The 19th Annual Abilities Wine Festival is a super-size tasting that spotlights 400 wines from places like Napa Valley, Sonoma County, Italy, France, Australia, Spain, New Zealand and South Africa. Forty gourmet restaurants offer samples, a silent auction features hundreds of worthy items, from vacations to sports memorabilia, and most of the proceeds benefit the Abilities Foundation, which assists Floridians with disabilities. 6-7 p.m. V.I.P. reception ($150 per person), 7-9 p.m. Grand Tasting ($75 per person), Tropicana Field, 1 Tropicana Drive, St. Petersburg. 727-825-3137.
This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2008.
