Paint Night and Wine Bar Adventures in NC

My ocean landscape from Paint Night

Enjoying our Penya Rose

Last weekend I traveled down to Fayetteville, North Carolina (home to Fort Bragg) to visit my two best friends/roommates from college. It was really wonderful to see both of them and spend time catching up! On Saturday night we decided to attend a Paint Night class and venture into the wine bar next door afterwards. What could be more fun than painting and sipping on some wine through out the two-hour class?! Well we had a blast painting an ocean landscape and I cannot wait to take another Paint Night class in the future. 

After the class finished we headed into this great, little wine bar next door. In addition to purchasing wine you can also hang out, order a variety of tapas and sample a dozen different wines. You load money onto a card and insert the card into the "wine station," choose which wine and what size pour you would like and out comes a chilled glass of vino. Yum!

My favorite of the wines I sampled was the Penya 2013 Cotes Catalanes Rose from the Languedoc-Rousillon region of France. Composed from a blend of 82% Grenache, 14% Grenache Gris and 4% Syrah. In the glass, it is a light pink in color and has lively aromas of cherries, wild herbs and hints of peach on the nose. Penya Rose is a Provencal in style with crisp acidity and full richness on the palate. Balanced, medium-body and bright on the finish. 

It would pair nicely as an aperitif as well as accompany grilled salmon with summer vegetables, a hearty salad or with creamy cheeses. 

Have a wonderful day!