Event

Slow Food Placer Cookout

Join us at Rancho Roble Vineyard for a slow food meal featuring Highland Farms' grass-fed lamb, appetizers, in-season side dishes and Placer plum and blackberry pie. No host bar serving Rancho Roble estate bottled 2006 Barbera, chilled Chardonnay and Cabernet. Proceeds benefit Placer Ag-in-the-Schools and Placer Ag Futures (scholarships for young farmers). $55 per person.

We're thrilled to announce that for appetizers we're hosting a Fig and Grape Tasting courtesy of the Wolfskill USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Winters. Wolfskill crop managers will talk to us about the many varieties of figs and grapes. We'll taste one fig of each type: Common, San Pedro, Smyrna, and Capri, as well as figs grilled with goat cheese, prosciutto, and rosemary. The grapes will represent different colors (rose, black, green) textures (soft, firm and crisp) and flavors (standard seedless, muscat flavor, labrusca/Concord, and possibly a Scuppernong type).

Tickets may be purchased here online or at Persimmon Cafe in Lincoln.