MIDDLETOWN >> Middletown Art Center (MAC) welcomes Kaz Winery and Smiling Dogs Ranch for the second in the 2017 series of Palette to Palate — an intimate pairing of wine and art. The event takes place tonight, April 8 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Enjoy the wine tastings of Richard Kasmier, of Kaz and Scott Simkover of Smiling Dogs Ranch for MAC’s newest exhibit “A Labor of Love.”
Your $10 cover fee provides wine tastings from both wineries. Additional glasses of wine will be available for $5 per glass. Sip wine, view art, enjoy light refreshments and be immersed in the labors of love from winemakers and participating artists.
Palette to Palate is a new series recognizing that wine makers and artists share the same creative impulse. A vine is planted and nurtured, a concept composed; harvest and crush, forms blocked in; varietals are blended and seasoned, colors and textures stroked onto canvas; through creative alchemy a uniquely flavorful elixir, or work of art, comes into being.
Kaz Winery is a very small, family owned Winery located in Lakeport. Kaz produces a number of varietals and blends using Lake County grown grapes. All of the Kaz wines and ports are sulfite free. He began his winemaking career in Sonoma and moved to Lake County in 2015. Kaz and his wife Sandi, an artist, both love wine and art.
Smiling Dogs Ranch, located in Kelseyville, is the love of Scott Simkover. Smiling Dogs’ growing fields are located in the shadows of Mount Konocti. Simkover’s wines are not only consumer friendly but they are produced and generated by 100 percent Renewable solar or wind energy.
Palette to Palate helps to support educational and community programs at MAC, a non-profit dedicated to creating art opportunities, art education, cultural enrichment, and ecological awareness contributing to the social and economic well-being of Lake County, California. All donations to MAC are tax deductible.
MAC is located at 21456 State Hwy 175 at the junction of Rt. 29 in the heart of Middletown. Visit www.middletownartcenter.org to learn more about exhibitions, classes, events, volunteer opportunities and membership.
