By Kwon Mee-yoo

Kenneth Kim Vineyards in Anseong, south of Seoul, offers a wine tasting event, Saturday. The local winery produces red and white wines, a sherry and a port for the domestic market, using locally-grown Muscat grapes.

The tour embarks at 9:30 a.m. at Lotte Hotel in downtown Seoul and visits a historic catholic mission before arriving at the winery. Kim will give a brief lecture on wine making, while guests can taste wine straight from aging barrels.

Kim is a wine expert who also has vineyards in Santa Cruz, California, and contributed wine columns to The Korea Times in the 1990s

After the wine tasting, a lunch of Korean food paired with wine will be served, followed by a Korean folk dance performance. The tour will arrive back in Seoul at 5 p.m.

The event costs 80,000 won. For more information, visit www.anseongwine.com or contact ken@kennethkimvineyards.com.