Halloween Candy & Wine Pairing

Turquoise Wine Bar is doing a Halloween candy and wine pairing on Saturday, October 31, from 2 PM to 9:30 PM. The whole day is built around the pairing, so you can drop in whenever you're around Roosevelt and work your way through it.

The pairing puts wine and candy together, which is a bit of a gamble for the palate—sweet on sweet, or maybe something tart to cut through. It's the kind of thing that works better when you're actually tasting it than when you're thinking about it. The bar describes it as a pairing that tests the palate while leaning into the holiday's festive vibes, so it's as much about the experiment as it is about the wine.

Costumes are welcome, so if you've already got something put together for the night, you can wear it in the afternoon too. It's a long window—seven and a half hours—which means you don't have to rush. You can come by for a couple of glasses and a few sweets and head out, or hang around and make a whole afternoon of it.

Turquoise Wine Bar is at 504 E Roosevelt St in Phoenix, and the pairing is $25. It runs from 2 PM to 9:30 PM on Halloween day, so you've got plenty of time to get your tasting in before the actual party starts.