At Robert Mondavi Institute In Davis - TASTE: 2015

On Friday, October 9, 2015, The Robert Mondavi Institute and the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts are hosting TASTE 2015. At 4:00 p.m. in the Good Life Garden, regional wineries, breweries, and restaurants will provide complimentary tastings of food and drink accompanied by live music and a silent auction. A portion of the silent auction proceeds will provide funding for Broadening Horizons, a program supporting Chicano/Latino students in the Departments of Viticulture & Enology and Food Science & Technology at UC Davis.

At 8:00 p.m. Grammy-Award Winning Rock Band Los Lobos will perform in the Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall.

• Who: Los Lobos. No longer just another band from East L.A., Los Lobos is one of America’s finest rock bands, and has been for more than 30 years. Whether playing straight-ahead roots rock, traditional Mexican cumbias or pushing into psychedelia, the band has remained consistently soulful, authentic and compelling. Whatever their stylistic forays, it is the live experience that is the true essence of Los Lobos. The twin guitars of Cesar Rojas and David Hidalgo, plus the latter’s remarkable voice, create musical magic. Opening act Alejandro Escovedo is one of the leading lights in his home base of Austin, Texas. He is a singer-songwriter and performer who has moved through punk rock, country and Americana to forge his own distinctive voice.

• What: A lush gathering of regional wineries, breweries, and restaurants, Taste brings together the culinary riches of the Sacramento valley in the Good Life Garden at the Robert Mondavi Institute to benefit UC Davis Students.

• Where: Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science Good Life Garden, 392 Old Davis Road, 392 Old Davis Road, Davis, Calif. UC Davis

• When: October 9, 2015 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., concert begins at 8:00 p.m.

• Why: A portion of the proceeds from this event will support the Latino/Chicano student community at UC Davis.

Registration: http://www.mondaviarts.org/events/event.cfm?event_id=1678&season=2015

About the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at UC Davis

• In 2001, Robert Mondavi, iconic California vintner, made a personal gift of $25 million to the University of California, Davis, to establish the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science within the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. More than a decade later, this generous gift forms the cornerstone of a $100 million state-of-the-art facility that is home to two world-renowned academic departments, Viticulture and Enology, and Food Science and Technology, as well as the UC Davis Olive Center and the Honey and Pollination Center. The institute houses the only LEED Platinum winery, brewery and food-processing facility in the world, and serves as the gateway between UC Davis and a broad community of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, industry professionals and technologists engaged in all dimensions of food-, beer- and wine-related activities.

Media Contact: Stephanie Shimada, shimada@ucdavis.edu, or call (530) 752-4180,
www.robertmondaviinstitute.ucdavis.edu/events