On two Sundays in March and a Wednesday in April, three well-known local restaurants will host dinners to raise funds to support the services Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People (PHP) furnishes to vineyard and farm workers. Yong-Bum Bae owner, left, and Jina Bae, Chef of A-RU Restaurant, discuss the menu and wine pairings for their March 14 wine dinner to benefit People Helping People (PHP) along with the organization’s CEO Dean Palius.
All of the dinners will be multi-course with each course paired with a specially selected wine from PHP’s 2009 Vino de Sueños collection. The Vino de Sueños wines were produced and donated by local wineries, specially labeled with original art works, and sold by PHP to raise funds for services to vineyard and farm workers. These wines were first released this past November at PHP’s now annual Vino de Sueños Wine Release Celebration. All of these wines sold out at the release event, except for two cases of each that were reserved for the wine dinners.