Wine dinners coming up

Halcyon offers a Wrath wine dinner Nov. 4, with Claire Marlin of the winery on hand. Among the dishes on the tasting menu: ceviche of hamachi and pickled shrimp, with 2013 Ex Anima Sauvignon Blanc; roasted scallop and butter-poached oysters with 2013 Ex Anima Chardonnay; wild boar bolognese with sweet potato agnolotti and 2012 Ex Anima Pinot Noir; and venison with 2012 San Saba Pinot Noir. $85; 500 S. Tryon St.; 704-910-0865.

Upstream hosts a Dashe Cellars dinner Nov. 12, a four-course meal by chef Scott Wallen. On the menu: hamachi tartare with 2013 Dry Riesling, McFadden Farm, Potter Valley; robata grilled octopus with kabocha squash confit, and 2011 Les Enfants Terribles Zinfandel, McFadden Farm; slow-roasted "lambchetta: with sweet and sour plums and 2011 Zinfandel, Todd Brothers Ranch Old Vines, Alexander Valley; and Asian pear tart with palm caramel and gingered pear gelato and 2009 Late Harvest Zinfandel. $65; reservations required; 6902 Phillips Place; 704-556-7730.