Total Wine and More, the new wine super store at Walter's Crossing, hosts a decadent wine fundraiser, Total Experience. The event features premium wines from around the world, tasty hors d'oeuvres, desserts created by some of Tampa's best pastry chefs, a chocolate fountain by Schakolad, ice sculptures, cigar rolling, and a silent auction with unique items like a seven-day cruise from Vienna, Austria, to Nuremberg, Germany. Proceeds benefit the March of Dimes, a national voluntary health agency devoted to improving the physical wellbeing of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality via research, community services, education and advocacy. Thurs., Dec. 8, 6:30 p.m., Don Vicente De Ybor, 1915 Republica de Cuba, Tampa, $75, 813-287-2600.
This article appears in Dec 7-13, 2005.