3rd Annual Dare to Pair Food & Wine Challenge

Vote for your favorite food and wine pairing, with delicious appetizers prepared by the students of Cabrillo College's Culinary Arts program and the wines of the Surf City Vintners group of wineries. Walk from winery to winery on the westside (Ingalls and Swift Streets) and sample the delights. This is a benefit for the Culinary Arts program.

The Surf City Vintners group of 13 boutique wineries and tasting rooms offers a vibrant urban wine tasting experience. The individual wineries are in close proximity on the Westside of Santa Cruz on Ingalls Street, Swift Street, and the Old Sash Mill, most in renovated warehouse spaces. The area has become a hip example of urban renewal. The wineries showcase the wines of a group of leading winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and are small, family-owned and operated local businesses. Visitors often meet and talk directly with the winemakers. The Surf City Vintners wineries include:  Bonny Doon Vineyard; Copious Winery; Equinox Champagne Cellar; MJA Vineyards; Odonata Wines; Rexford Winery (formerly Hillcrest Terrace); Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard (including Quinta Cruz); Silver Mountain; Sones Cellars; Storrs Winery and Vineyards; Trout Gulch Vineyards; Vine Hill Winery; Vino Tabi. For more information, see the group website at www.surfcityvintners.com.