Drink Wine, Buy Wine, Help the Library, Oct. 1; $25

Support the National Press Club's Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library with your ticket to "Stomp the Presses," a wine and spirits tasting at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1, in the ballroom.

Admission is $25, but Club members get a discount. Email Josh Funk at [email protected] for the discount code. Tickets can be purchased here.

A portion of the ticket sales and proceeds from wine and spirits sales at the event will be donated to the library. Attendees will sample more than 60 wines, beers and spirits from around the world.

Experts from Bell Wine and Spirits will guide attendees among wines, cognacs, beers and spirits, including Piper Heidsieck Champagne, selections from Charles Smith Winery, Cameron Hughes wines, Jefferson bourbond and McCallan scotch.

Each attendee will receive a $5 gift certificate to use at Bell Wine and Spirits.

-- Donna Leinwand, [email protected]