For seemingly all of time, vintners in Napa and Sonoma have used wine dinners to show off the fruit of their labors. The problem is, wine dinners tend to be stuffy and boring—that is, unless you wisely choose those with fire dancers, drone shows, and snowstorms that happen on cue.
We’re not making this up.
The aforementioned options are part of the wild and wacky TOWN dinner series (short for Traveling Off-Season For Wine Night). The idea grew out of a conversation a few years ago between friends and winery proprietors Arthur Murray, co-owner of Flambeaux Wine (1333 Jack Pine Rd., Healdsburg), and artist Alexander Harris (who goes by A3l3xzand3r), co-owner of The Harris Gallery Art & Wine Collection (320 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg)…