Today: Wine up your week with four vino events

How would you prefer to kick off your weekend -- at a wine dinner, a wine-tasting benefit or a full-blown, three-day wine experience? You're spoiled for choice tonight with four different wine-centric events: Black Pearl, 1529 South Pearl Street, hosts a Pink Wine Dinner -- which is also the Infinite...

By Amber Taufen

May 6, 2010

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How would you prefer to kick off your weekend -- at a wine dinner, a wine-tasting benefit or a full-blown, three-day wine experience? You're spoiled for choice tonight with four different wine-centric events:

Black Pearl, 1529 South Pearl Street, hosts a Pink Wine Dinner -- which is also the Infinite Monkey Theorem's Rose Release Party -- featuring six courses with six wines. It starts at 6:30 p.m. and costs $55; call 303-777-0500 or visit www.blackpearldenver.com.

The Grant-Humphreys Mansion, 770 Pennsylvania Street, is the site of the third annual Wine Tasting with Table 6, which benefits the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. The tasting runs from 6 to 9 p.m. and costs $65. For more info, go to www.coloradocoalition.org/events/details.aspx?id=121.

C.B. & Potts Restaurant, 43 West Centennial Boulevard in Littleton, will host a complimentary Balistreri Wine tasting, which includes light snacks. Learn more at 720-344-1200 or visit www.cbpotts.com.

Or head for the hills: Durango Mountain Resort is hosting the Durango Wine Experience, with wine dinners, seminars, tastings, education and much more. The festival starts today and runs through Saturday, May 8; find all the details at www.durangowine.com.

For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings.

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Amber Taufen has been writing about people, places and things in Denver since 2005. She works as an editor, writer, and production and process guru out of her home office in the foothills.

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