When Marie Delbarry was first invited to set foot on the grounds at Rancho Los Cerritos by someone she met who worked there, she knew she had to find a way to make something happen at the historic site.<\/p>\n
Immediately, she started dreaming up a day that would fuse all of the things she\u2019s come to love about Long Beach\u2014a place she moved to from France just one year ago.<\/p>\n
That day will come Sunday, July 9, when \u201cA Day At The Rancho\u201d will offer organic California wine, charcuterie and live jazz music from noon to 5:30, which will be followed by a separate ticketed intimate open-fire dinner for 60 people. \u201cA Night At The Rancho\u201d will feature chef Ivan Guillen and will last from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tickets for the daytime event are $60, and for the dinner, they are $165.<\/p>\n
Last year, Delbarry moved to Long Beach to help her friend Alicia Kemper run Buvons Wine Bar + Shop in the Zaferia District as the general manager. She says it’s the people she’s been able meet at Buvons that made her first big one-day festival\u2014which could draw up to 350 people\u2014possible. It’s something, she says, she\u2019s always wanted to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to blend all of my passions, which is music, wine and food,\u201d she said. \u201cYou don\u2019t need to be anything to appreciate this kind of thing\u2014it talks to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both meat and vegetarian-friendly charcuterie picnic baskets will be offered for purchase by Teresa Cabansag, who has worked as a chef at restaurants Gwen and Otium. Guests will be able to take their picnic baskets home.<\/p>\n
Throughout the day and evening, live jazz arrangements with musicians plucked from a few well known bands in the Long Beach-Los Angeles area will perform. Kevin Martin of Brainstory<\/a> will be among them.<\/p>\n \u201cThe musicians that are going to play all know each other,\u201d Delbarry said. \u201cBut they are not playing under their band names, because I want them to improvise too.\u201d<\/p>\n Wine selections from Buvons will be available, but Delbarry also invited small production, natural winemakers from all over the state to offer tastings of their wines: Phelan Farms, LA River Wine Company, Jumbo Time Wines Delmore, Fiky Fiky, Herrmann York, Surreal Wines Good Boy Wine and more.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re not going to say no to a good wine, right?\u201d Delbarry said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s just nice to meet the person that is making the wine.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Buvons will be involved in the event, Delbarry is organizing the picnic and dinner under her own company, Four Mains, which is a French reference to \u201cfour hands,\u201d a collaboration between two people. She named her new company after her first dinner collaboration in Long Beach.<\/p>\n Everyone that Delbarry tapped for the festival has been among the group she\u2019s come across in the past year that have inspired her in some way. In Paris, Delbarry explained, social culture doesn\u2019t seem to have the same ambitious drive that she\u2019s seen and felt in Long Beach.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are so many talented people,\u201d she said of Long Beach. \u201cIf we all put our strengths together, we are stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n