Where in the Vino: California

Steelbach at Armature Works is hosting Where in the Vino: California on Wednesday, October 21, a five-course wine dinner that takes California's wine regions to the table. The evening runs from 6 PM to 9:30 PM, and the focus is on the diversity of the state's wine country—the kind of variety that's hard to get in one sitting unless someone's doing the sorting for you.

Five courses come out over the course of the night, each paired with a wine from a different California region. The whole thing is guided by sommelier Peter Rusted, who'll walk you through what you're drinking as the meal progresses. It's a long dinner, so you've got plenty of time to settle in and actually hear the stories behind the bottles rather than rushing through them.

If you're not usually one for wine talk, that's exactly why this works. Rusted handles the technical side—the regions, the grapes, the why behind each pairing—so you can just focus on the food and the wine. It turns a dinner into something more like a guided tour of the West Coast, one course at a time.

Steelbach is at Armature Works, 1902 North Ola Avenue in Tampa. The dinner is Wednesday, October 21, from 6 PM to 9:30 PM.