Wanna sip wine with simians? Get drunk with gorillas? Then sign up for the FONZ Young Professional’s first annual “Grapes With the Apes” wine tasting on April 21st.

Sample wines and hors d’oeuvres from Virginia and Maryland wineries and area restaurants; enjoy live music, wine seminars with a local expert, and exclusive access to the Zoo’s Great Ape House.

Oddly enough, proceeds from the event benefit the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund, not an Ape conservation fund.

This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs

Wayan Vota

Married, mortgaged, and soon to be a father, Wayan Vota is in the fast lane to mid-life respectability – until the day his brood finds his intimate journal of global traveling and curses him with the ever-eternal reply “I’m gonna be just like you, Dad!”