by: Ashvegas.com / Shay Brown Events / Sprout Consulting / Stu Helm Food Fan / Asheville Masonic Temple

** rescheduled for Feb 4 **

Join us for the inaugural AVL Women and Wine Networking Group! Help us create a community of women who support, grow, lead and of course network with each other. We’ll have regular speakers that inspire, educate and lead to help us grow and create community and…wine. Mark your calendars for the last Tuesday of each month! Want to speak? Let us know.

https://www.facebook.com/events/378149389412530/

$25 per painter

Includes 9×12 canvas
Use of painting materials
Instruction from artist

Please email or message us to RSVP so we know to bring a canvas for you.

We’ll still have wine glasses to paint, too, at $20 per painter. This includes two glasses. Please also RSVP for the glass option.

https://www.facebook.com/events/234388824142669/

Come practice with me every Wednesday evening at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards at 6pm-7pm to get over that crazy mid week hump!

All levels welcome for an upbeat and energizing power flow while focusing on turning inward and cultivating an intention that you can take with you off your mat!

10$ for 60 minute power vinyasa flow and glass of wine!
6pm-7pm Please share and feel free to bring your friends!
DM if you have any questions! Hope to see you there✨✨

https://www.facebook.com/events/1224464734374111/?event_time_id=1224464751040776

Mountain Brook Vinyards is partnering with Yoga 828 for a winter yoga series. Starting on January 9th, Dee O’Brien will be leading an hour of yoga every Wednesday intimately set in our tasting room. Enjoy sweeping views of mountain vistas and the vineyard below while being guided through a beginner friendly series of poses. The class is $20 and includeds a glass of wine. The class begins at 12pm and ends at 1pm. Put your lunch hour to work and join us!

Feel free to purchase your tickets ahead of time, however, walk-ins are welcome.

https://www.facebook.com/events/362167914614739/?event_time_id=362167927948071

Mountain Brook Vinyards is partnering with Yoga 828 for a winter yoga series. Starting on January 9th, Dee O’Brien will be leading an hour of yoga every Wednesday intimately set in our tasting room. Enjoy sweeping views of mountain vistas and the vineyard below while being guided through a beginner friendly series of poses. The class is $20 and includeds a glass of wine. The class begins at 12pm and ends at 1pm. Put your lunch hour to work and join us!

Feel free to purchase your tickets ahead of time, however, walk-ins are welcome.

https://www.facebook.com/events/362167914614739/

$12 growler fills on Wednesdays. Select a wine on draft (some exceptions apply) and fill a plēb 500mL growler for $12. Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.

https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/?event_time_id=859748741052926

El Querubin food truck will be at the winery Friday nights. Pair your favorite wine with one of their Mexican dishes.

https://www.facebook.com/events/314042052574442/

Salsa Y Mas

Asheville’s Monthly Social Every first Friday of the month at a New Location and time !!

Salsa, Bachata, Cha Cha, Kizomba and more..

**9 PM **
Friday January 4th join us for a Sensual Bachata Class with 2umbao!!

***On Deck at 10pm until 1am is DJ Oscar Malinalli **

**Cover Ladies $5 and Gentlemen $7 , Cash only at Door please *** Class included

Location: Urban Orchard Cider Co. South Slope
24 Buxton Ave. Asheville NC

***Bar servers light food, Beer, Cider, & Wine!! *

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https://www.facebook.com/events/276841486359556/

Nationally recognized comedians travel the country tasting local wine and making new fans in this new comedy circuit that brings quality comedy to folks for a fraction of what antiquated comedy clubs demand. Come out for a night of hilarious comedy and great local wines. This comedy tour takes top comedians who you’ve seen on TV and sends them out on the road to perform at wineries throughout the country. Find out which local wines pair best with hysterical laughter when The Winery Comedy Tour comes to your town.

Visit https://www.universe.com/events/M6CQBW?embed=open&ref=universe_facebook_push&eventref=fb_oea for more information and to get tickets

https://www.facebook.com/events/587413575026563/

February 3 (Sunday) at 3pm, doors at 2:15.

**Suggested donation $20**
CDs and merch for sale as well!

Refreshments will be served (with beer and wine) for donations to a local charity.

The original compositions & playing of Up Jumped Three are a collection of varied influences – West Coast jazz, free jazz, & modern/avant-garde. With no drummer, the trio format opens up, allowing the timbre & unique character of each instrument to shine through in an almost ‘chamber music’ type of atmosphere. Up Jumped Three continues to carve out its own space on the AVL jazz scene.

DIRECTIONS TO 721 Streamside Dr, Arden, NC

DIRECTIONS

From I-26 take EXIT 37, LONG SHOALS Rd.

Drive WEST (away from Biltmore Park).

LEFT at the 2nd traffic light @ BREVARD RD. 300 yards.

RIGHT on AVERY’S CREEK RD. There is a cute little white church with a red door on the right at the intersection.

3.5 miles until the road ends at a gate labeled AVERY PARK.

APPLE MAPS and possibly other GPS systems will tell you to turn at Mt. Laurel Rd. DO NOT TURN THERE.

Continue on Avery’s Creek Rd until it ends at the Avery Park gate.

At the call box, if the gate is not open scroll to SPARKS with the A-Z buttons and press CALL. We will buzz you in.

1/2 Mile to the STOP sign.

LEFT on STREAMSIDE DR Go past the first driveway on the right and take the next right, which is a GRAVEL road.

Sally and Lora

721 Streamside Dr Arden, NC 28704

828-654-7357

https://www.facebook.com/events/736348386701146/

District Wine Bar announces their upcoming Winter Dinner and Wine series featuring some of your favorite local, independent restaurants in Asheville. The dinners will take place every Tuesday for 6 weeks, highlighting a different restaurant and chef. The menu is chef’s choice with wines paired from District Wine Bar. The seats will be limited to 12, so purchase your tickets early.

Jan. 22-The Bull and Beggar-SOLD OUT
Jan. 29-Sovereign Remedies-ON SALE NOW
Feb. 5- All Souls Pizza
Feb. 19-Haywood Common
Feb. 26-Vivian’s
Mar. 5-Smoky Park Supper Club

https://www.facebook.com/events/2124830811162036/

Come practice with me every Wednesday evening at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards at 6pm-7pm to get over that crazy mid week hump!

All levels welcome for an upbeat and energizing power flow while focusing on turning inward and cultivating an intention that you can take with you off your mat!

10$ for 60 minute power vinyasa flow and glass of wine!
6pm-7pm Please share and feel free to bring your friends!
DM if you have any questions! Hope to see you there✨✨

https://www.facebook.com/events/1224464734374111/?event_time_id=1224464741040777

Come practice with me every Wednesday evening at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards at 6pm-7pm to get over that crazy mid week hump!

All levels welcome for an upbeat and energizing power flow while focusing on turning inward and cultivating an intention that you can take with you off your mat!

10$ for 60 minute power vinyasa flow and glass of wine!
6pm-7pm Please share and feel free to bring your friends!
DM if you have any questions! Hope to see you there✨✨

https://www.facebook.com/events/1224464734374111/

Season’s at Highland Lake will be hosting Wine Down Wednesday from January through April with half priced bottles of wine under $50 with the purchase of a main course lunch item or a dinner entrée!

Follow the link for our wine menu: https://hliresort.com/seasons/menu/drinks-wine/

https://www.facebook.com/events/573217266436525/

$12 growler fills on Wednesdays. Select a wine on draft (some exceptions apply) and fill a plēb 500mL growler for $12. Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.

https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/

$12 growler fills on Wednesdays. Select a wine on draft (some exceptions apply) and fill a plēb 500mL growler for $12. Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.

https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/?event_time_id=859748737719593

Ladies, please join us the first Thursday of every month** for great wine, great friends, and lots of fun!

**July’s event will not be held because of the 4th.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2190909954570744/?event_time_id=2190909964570743

Join Sanctuary Brewing Company and Ben Phan, Guitarist and Songwriter on February 7th, 2018 for an evening of incredible music by an even more incredible person!

A year of jazz conservatory at Virginia Commonwealth University left Ben Phan rebellious: uninspired by the environment and fed-up with the structure, he knew he didn’t want to be an academic musician.

So Phan began his professional career as a founding member of the Richmond Afrobeat Movement, a blend of jazz, funk and African dance music which earned significant attention in the South, including a TV appearance and other media features.

A stint as Musical Director for Free Run Wine Merchants gave Phan a chance to develop his professional skills, setting up musical events for the company, which included solo jazz gigs as well as band arrangements.

Phan then joined a bluegrass and folk band, the Rusty Strings, and discovered the joy in sitting on a porch and singing together with others, simply for the love of music.

In 2014, Phan decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail and his life changed forever. Along with everything else he needed, he carried a mini-guitar on his back and became known by the name “Shredder” because of how he “shredded the guitar” when he played. Five months of travel on foot, 2,668 miles from the Mexican border all the way into Canada, playing for himself and the people he met, transformed his relationship with music. He began writing songs, drawn from his experiences on the trail as well as his past struggles with depression, addiction, loss and love. The music offered hope and solace, to him and to his audiences.

The time on the Pacific Crest Trail renewed Phan’s passion for music. With a prolific body of original work, he returned to Asheville to record his first solo EP, “Hold On, Let Go.” He assembled a band, made up of some of the best musicians in Asheville: besides liking his music, they appreciate the dedication and professionalism Phan brings to his work. The band released it’s debut album, “Dreams in Modern Folk”, to a sold out crowd at the Altamont Theatre, one of Asheville’s finest listening rooms. The band continued to perform successful shows over the following year, refining their high energy sound which combines fiery improvisation with rich composition. This led to a successful kickstarter campaign to fund their next album, “Fear is the Teacher”, which the band is currently recording with Grammy winning producer Matt Williams. Phan continues to perform with the band, as a solo artist, and in collaborations with other musicians; he has also built a successful guitar teaching practice, which he finds a great source of inspiration.

Phan is a prolific poet, songwriter, and guitarist, with the soul of an improviser. He crafts his songs to give room for improvisation, presence, and self-expression in the moment. He believes that the best live music is when everyone playing is co-creating – which means that every one of his concerts offers audiences a different sound and a unique experience.

https://www.benphanmusic.com/

https://www.facebook.com/events/208380323385063/

Join us on Friday, February 8th as we welcome the Contenders back to Wilkesboro. Doors will open at 6:30 with the show starting at 7:30. Local artist Shay Lovette will open the show. The Artisan Cafe will also be open for the show to serve coffee, drinks, beer, wine and handcrafted food.

Folkicana duo The Contenders released their debut full-length, Laughing With The Reckless on November 3rd via Rock Ridge Music. The pair traveled the world in support of the album, the follow-up to their 2014 EP, Meet The Contenders, which explores the perseverance of hope in dark times along with the powerful way that music can connect us to others, the value of maintaining old friendships, and finding comfort in the arms of loved ones.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2164670536884645/

Music to dine by. Sessions with Charlie Hunter and Geoff Clapp on drums in The Upper Room. Special entrees, craft beer and wine served at 6:30 with show starting at 7:30. Call to purchase tickets in advance. 828-430-4343

https://www.facebook.com/events/242438726667659/

Join us for another fun wine glass paint party! Arrive with a design in mind, choose from our examples (Including Valentine’s Day options!) , or let us help you create something unique.

$25 per painter payable via cash or check the day of the party.
We encourage you to RSVP to this event by messaging our business page, Hues of Hendo, or emailing us at [email protected].

Price Includes:
2 wine glass per painter
Use of all painting supplies (paint, brushes, apron, etc.)
Personalized Artist Instruction

https://www.facebook.com/events/366664760803329/

Select a wine on draft (some exceptions apply) and fill a plēb 500mL growler for $12 or a 1L growler for $20. Growler purchase is separate. Carry out only.

https://www.facebook.com/events/859748727719594/?event_time_id=859748734386260

Come practice with me every Wednesday evening at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards at 6pm-7pm to get over that crazy mid week hump!

All levels welcome for an upbeat and energizing power flow while focusing on turning inward and cultivating an intention that you can take with you off your mat!

10$ for 60 minute power vinyasa flow and glass of wine!
6pm-7pm Please share and feel free to bring your friends!
DM if you have any questions! Hope to see you there✨✨

https://www.facebook.com/events/1224464734374111/?event_time_id=1224464737707444

Alright gals, it’s time for hearts, glitter, flowers, bubbly — that’s right, you guessed it – February the 13th is Galentine’s Day! We’ve planned a night you don’t want to miss! Grab your best gal pals and join us in celebrating each other.

Becky, our Hoka rep, will be joining us! She’s bringing Hoka swag for the first 20 women and I’ve heard rumors of games!

Cara, our Brooks guru, will be with us helping with personalized bra fittings and answering any questions or concerns you might have. Every lady attending will receive a $15 voucher, good towards any Brooks bra.

We’ll have wine, bubbly, cheese, crackers, veggies– let’s just say, we will have all the snacks! Plus we will be doing raffles throughout the night!

It’s time for a much needed girls night!

** RSVP from Tickets Available link to reserve your spot **

https://www.facebook.com/events/1178876915602641/

Attention Couples, Singles, Besties…this night is for you!! Bring your besties to the RG on Valentine’s day for an eve of wine, fun and food. We will start the evening with a blind wine, cheese and chocolate tasting at 6:00, then move on to a rousing game of wino bingo. We will have drink and food specials including house made flatbreads for dinner and naughty themed wine cocktails.

$15 gets you a seat at the blind tasting, which starts at 6pm so arrive early! Wino Bingo, Wine Opoly and other board games start at 7pm everyone welcome! Open 4-10pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/477335386127957/