Some of you may remember Chef Chris Zion, a graduate of the Cordon Bleu in Paris, who owned the Meeting House in Myers Park and Oneo Bistro in south Charlotte. For years he worked in a corporate dining room, but has re-emerged at The Wine Shop at Foxcroft, 7824 Fairview Road. He and owner Conrad Hunter have launched a series of wine dinners. The first is an Italian wine dinner on Tuesday, March 17 at 7 p.m. The menu includes a morel and asparagus salad with truffle vinaigrette with a 2007 Cantina di Taburno, Falanghina (Campania); pan-seared skate wing, spinach, and saffron sweet clam lemon sauce with 2006 Occhipinti, Siccagno, Nero dAvola (Sicily); braised veal cheek with potato gnocchi and tomato ragout with 2004 Marina Cvetic, Montepulciano (Abruzzi); and a fig and goat tartlette with Campbello Vin Santo (Tuscany). The cost is $50, exclusive of tax and gratuity. 704-365-6550.