If you follow the LAgant girl, you know that I have a new blossoming interest for wine. I have been to several wine bars and a few classes from Santa Monica to Culver City Downtown LA and even BevMo on Saturdays *wink wink*. Last night however, I had the pleasure in attending a Zuri Wine Tasting in the very urban chic neighborhood of Inglewood. My sorority sisters and I have date nights every other month. Our Goldstar account lead us to the Zuri Wine tasting at Rahmaan’s Art Gallery on Market Street.
This event is what urbanLAgance thrives on because this my friends.......was a jewel. The gallery itself (owned by an awesome gentleman Mecca Ali) has exquisite art pieces that are stylishly coordinated by color and soulful tunes playing in the background.
The host and owner of Zuri Wine events, Tuanni leads you through an introduction of wine appreciation and understanding. She not only makes it easy to understand but the environment is warm making you want to return. She says “Hey we’re friends now. We’ve shared wine together”. We tasted about 4 wines went through the 5S’s of wine and gave our own critique. It was a packed house and Tuanni scaled the entire room while presenting so no one felt left out.
The tasting event is at a GREAT price and is even worth full price! The two options were: $10.00 & BYOW or $17.00. We decided on the more fiscal friendly BYOW options (which I thought was pretty funky to do). Turns out we had the opportunity to share an anecdote on the wine we brought while the group tasted. The idea of me bringing wine to a wine tastings was a bit silly but I was pleasantly mistaken because it gave us a deeper appreciation of weekly wines that we buy. More importantly we had an opportunity to indulge in more wine. The leftover wine you ask: raffled off (the HIGHLIGHT of my night) so I got an chance to taste the best red blend EVER (Apocthic Red) and will head to BevMo after work to purchase.
I will go out on the limb and say that this is urbanLAgance's premiere wine tasting that is in our neighborhood and is quality and worthy. Really I could go on and on about this event and of course everything can be covered so I will be going back. Rewind..and REWINE!!
Maybe you guys can join me February 24th
visit goldstar to purchase wine tasting tix
http://www.goldstar.com/events/inglewood-ca/zuri-wine-tasting-classes-art-and-wine-with-soul.html
*ALSO In celebration of Black History Month Zuri Wine is having a wine field trip to California’s only black and female owned wine tour*
http://www.goldstar.com/events/los-angeles-ca/wine-tasting-trip-to-rideau-vineyards.html
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