• April 4 - 5 -- El Dorado Wineries Passport Weekend
  Wine Education: Featuring plenty of luscious wine and food pairings, barrel tastings, enjoyable art and music, and fun-loving participants. Warm weather and green surroundings along the wine trail add to the excitement of this springtime event.
  Fee: Call for informationTime: Call for information Phone Number: (800) 306.3956

Ongoing Events

• Every Day -- Black Chasm Natural Landmark Tours
  Recreation: This tour consists of a descent of about 60 feet, down five flights of stairs into the large Colossal Chamber. Well-lit stalactites, stalagmites, long helictites, draperies, flowstones, columns and giant keystone bridges lodged high in the walls can be seen. Pioneer-Volcano Road. Call for directions and seasonal hours.
  Fee: $12.95 adults /$6.50 child (ages 3-12)Time: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Phone Number: (866) 762.2837

• Every Saturday -- Wine Tasting and Tours
  Recreation: Every Saturday Double Oak Vineyards & Winery is open for wine tasting, winery tours and retail sales. Picnic facilities are also available. Come visit and spend the day with us. 14510 Blind Shady Road, Nevada City.
  Fee: FreeTime: 11a.m. - 5p.m. Phone Number: (530) 292.3235

• First Saturday of Every Month -- Perry Vineyards Library Tasting
  Wine Education: Join us for a little taste of Perry Creek's past at our library tasting the first Saturday of each month. Tastings are held in our reserve room and consist of three library wines. Excludes event weekends. 7400 Perry Creek Road, Somerset
  Fee: $5 Time: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Phone Number: (530) 620.5175

• TBA -- 4th Annual Fiddletown Heritage Day
  Festival: Best of Fiddletown Wine Competition, live music, Cowboy poetry, lectures, food and vendors. Downtown Fiddletown
  Fee: FreeTime: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Phone Number: (209) 256.3222

• TBA -- Amador Foothill Winery's Open House
  Celebration: Taste our new releases, the 2007 Rosato and 2005 Estate Sangiovese. Enjoy live music and spectacular spring views. 12500 Steiner Road, Plymouth
  Fee: FreeTime: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Phone Number: (800) 778.WINE

• TBA -- 23rd Annual Grass Valley Car Show
  Celebration: Come join us for a nostalgic trip down memory lane, or in this case, Mill and Main Streets. Cars, food and great rock'n roll music make the day a fun event for everyone. The streets of historic downtown Grass Valley are lined with approximately 300 of the finest custom, vintage and antique cars and trucks in Northern California.
  Fee: FreeTime: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Phone Number: (530) 272.8315

• TBA -- 2008 California Ghost Hunters Conference
  The 6th Annual California Ghost Hunters Conference to be held in Sutter Creek, California. We will be investigating a delapidated, dangerously scary, three story haunted castle that lies hidden among the gold mining hills!! Call for further information.
  Fee: $150.00 per personTime: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Phone Number: (408) 244.8331

• TBA -- Vino Noceto 7th Annual Open House
  Celebration: Join us at Vino Noceto for our seventh annual Open House, featuring the formal unveiling of our ten new 2004 vintage wines accompanied by a wonderful lunch, rockin' music by The Esquires, an art show by our multi-talented staff. 11011 Shenandoah Rd, Plymouth
  Fee: Nominal cover chargeTime: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Phone Number: (209) 245.6556

• TBA -- Festival of Wines
  Festival, Benefit: Stroll downtown Murphys, enjoy delectable appetizers and sample extraordinary Calaveras wines from our finest wineries. The wineries will be on hand at each venue to answer questions about winemaking and their own wines in particular. The Festival helps support the Mark Twain St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation and its efforts to improve the healthcare in Calaveras County
  Fee: $30Time: Call for information Phone Number: (209) 754.2603

• TBA -- Calaveras Follies
  Celebration, Benefit: The Calaveras Follies is an outrageously hilarious musical review with local community celebrities as the STARS!. Approximately 400 guests will be greeted with appetizers and no-host bar for pre-show enjoyment. The cabaret-style variety show features fun-loving locals lip-synching popular songs and show tunes on stage at Mark Twain Hall, imitating well-known artists. It is a fundraising event for the Calaveras Youth Mentoring Program.
  Fee: $50Time: 6:30 p.m. Phone Number: (209) 736.2561

• TBA -- AAUW Annual Home Tour
  Historic, Recreation: Featuring unique and historic homes, landmark sites, Amador County Museum, Jackson Cemetery, an Art Show, Tea, and complimentary wine-tasting. Proceeds provide college scholarships for local women and girls, community projects and educational programs.
  Fee: $20Time: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Phone Number: (209) 245.6052