About us
Hello Wineauxs!
We are a fun group of wine loving, book loving, aged 35+ (like a fine wine) group of people. We would love for you to join us. Here's one of the many activities we have planned each month....
Monthly Book Club - Every month we meet at a local wine shop in Scottsdale where we have a curated wine tasting based on the theme of that month's book. We discuss the book, drink wine, laugh and have fun. I promise you will meet a new friend at this book club!
Buzz Books & Bubbles - This small group spinoff meets once a month at a wine bar as we discuss a buzzy book of the moment (usually a newly released book) while sipping on champagne or you drink of choice. Great for avid readers who want to read more than one book a month.
The Capote Brunch Society - This is a spinoff of our book club where we meet for brunch and like Truman Capote and his swans we discuss a long form article that I provide to you prior to the brunch (think Anna Delvey fake heiress type stories).
Beginning in February 2025 - The Literary Wineaux Society will be a fee-based membership. All new members will receive a 30-day trial. The annual dues are just $10 per year. You can pay via Meetup or you can pay me directly via Venmo, PayPal, Zelle or Apple Cash. and I'll update your membership manually.
Wineaux Rules: please kindly cancel your RSVP ahead of meetup time if unable to make it to allow for the waitlist to open up. Thank you.
Upcoming events
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Buzz Books and Bubbles: 'Paradiso 17' by Hannah Lillith Assadi
Rift Wine and Tap, 431 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ, USApril's Buzz Books & Bubbles is one I chose myself based on the story, not necessarily on the buzz. The book has been longlisted for the Women's Prize in Fiction alongside Buzz Book past favorite -- "The Correspondent". The author was in conversation at the literary non-profit The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn with author Colum McCann whose book Apeirogon, somewhat mirrors this story and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. I chose this book because I love novels about someone's journey, over decades of their life, through many far and away places, their ups-and-downs, trials and tribulations, the people they meet and who they impact throughout their lifetime. This is Paradiso 17. A novel that was inspired by the author's own father and his personal journey.
Description: Amazon Link
The intimate, sweeping tale of one man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope"Generations are captured here, loss and pain and miraculous attempt at renewal. A beautiful work." —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All-Stars
All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.
Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948’s Nakba, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he’s ever known, the one on the hill with a beautiful blue door. This is the precise moment when time stops making sense. He spends the rest of his life propelled forward, always on the way—although in search of what, he is never quite sure. In the dusty, oil-rich desert of Kuwait, he meets his first love and decides he must leave his family. In a small Italian university town, he spends his youth wrapped up in the sweet promise of the West and the forgetful assurance of wine. When life takes him to a gritty New York, he discovers his true vocation and falls for a Jewish woman born into a wholly different world. Finally, he finds himself recalled to the wild, vast open skies of the desert, in Arizona.
Sufien’s life spans friendships lost and maintained, a stint selling leathers at a tanner’s stall, the ineffable company of cats, and the freedom of the open road, the glowing pride of fatherhood, Sufi myths, prophetic dreams, and visions of the afterlife—and always, always, no matter how far he chases joy, the sweet, treacherous song of a balcony urging him to fly, to fall, to fall. The lyrical pages of Paradiso 17 weave in and out of time and space, beginning at the end and ending at the beginning. They are haunting, haunted with grief, struck through, as Dante once wrote, with “the arrow that the bow of exile/shoots first,” and yet they throb with light—not just the light that Sufien sees as he approaches his own end, but the brilliant light of a life lived.
Like all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.
Book Details
Publish Date: March 17, 2026
Page Count: 320 pages
Audiobook: 8 hours, 5 minutes - Narrated by Noor HamdiAbout the Author:
Hannah Lillith Assadi, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. She is the author of Sonora, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, was a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. Raised in Arizona, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.Location: Rift Wine Bar
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Capote Brunch Society: Breakfast with Tiffany @Olive & Ivy
Olive & Ivy, 7135 E Camelback Rd #195, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, Scottsdale, AZ, USHello Swans! It's another meeting of the curious minds. The Capote Brunch Society meets to discuss/debate a long-form article, that I will provide to you over delicious brunch.
Here are the deets....
Location: We will meet at Olive & Ivy for brunch. Take a look at the menu!
The reservations are for six people. They offer separate checks and accept touch pay for convenience.Article Discussion: I will post the long-form article here, on Thursday before the event.
RSVPs: I appreciate your courtesy if you could update your RSVP in advance to let anyone waiting on the waitlist time to join the discussion. Please do your best not to cancel last minute. Thank you!
See you there! :)
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LWS April Book Club: 'Theo of Golden' by Allen Levi
Mise en place, 13610 North Scottsdale Road, Ste. 14, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254, United States,, Scottsdale, CA, USHello May!!!
So excited to read this book that literally became famous from word of mouth. THEO OF GOLDEN is the Literary Wineaux Society's May Book Club Selection.
Book Details:
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi - One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their “rightful owners.” With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered.
Page Count: 400
Published: October 3, 2025
Audiobook: 13 hours, 12 minutes. Narrated by David MorseFurther Reading and Viewing
- WATCH: Theo of Golden "About the Book" by Allen Levi.
- WATCH: Theo of Golden "My Favorite Moment" by Allen Levi
LOCATION: MISE EN PLACE
Lynn will be guiding us in a curated wine tasting of 4 wines. Charcuterie bites to share are included in the group tasting. $25 per person paid at the time of tasting directly to Lynn.40 attendees
Past events
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