Bonterra Restaurant and Wine Room in Dilworth hosted an Orin Swift dinner in the fall, and will host Hourglass this spring. Kristen Wile/UP

Tickets for this year’s Charlotte Wine + Food Week are now on sale. The annual event — which shifted from Charlotte Wine + Food Weekend last year to reflect its growth — was postponed last spring due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, a series of dinners were held in the fall at restaurants around the city. 

This spring’s festival will take place as usual in mid-April, from April 14 to April 18. Though the Grand Tasting — an event where attendees can taste hundreds of wines — will not take place, other events have been added to better suit events during the pandemic era.

“We are hopeful that with the vaccine rollout and the weather turning better, that people do want to get out and about,” Lauren Deese, executive director of CWFW, says. “But we certainly have no false hopes or illusions that we’re going to be fully open this spring, so that is why we made the decision to further postpone the Grand Tasting.”

New to this year’s lineup is a rosé brunch, which will take place Sunday afternoon at Poplar Tapas and Wine Bar in Fourth Ward. Attendees will sample a variety of rosé styles on the restaurant’s patio. Tasting menu restaurant Counter- will host a dinner with Spire, and Fin & Fino’s Natalie Stewart hosts Davidson Wine Co. owner Lindsey Williams. Following the success of the debut event last year, another sake dinner is also on the schedule. Dinners range from $150 to $195 per person.

This year, as in the previous event in the fall, more local talent will be included due to the difficulty of traveling during the pandemic. The event’s wine auction, which in the past was open only to attendees, will be online and open to the public. 

‘We’re excited and trying to keep the organization solvent and sound,” Deese says. “Our charities first and foremost are top of mind, to raise some funds for them. Hopefully we’ll be just as successful this spring as we were last fall and build the momentum to get back to normalcy and have an even more robust schedule as we move into 2021 and 2022.”

The most popular event is the 1,000-point tasting and dinner, which will take place at The Grand Bohemian Hotel this year. The $500-per-ticket event includes samples of 10 wines ranked 100 points, and is often among the first to sell out. 

According to Deese, ticket numbers will be adjusted if restrictions are loosened in the state before the event takes place. This year’s charities benefitting from the event are GenOne, Mitchell’s Fund, The Learning Collaborative, and The Relatives. See the schedule or buy tickets here.