September 10 - Italian Wine Dinner – Tuscany and Avignonesi Estate

Solare Italian Wine Dinner Wednesday, September 10 — with Avignonesi Estate in Montepulciano, Tuscany.

Click here to reserve your table.

Learn all about this beautiful region within Tuscany – Montepulciano. You will enjoy one of the very best wines from the region, the single-vineyard 100% Sangiovese “Poggetto di Sopra”.  This wine is incredible!

Meet Davide Visentin of Avignonesi Estate as he leads this evening featuring select wines including Sangiovese, a 100% Merlot wine, and other grapes from the winery. 

Avignonesi is extremely focused on biodynamic farming and you will see why with this pairing of Solare cuisine!

This will fill up very quickly. Call 619-270-9670 or click here to RSVP.

Wine Dinner Details:

• September 10, Wednesday
• 6:30pm Reception & 6:45pm Dinner
• $98 includes the 4-course pairing dinner and 5 select wines
• Focus on Italian Sangiovese and their 100% Merlot (fabulous) from Montepulciano
• Click here to hear all about this Wine Dinner
• Reserve your table asap – limited seating

RSVP by calling 619-270-9670 or clicking here to send us an email.

Hope to see you ~ you’ll love meeting Davide and enjoying the wines!

-Randy and the Solare Team

August 27 - Napa Valley Wine Dinner ~ Keenan Winery with Michael Keenan

Announced!  We have a wonderful Napa Valley Wine Dinner that is happening on Wednesday, August 27.

We are very lucky to have the Winemaker and Owner of Keenan Winery, Michael Keenan, here to lead the dinner.

Note that Michael got us 3-liter bottles his Estate Merlot Reserve. We love the large format bottles!

As an additional special highlight – Michael is pouring rare “Capstone” wine. He feels it is his “crowning achievement” as a winemaker.

He only made it in 2020 and he has stated he will not make it again. 2020 was a blessed vintage for Keenan when everything came together beautifully. We are lucky to have it at the dinner.

Michael Keenan is a passionate and fascinating speaker. You’ll love meeting him – and having a direct connection for the next time you visit Napa Valley. 

Click here to Reserve your seats – or call us at 619-270-9670.

Here are the details:  

• Wednesday August 27
• 6:30pm Reception followed by Dinner
• Michael Keenan (owner & winemaker) leads the dinner
• $98 includes 5 select wines from Keenan Estate and 4-course menu designed by Exec Chef Denice Grande
• Dinner includes the rare Capstone release
• We also have 3 liter bottle of their Estate Merlot Reserve.  We love large format 3 liter bottles!!
• Learn all about the wines of the Spring Mountain District

This dinner will sell out – everyone loves Michael and his wines from Spring Mountain are fabulous.  He is the “voice” of Napa’s Spring Mountain.

Hope you can join!

-Randy and the Solare Team

August 19 - Italian Wine Dinner – Tuscany – Poggio del Moro Estate

As Tommy highlights in his video overview (see link below), we are delighted that we have confirmed an Italian Wine Dinner with Poggio del Moro Estate – Tuscany!

The dinner is Tuesday, August 19

And This dinner is especially cool for three key reasons:

• We have Luigi Pagoni here in San Diego for one-night – and Luigi is both the Winemaker and Vineyard Manager. This is rare that someone with this knowledge of the terroir and vineyards is available for a wine dinner. I am excited!
• Their wines are delicious – and we have been able to order library selections including their 2016 Riserva and 2014 Super Tuscan. Wow!
• This estate is located in the Val d’Orcia area of southern Tuscany – just south of Siena. This is definitely one of the most gorgeous areas of all of Tuscany.

Join us: Click here to RSVP or call 619-270-9670.

Here are all the details:

• Tuesday, August 19
• 6:30pm Reception with Luigi Pagoni followed by Dinner (Go Exec Chef Denice!)
• $92/guest includes the 4-course dinner, 5 Poggio del Moro Estate wines
• RSVP right away if you are interested

Click here for the short video with Tommy describing the evening.

Hope to see you on Tuesday!

-Randy and the Solare Team

July 21 - Wine Dinner – Korbin Kameron Estate on Mt. Veeder Mayacamas Mountains

As you can tell from the video link below, I am most excited to have Korbin Ming here to lead this evening.

We are talking “mountain wines” from the Mt. Veeder Ridge on the Mayacamas Mountain Range.

When Tommy and I met Korbin (the winemaker) – tasted his wines – heard his story – we knew then and there that we wanted to have him at Solare so you could also meet him and experience what he has done.

Join us Monday evening, July 21. Click here to RSVP or call 619-270-9670.

Winery Highlights:

• High altitude – 2300 feet
• Entirely volcanic soil and terroir
• Korbin is the winemaker is very “down to earth” and really shares how these wines are made – super charismatic
• All estate grown – they have 19 acres of wines on an estate of 186 acres (gorgeous location)

Here are all the details:

• Monday, July 21
• 6:30pm Reception with Korbin followed by Dinner
• $85/guest includes the 4-course dinner, 5 estate Korbin Kameron wines
• RSVP right away if you are interested

These are “intensely expressive” wines that really capture the terroir of this elevation on land that straddles both Napa to the east and Sonoma to the west.

Click here for a short video describing the evening.

I hope you can join me and the Solare Team with Korbin on Monday. Love his wines!

-Randy and the Solare Team

July 19 - September 30 - Solare Cooking Classes ~ July, August, and Sept Schedule

Cooking Classes at Solare. Here is our schedule for July, August, and Sept 2025.

Here our latest Cooking Class Schedule.

Class details and prices are found at this link.  The price for each Class includes the hands-on cooking class, wine, and a full lunch.  Limit is usually 12 students per class.

We love doing Cooking Classes here at Solare!

Our Cooking Classes offer a truly hands-on experience allowing each student to create Italian cuisine themselves to make at home.  Our classes are not just a “demonstration”.

The fun typically starts at 10:30am at Solare (10am for some classes) with an Italian-style coffee of your choice.  Italian wine is served for students interested in “cooking with wine”.

• July 19 – Seafood Italian-style + Fish Market
• July 26 – Osso Buco and Risotto
• August 9 – Tomatoes – Fresh Seasonal let’s Cook!
• August 16 – Making Pasta from Scratch – Yes!
• August 23 – Making Pizza from Scratch – Italiano!
• August 30 – Gnocchi, Pesto, and Bolognese
• Sept 6 – Seafood Italian-style + Fish Market
• Sept 13 – Lasagna with Chef Maria
• Sep 20 – Making Pizza from Scratch – Italiano!

The Classes do sell out fast due to the limited size. 

You sign up for a Solare Cooking Class with Tock.   Click here – and select the Class you’d like.

If you have any questions, please call us at 619-270-9670 or email us here.

-Randy and the Solare Team

July 18 - Solare – Best of San Diego Party 2025