originally published: 07/12/2025
(NEW YORK, NY) -- City Winery NYC presents Sly and the Vine: A Funkadelic Tasting Experience with Vernon Reid of Living Colour on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 7:00pm. Join them for an immersive 8-glass wine tasting perfectly paired with the revolutionary sounds of Sly & The Family Stone—featuring special guest Vernon Reid, legendary guitarist and founder of Living Colour. Get ready for a one-of-a-kind night where rhythm meets the vine.
This isn't just a wine tasting—it's a journey through funk, soul, and cultural history. Vernon will guide you through 8 iconic Sly tracks, sharing personal stories, musical insights, and why each song connects to the flavor, tone, and vibe of a hand-selected City Winery wine.
8 songs. 8 wines.
Whether you're a die-hard Sly fan, a wine lover looking for something fresh, or someone who just wants to groove in a new way—this is your moment.
Tickets are $60 and available for purchase online. Doors are at 5:30pm. City Winery New York is located at 25 11th Avenue (Pier 57) in New York, NY.
Come sip, listen, and celebrate the legacy of one of music’s funkiest icons—through the lens of wine and storytelling.
City Winery is the brainchild of Michael Dorf, founder of the iconic Knitting Factory, one of New York’s longest running music venues, who wanted to create a space in Manhattan where he could combine his shared passions for wine and music. After making his first barrel of wine in California with his brother Josh and winemaker David Tate, formerly of Ridge Winery and now at Barnett Vineyards, Michael caught the bug: "For a long time I'd been enjoying wine as a fan - drinking it, taking classes, attending wine dinners - but it was not until I actually started participating in the process of working with the grape, turning it into wine, putting it into a bottle, and watching it develop over time, that I really started to understand wine. And when I would give my friends a bottle of wine with my name on it, most would respond by saying: 'I wanna do that too!' It was this experience that led Michael to conceptualize and start working on the City Winery business plan in 2006.
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