Business Beat: Wine break, whiskey taste, no-touch entry

Long Beach

Now pouring

The Wine Beach opened past week astatine 5351 E. Second St., astatine Santa Ana successful Belmont Shore. Their grilled s’mores served connected sourdough breadstuff are 1 of their astir Instagram-worthy paper items.

“Our archetypal week has been amazing. We person had a lukewarm and welcoming reception from our neighbors and galore person go caller vino nine members,” co-owner Jodi Meade texted.

The $65 a period vino nine dues includes 2 bottles of vino and assorted discounts and perks. The edifice has floor-to-ceiling roll-up doors, allowing for indoor and outdoor dining. There is an 1,800-bottle vino enactment disposable for on-premises depletion oregon to instrumentality home.

Whiskey nights

The Social List, astatine 2105 E. Fourth St. successful Retro Row, is readying a whiskey tasting. Whiskey Night is from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight, Thursday. There volition beryllium 25+ whiskey tastings and tiny bites. Tickets tin beryllium purchased astatine the doorway for $40 per person.

Whiskeys featured include: WhistlePig “Piggy Back” 6-year-old Rye, Limavady Irish Whiskey, Kentucky Owl’s “The Wiseman” Kentucky Bourbon, Whiskey Row Bottled In Bond, and others.

The restaurant’s motto is “create fresh, locally sourced, delicious food,” and their events are often a reflection of that mantra.

 Keyless entry

The Hyatt Regency Long Beach astatine 200 S. Pine Ave. downtown is 1 of the first six hotels globally to connection contactless cardinal technology.

This means visitors tin support country keys successful their Apple wallet. The innovation present allows guests to unlock their rooms, entree fittingness areas and gathering rooms by tapping their iPhone oregon Apple Watch to cardinal paper readers.

“Like everything we bash astatine Hyatt, our attack to exertion ever includes listening to our guests and members. We heard that they privation entree to beryllium near-instantaneous. Room keys successful Apple Wallet is an easy, convenient and unafraid country cardinal enactment for our guests erstwhile they travel,” Julia Vander Ploeg, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Digital and Technology, said successful a property release.