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Côte Bonneville Winemaker Dinner
Wed May 29 at 6 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
It’s a dinner paired with Bordeaux-style blends from Yakima Valley’s DuBrul Vineyard, hosted by winemaker Kerry Shiel. $150 plus tax and gratuity.
Manhattan Mondays
Mon at 4 pm–2 am.Beer/Wine/Booze
Every Monday the BottleNeck serves $5 Manhattans made with Evan Williams. Cheers! $5.
10-Buck Bottle Night
Tues.Beer/Wine/Booze
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Every Tuesday at the BottleNeck Lounge, a bottle of a featured red or white wine costs only $10.
Drinking Liberally
Tues at 8 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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A weekly evening of liberals, drinking, almost always including The Stranger's own Goldy. Free.
Sake Nomi's Wii Wednesdays
Wed at 6 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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Every Wednesday, patrons at Pioneer Square's awesome sake bar/shop Sake Nomi battle for virtual supremacy in games like Wii Sports Resort. Obliterate the competition with your dynamite hand-eye coordination and cat-like reflexes, or just behold the frenzy with a glass of sake in hand. Starred for sake and/or Wii lovers.
Free Wine Tasting at Esquin Wine Merchants
Thurs, 5–6:30 pm, Sat, 2–5 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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Behemoth SODO wine emporium Esquin offers free wine tastings every Thursday and Saturday, with themes like "92 Points and Above," "Viva Argentina," and "Under $10 Specials." Sometimes winemakers join in, and snacks are not unheard of. Check their website to find out which wines they're uncorking. Free.
Post Alley Wine Hop
Thurs, 5–7 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
Slosh down Post Alley for the Thursday Wine Hop, where $4 glasses of unspecified wine are served from 5 to 7 pm at Kells, Post, the Tasting Room, and the White Horse Trading Co.
Free Wine Tasting at West Seattle Cellars
Thurs, 5:30–8 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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West Seattle Cellars hosts an informal, regionally themed wine tasting in its little house on California Avenue every Thursday. When the tasting coincides with the West Seattle Art Walk (on the second Thursday of every month), it's partytime. Check their website to find out which wines they're uncorking. Free.
Free Vino Verite Wine Tasting
Thurs, 6–8 pm, Sat, 6–8 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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Every Thursday and Saturday, Vino Verite hosts a casual wine tasting that will not part you from any of your money. Free.
Two-Martini Lunch
Fri at 11:30 am–3 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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Gone are the days when drinking cocktails in the middle of your workday was considered acceptable—except every Friday at Vito’s, where imbibing is encouraged with $7 martinis.
Free Wine Fridays on 15th
Fri, 4–7 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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European Vine Selections, aka "the wine shop on 15th," has been an unintimidating resource for good wine (with lots of bottles under $10) on Capitol Hill for 25 years, and every Friday they host a free wine tasting from a different region. One person you may find pouring is EVS partner Doug Nufer, who is a civic treasure of both friendly, low-key wine knowledge and experimental writing. Free.
Free Wine Tasting at Champion Wine Cellars
Sat at 11 am–5 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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Champion owner Emile Ninaud possesses Seattle's very first wine license: He opened in 1969 and works there to this day. Champion's wine tastings—from the more than 1,500 bottles in stock, with tons from France—are all about "obscure wines from obscure regions," he says. Though he's French by birth, he's made Champion a snobbery-free zone, with wine novices welcome and an emphasis on good value for whatever your budget may be. FREE.
Free Wine Tasting at McCarthy & Schiering
Sat at 11 am–5 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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McCarthy & Schiering claims to be the oldest wine shop in Seattle; it is not. But they were recognized as retailer of the year by Food & Wine in 1998 and as one of the "top 10 small specialty shops featuring wines from Piedmont and Tuscany” by GQ in 2004. They offer free wine tastings at both their Ravenna and Queen Anne stores every Saturday, with winemakers often there for discussion purposes. Free.
Free Wine Tasting at DeLaurenti
Sat, 2–4 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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The great DeLaurenti Specialty Food & Wine in Pike Place Market offers free wine tastings upstairs in their wine department every Saturday, and—bonus!—the nice people there pair the selections with some of their more than 250 kinds of cheese, samples from their wall of olive oils, and other assorted tastinesses. Past tastings have included ports paired with Stilton cheese and (separately) Veuve Cliquot champagne (!). Check their website to find out which wines they'll be uncorking. Free.
Free Wine Tasting at Portalis
Sat, 2–6 pm, Sun at 11 am–4 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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Civilized but not-too-schmancy wine shop Portalis offers free tastings on Saturday and Sunday. A lot of regulars show up, particularly Ballard-farmers-market shoppers on Sundays. Those people sound smart. Free.
$12 Cava on Sundays at Cure
Sun 4 pm-2 amBeer/Wine/Booze
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Cure would like to invite you to “celebrate or lament” the end of your weekend with a $12 bottle of Cava (Spanish sparkling wine) on Sundays. Starred for cheap bubbles on the Lord’s day. $12.
Geeks Who Drink
Ongoing.Beer/Wine/Booze
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Geeks Who Drink is a company that hosts trivia quizzes at different bars every damn day of the week, here in Seattle and all over creation, usually free (except for bar owners, who pay a "reasonable" rate). Starred for geeks who drink who like pub trivia.
Happy Hour!
Ongoing at 4 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
Literally millions of happy hours are taking place around Seattle RIGHT NOW. One is highly likely right under your all-too-sober nose: Find out where it is here (for iPhone users) or here (for Luddites). Food! Drinks! Cheapness! Yes! CHEAP!.
Capitol Hill Trivia Crawl
Wed, 5:30–9 pm, Sun, 4:30–8 pm.Beer/Wine/Booze
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Brought to you by the people behind the World's Greatest Seattle Walking Tours, this is not only the world's greatest, but also the world's only, trivia crawl—so you are forgiven for not knowing what a trivia crawl is. It is: walking to three Capitol Hill bars, quaffing beers, and playing pub quiz night-style trivia at each stop. Also: prizes! $20, excluding drinks.
Game Night at BottleNeck
Sun at 4 pm–2 am.Beer/Wine/Booze
Sundays are Game Night at BottleNeck: They supply Apples to Apples, Scrabble, Cards Against Humanity, and Uno, plus a NES hooked up to the TV. If none of those appeal (or you don’t like to share), feel free to bring your own.
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