Pull the Cork on the Best of the Best Wines and Gourmet Food
Saturday, November 14, 2026
The Forest Country Club
Benefiting Lee BIA Builders Care
Join us for an exclusive fundraiser benefiting Builders Care. Experience boutique Chilean & Argentinian wines and Latin-inspired cuisine during this intimate evening of wine and giving, featuring a curated selection of vintners, poured by 5-star Sommelier Heath Porter of Heathen Wine Tours. This tasting is paired with a masterfully crafted four-course menu by Chef Drew Tait at The Forest Country Club.
Experience the best of the best during this intimate evening of wine and giving!
The experience
November 14, 2026
Pull the Cork offers two guest experiences: An exclusive VIP wine tasting with additional boutique wine samplings, followed by the champagne reception and four-course wine dinner (limited seating); or the pre-dinner champagne reception followed by the four-course wine dinner.
The VIP Experience
(Limited Seating)
(Includes the Exclusive VIP Experience, Champagne Reception AND four-course wine dinner)
Kick off this wine-filled soiree with an exclusive VIP experience. Sample boutique wines, enjoy charcuterie and a special presentation from 5-star sommelier Heath Porter of Heathen Wine Tours. Pull the Cork’s VIP Experience includes admission to the full, four-course wine dinner, tasting and auction.
Champagne Reception &
Wine Dinner
A reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres will be followed by a four-course seated dinner, wine tasting and auction. Sip and savor exquisite wines featuring a curated selection of vintners poured by 5-star sommelier Heath Porter of Heathen Wine Tours. This tasting will be paired with a masterfully crafted four-course menu by Chef Drew Tait at The Forest Country Club.
Featured Vintner
B. Wise is a wine project that brings together the best that Sonoma and Napa vineyards have to offer. B. Wise Vineyards sits on top of a ridge that looks down over the Sonoma Valley. They have brough together winemaking expertise that allow them to take the best advantage of their extraordinary vineyard sites. In 2002, they began working with Massimo Monticelli, who came to them from Silver Oak. Mark Herold brings depth their Napa Cabernet Sauvignon portfolio from his pioneering oenology work for Joseph Phelps and his own successful Merus Cabernet. Rounding out the Pinot Noir portfolio, B. Wise Vineyards include an offering from the classic region for that grape, the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Drew Voit, former winemaker for Shea Vineyards in Oregon, works with Massimo on their Pinot Noirs.
Our Caterer
Crave Culinaire
Pull The Cork For A Cause
Lee BIA Builders Care is the nonprofit charitable arm of the Lee Building Industry Association (Lee BIA). The mission of Lee BIA Builders Care is to provide emergency construction services at no cost to needy and deserving elderly and/or disabled homeowners, and their families, who cannot obtain repairs through traditional means.
Lee BIA Builders Care offers a full range of emergency construction services to improve the safety and health for seniors and individuals with disabilities. This is accomplished by enlisting the expertise and donated services and material of Lee BIA Members, contractors, sub-contractors and businesses.
To date, Lee BIA Builders Care has provided $6.1 million in construction services at no cost to local homeowners in need.
