O-Ku Executive Chef Bryan Emperor will host a special sake and small plates dinner next week. (Photo by Rey Lopez)

This week’s food event calendar includes a wine tasting inside a downtown mansion, the return of a favorite coffee-infused booze, goat for days in Takoma Park, and plenty more.

It’s time for Goatober

October brings a herd of goat specials at Republic in Takoma Park. The Goatober movement is an international sustainability effort to get more goat on restaurant menus, especially male goats born into the dairy system that often go uneaten. Republic will receive a goat a week all month long and turn out dishes like goat tacos and goat cheese ravioli. (6939 Laurel Ave, Takoma Park, through October, a la carte)

Eat a taco, support Florence relief

Taco Bamba customers can order a special taco through September 29 together to support Hurricane Florence relief efforts. The Nature Boy is filled with North Carolina barbecue bacon and jalapeno-corn nacho cheese on a flour tortilla. All proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen, which is working to provide meals to areas impacted by the storm. (Falls Church, Springfield, Vienna, and Chinatown locations, $5, through Sept. 29)

A spirited D.C. cocktail dinner

Capitoline Vermouth and New Columbia Distillers will mix drinks during Wednesday’s dinner at Little Coco‘s. The five-course meal includes plates of grilled octopus, sangiovese risotto, butter poached lobster, roasted duck breast, and an apple dessert. Each is paired with a cocktail featuring Green Hat gin and vermouth from Capitoline. (3907 14th St. NW, Wednesday, 7 p.m., $84.50)

Cotton & Reed gets caffeinated

D.C. rum distiller Cotton and Reed is releasing the 2018 batch of its Despaccino coffee rum this Sunday. Fewer than 2,000 bottles will be available for purchase beginning at noon at the distillery (the first 50 to purchase receive a free gift). The bold recipe gets its coffee flavors both from Counter Culture Coffee in North Carolina and cold brew from D.C.-based Junius Coffee. Take home a bottle or try one of the launch party cocktails, which will include a riff on the classic negroni. (1330 5th St. NE, Sunday, noon-midnight, free to attend, $35 per bottle).

Yacht rock and boat drinks

Spend Sunday forgetting about Monday with some smooth grooves and tropical drinks at the “Yachty by Nature” cocktail brunch. No, it’s not on a boat: The yacht rock-themed party takes place at Archipelago and will be hosted by bartenders Trevor Frye (Five to One, Dram & Grain) and Lukas B. Smith (Cotton & Reed, Dram & Grain). They’ll take over the tiki bar to dish out cocktails, beers, shots, and unlimited high fives. Archipelago’s regular happy hour menu will be available. (1201 U St. NW, Sunday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., free entry)

Sake and small bites

Japanese grill and sushi bar O-Ku is planning a three-course sake and small plates dinner. The menu will feature bites of hamachi, wagyu croquettes, and tsukune (chicken meatballs) paired with sake picked exclusively for the event by “sake ninja” and sommelier Chris Johnson. Bottle pours will include Kinka Gold Blossom sake, Masumi Okuden Kantsukuri Mirror of Truth sake and Tsukune paired with Kamoizumi Shusen Three Dots sake. Tickets can be purchased online. (1274 5th St. NE, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., $40)

Meet some of Oregon’s best wines

Carrie Wynkoop, founder of the wine club Cellar 503, thinks D.C. could learn a lot from Oregon wine. “We definitely have a different climate than Maryland and Virginia, so we’re growing different types of grapes here in Oregon,” Wynkoop tells DCist. “Oregon is a much more established wine region than the Virginia area, so we have a couple more decades on you in perfecting the wine culture.” Taste for yourself on Tuesday, when Wynkoop’s Oregon-based wine club hits town for its pop-up tasting that highlights wine from the Beaver State. To curate Cellar 503’s selection, Wynkoop hand-picks bottles from small, boutique wine producers that make less than 10,000 cases a year—including Oregon favorite Brick House Vineyards and the up-and-coming Fossil & Fawn—and features wine you otherwise wouldn’t sample unless you visited their tasting rooms. If you want to keep the party going after the pop-up, you can sign up to receive bottles from Wynkoop’s selection mailed to your home. “This is not a wine club for snobs,” Wynkoop says. “We want to encourage people to drink what they love and to try out different things.” (Mansion on O Street, Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m., $25, free for Cellar 503 members). —Lenore T. Adkins

This post has been updated to accurately describe the dishes at O-Ku’s dinner.