Cuisine’s palatable partner is vino, so Newport Beach Vineyards and Winery was the obvious choice for Community Action Partnership’s party benefiting O.C. Food Bank—and oh, what a soirée it was. Live jazz music floated through the air as 145 oenophiles sipped sweet nectar and noshed on savory bites—perfect complements to the estate’s vintage selection. They also snapped pics in the vintage photo booth and were treated to tours of the vineyard—the only one in Newport—and its 2,500-square-foot wine cave. (Yep, it’s the stuff that vino lovers’ dreams are made of.) Then it was back to the wine—and after the final pour, more than $50,000 had been raised for the organization’s work to provide food for the underserved in O.C. Photos by Sherri Bell, Patrick and Peggy O’Donnell, and Alan Woo