Red wine doesn't always have to be big, bold, and room temperature.

Join us at Symposium Wine Bar as we explore the delicious world of chillable, crushable red wines - lighter-bodied reds that shine when served slightly cool. These are the wines made for patios, picnics, summer dinners, and easy conversation.

During this guided tasting, we'll sample a curated lineup of reds from around the world while discussing what makes a wine "chillable," how temperature impacts flavor, and why these refreshing styles are becoming some of the most sought-after wines of the season.

Whether you're a devoted red wine drinker or someone who usually reaches for white or rosé in the warmer months, you'll leave with a fresh perspective on red wine, and a few new favorites to enjoy all summer long.

Expect great wine, engaging conversation, and Symposium's relaxed, approachable style of learning.

We'll taste through wines accompanied by cheeses and charcuterie. Wine and beer from our menu will be available for purchase at the bar, after class, until 9 p.m.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and class starts at 6:15.

Cheers to warm days and coole reds! 🍷

Tickets are going fast! Purchase them HERE

(This is a rescheduled class)

Join us in this springtime class where you will get 7 sugar cookies to decorate. In this guided class, you’ll go step by step to show you the sugar cookie way- flooding consistencies, using wet on wet techniques for fun effects and how to use a stiffer consistency for final details. To finish, you’ll be able to bring your cookies home, and you’ll also receive our royal icing recipe to practice your cookie decorating skills at home!

The wine bar will be open for drinks and light refreshments to purchase and enjoy while decorating.

Age minimum on this class is 8 years and up. In this particular class, all persons in the room must have a ticket to participate, due to limited seating.

Learn more, and purchase your tickets HERE

Led by manifestation practitioner Lisa Coppola, this guided workshop blends reflection, visualization, creativity, and practical mindset work to help participants gain clarity and move forward with greater purpose. While manifestation can sometimes sound abstract, many of the practices explored (visualization, intentional focus, written goal-setting, and pattern awareness) are rooted in well-studied psychological and behavioral principles.

Through guided prompts and hands-on creative exercises, you’ll begin building a personal “vision book” designed to help you clarify goals, reconnect with what matters most, and create with intention.

Tickets are $35 and includes:

• A welcome mimosa (low-proof option available)

• Vintage books and soft-cover notebooks that transform into your vision book

• Guided prompts and facilitation

• Magazines and materials

• A take-home prompt sheet to continue the process after the workshop

What to bring:

• A pen

• Scissors

• An open mind

Get your tickets HERE

“First Sundays” Jazz Brunch Series is winding down for the season and we’re so excited to have the Max Kilijanski Trio with us! On Sunday, July 7 we welcome Max Kilijanski on percussion, Shea Antonicelli on keyboard and Chris Stoll on vocals.

Max is a local musician, producer, and music teacher. He loves Rock, Jazz, Latin, and Pop music and also writes his own songs. Music has been his lifelong passion. He plays 9 instruments and teaches guitar, piano, bass, drums, and voice.

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Come down to West Main Street in the Village of Lancaster for the first of 4 live concerts on the street! Tequila Sunrise, Eagles and Tom Petty tribute band will be performing from 6-10 p.m. and of course, we have Ed Wyner live at Symposium from 4-6 p.m. before the main event! We’ll have delish food and drinks, and remember - beverages available to go!

Let’s kick off Lancaster’s first summer concert with a couple hours of great music, cocktails, food and wine!

Join us on Sat. 5/23 from 4-6 p.m. for a pre-concert set with Ed Wyner at Symposium, before the street fills up and the music starts.

Reservations recommended - reserve a table HERE

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Join us for live music by Ed Wyner at Symposium! You know him as lead vocalist "Milton Wild" in Nerds Gone Wild, but we get him all to ourselves for a three-hour set from 6-9 p.m. performing all of your favorites. Join us for holiday cocktails, wine, beer and delicious food specials! Reservations welcome! * trivia cancelled for this event*

Join us in this springtime class where you will get 7 sugar cookies to decorate. In this guided class, you’ll go step by step to show you the sugar cookie way- flooding consistencies, using wet on wet techniques for fun effects and how to use a stiffer consistency for final details. To finish, you’ll be able to bring your cookies home, and you’ll also receive our royal icing recipe to practice your cookie decorating skills at home!

The wine bar will be open for drinks and light refreshments to purchase and enjoy while decorating.

Age minimum on this class is 8 years and up. In this particular class, all persons in the room must have a ticket to participate, due to limited seating.

Learn more, and purchase your tickets HERE

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

“First Sundays” Jazz Brunch Series at Symposium continues this May with the talented John Hasselback, Jr. on trombone and Lisa Hasselback on keyboard. Reservations are highly recommended.

John Hasselback, Jr. began his musical career at an early age, performing with his father as a young teenager. He received a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from the Hartt School of Music, where he studied both Classical and Jazz Music, and apprenticed with the legendary Jackie McLean. He has since received Education and Graduate degrees from SUNY Fredonia and Empire State College. John has been very active as a performer, working across the United States and Europe with many noted Jazz artists including Jaki Byard, Don Menza, Maynard Ferguson, Roswell Rudd, Gap Mangione and Chuck Mangione. He is a featured soloist on recordings with Gap Mangione, Kenny Wheeler, and Don Menza. Recently, John was a featured member of the Don Menza Quintet, performing in Munich Germany, and performed as a member of the Ron Carter “Great Big Band” at Birdland in New York City. He has served as an Artistic Director for the Buffalo Jazz Collective, dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and advancing the rich Jazz heritage of Western New York.  John has been named "Top Jazz Trombonist in Western New York" by the JazzBuffalo poll numerous times, since the poll’s inception in 2014. John is currently in his 22nd year at West Seneca Central Schools, where he is the director of the Jazz Ensemble at West Senior High School and serves as the coordinator of the district's annual Jazz festival. Additionally, he serves as the Erie County Music Educators Association Chairman for Jazz.

Texas native, Lisa Hasselback received her high school education at Interlochen Arts Academy where she studied piano, oboe and mallet percussion.  She attended The Hartt  School of music at the University of Hartford and received her Bachelors degree in African-American Jazz Studies under the leadership of alto saxophonist, Jackie McLean. She received her master’s degree in Education from Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.  She has taught elementary and middle school general music since 1988 and has been employed by Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda Union-Free School District since 1990.  Presently she teaches vocal music to kindergartners, 1st and 3rd graders at Hoover Elementary School. Lisa has played with the Buffalo Philharmonic Pops Orchestra for trumpeter Byron Stripling and vocalist Marva Hicks, The New York Voices, Liz Callaway singing the Carole King songbook; the American Idol winner, Melinda Doolittle; the concert opener for Gladys Knight, the BPO Prohibition Concert featuring vocalists Bronson Norris Murphy, Madison Claire Parks and Myra Maud and most recently she was a featured soloist for the Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole tribute concert entitled Unforgettable with vocalists Dee Daniels and Denzal Sinclaire.  Lisa has toured with The Four Lads, The Four Aces and The Chordettes.  She has played for Bob Newhart at Chautauqua Institute and with Houston Person at the Albright-Knox Summer Jazz Series. Through the years she has played in big bands and jazz festivals in the Buffalo area and continues to teach private lessons.  

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Get ready for a night of literary delights and bookish camaraderie at our bi-annual Book Swap! Join us for an evening of swapping stories and sharing reads as you pass on well-loved books and get new-to-you books in return.

A fun twist for this event - after our swap, we’ll be taking a field trip over to Vibe Yoga’s bookstore, “Books & Breath” for some literary shopping. Holly, owner of Vibe Yoga, is offering a 15% discount off of your purchase that evening! (It’s just a few steps from Symposium)

How the swap works:
You can bring up to 5 gently used books that you LOVE and are ready to pass along to a new reader. Any kind of book is welcome – fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks, self-help, how-to, mystery, thriller, “contemporary romance” *wink, wink*

Before you arrive:
Write a sticky note with what you loved about the book and stick it on each cover.

Upon arrival:
You will “shelve” your book based on its genre and browse the book selection while sipping on wine, beer and cocktails, and chatting with fellow book enthusiasts. When it’s time to swap, you will be able to select up to as many books as you brought. If there are books remaining at the end of the swapping rounds, they will be open to all.

Your ticket includes delish cheese and charcuterie to snack on.

The bar will be open to purchase wine, beer or mocktails and cocktails.

Grab tickets HERE

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Join us for an in-depth exploration of Bordeaux, a region that has shaped the way the world understands wine.

We’ll taste through a curated selection that showcases Bordeaux’s full range, from a refreshing sparkling, to expressive whites and classic reds built on some of the most important grape varieties in the world. Along the way, we’ll break down what makes Bordeaux unique: its geography, its blending traditions, and the balance between Old World structure and modern drinkability.

This class is designed to be approachable, engaging, and most importantly, delicious!

We'll taste through wines accompanied by cheeses and charcuterie. Wine and beer from our menu will be available for purchase at the bar, after class, until 9 p.m.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and class starts at 6:15.

Tickets are going fast! Purchase them HERE

“First Sundays” Jazz Brunch Series at Symposium continues this April with the incredibly talented Elliott Scozzaro Duo featuring Elliott on saxophone and George Caldwell on keyboard. Reservations are highly recommended.

Elliot Scozzaro is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator from Buffalo, NY. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Capital University in Columbus, OH and a Master of Music in Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas (UNT), where he played lead alto saxophone in the seven-time Grammy-nominated One O’ Clock Lab Band. In 2016, Elliot was named a semi-finalist in the North American Saxophone Alliance Jazz Competition. After spending several months in the great city of Chicago, Elliot joined the renowned Glenn Miller Orchestra in January 2018.

For several months in early 2019, Elliot played woodwinds in the showband on the American Duchess, a riverboat based on the Mississippi River. Afterward he returned to Buffalo, where he maintains a busy schedule as both a leader and sideman throughout the Western New York region. Elliot is currently on faculty at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia and Buffalo State University and also serves as the Program Coordinator for the Buffalo Jazz Collective, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and advancing the rich jazz heritage of Western New York.

George Caldwell is a grammy-award winning jazz pianist. Highlights of his career as a jazz pianist include: a stint with tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan; piano chair of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and touring the globe with the renowned Count Basie Orchestra. He garnered a Grammy in 1996 for the cd Live at the Manchester Craftsman’s Guild. His Broadway, National and European Tours include Black and Blue, and Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk. He has shared the bandstand with Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, Shirley Bassey, Quincy Jones, Joe Williams, George Benson, Kenny Garrett, Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Lou Rawls, Lionel Hampton, George Coleman, Roy Hargrove, and Bobby McFerrin. Caldwell has also performed at major jazz festivals and in the great concert halls of the world.

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Join us for live music by Ed Wyner at Symposium! You know him as lead vocalist "Milton Wild" in Nerds Gone Wild, but we get him all to ourselves for a three-hour set from 6-9 p.m. performing all of your favorites. Join us for holiday cocktails, wine, beer and delicious food specials! Reservations welcome! trivia cancelled for this event

Rosé is far more than a seasonal pour, it’s a reflection of place, grape and winemaking style!

As we welcome the arrival of spring, join us for the Wide World of Rosé as we taste through a curated selection from around the world. We’ll compare regions, grape varietals, and production methods to uncover how climate, technique and tradition shape what ends up in your glass.

From mineral-driven and delicate to textured and expressive, this class will expand your understanding of what rosé can be, and how to pair it with confidence all season long.

We'll taste through wines accompanied by cheeses and charcuterie. Wine and beer from our menu will be available for purchase at the bar, after class, until 9 p.m.

Doors open promptly at 6 p.m. and class starts at 6:15.

Tickets available HERE

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Back by popular demand - Tim Britt Live at Symposium! Tim’s back, playing and singing a wide variety of your favorites from 7-10 p.m. - Don’t miss out!

In honor of International Riesling Day, join us in Symposium's private room for an intimate, guided tasting designed to challenge everything you thought you knew about this iconic grape. We’ll explore five distinct expressions of Riesling from different corners of the world, comparing dryness levels, structure, aromatics and the role of acidity.

Each ticket includes:
• Five curated Riesling pours
• A full glass of your favorite from the tasting
• Mini charcuterie and cheese pairings
• Guided discussion in an intimate limited-seat setting

The tasting concludes in time to transition into live music with Tim Britt at 7 PM...and perhaps another glass.

Tickets are extremely limited!

Purchase Tickets HERE

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com

“First Sundays” Jazz Brunch Series is BACK for it’s third season at Symposium! Our second Jazz brunch welcomes the George Kane Duo, featuring George on trumpet with Wayne Moose on acoustic bass.

George Kane has been a well-established jazz guitarist in the Western New York area for the past thirty years. He regularly performs with the area’s finest musicians in various venues and styles. A graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, George studied with William Leavitt, Guitar Department Chair and author of A Modern Method for Guitar. In addition to performing, George operates a private teaching practice. 

Wayne Moose is a jazz double bassist based in Buffalo/Niagara, active as a performer and music teacher for over 20 years. He’s known locally as a fixture in the Buffalo jazz community, performing regularly with ensembles including his own groups and collaborations with other respected area jazz artists such as Devin Kelly, George Kane, Tim Clarke, and vocalist Cindy Miller. Wayne has served as a host of weekly jazz sessions featuring local and visiting musicians at venues like Mezza Restaurant on Elmwood Avenue, helping bring live jazz to Buffalo audiences. He leads and performs with ensembles such as the Wayne Moose Quartet, playing jazz standards from the Great American Songbook and bossa nova/samba repertoire at community events and museum series like those at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Grab your smartest friends and join us for DJ Trivia every Thursday starting at 7 p.m.! If you’d like to make a reservation, give us a call during business hours or email us at symposiumwine14086@gmail.com