Event Schedule & Ticket Packages
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VIP/Early Afternoon Walk-Around Grand Tasting
+ Combo Package Available
Join us at beautiful Main Street Station for a curated tasting of hundreds of the finest Virginia, Bordeaux + Loire Valley, France, and Washington State wines, Virginia spirits, Virginia ciders, and artisan foods and specialty products. This is THE most popular event at the Expo and offers a premier tasting experience at a stunning, world-class venue.
Enter the tasting ONE-HOUR EARLIER than general admission attendees with this ticket and get special access to premium "VIP" wines available exclusively during this first hour at specially designated exhibitor booths.
There are five different Walk-Around Grand Tasting sessions, including this Saturday VIP/Early Afternoon session from 12 pm to 4:30 pm. The other four sessions are as follows:
- Saturday General Afternoon, 1 pm to 4:30 pm
- Saturday VIP/Early Evening, 6 pm to 10 pm (get in one hour early and access to special bottles not available to General Admission attendees)
- Saturday General Evening, 7 pm to 10 pm
- Sunday VIP Walk-Around Grand Tasting Locals Sunday Special, 12 pm to 4:30 pm (all attendees get a 4 hour/30 minute session for the General Admission price)
The Details
Ticket Package Availability
If you want a special weekend culinary experience, this event can be purchased as part of several different ticket packages, including, "VIP Weekend", "VIP Weekend Ultimate Brew Fest", "VIP Afternoon Border Pass", and "VIP Saturday & VIP Sunday Grand Tasting" and "Saturday Judgment of Richmond & Afternoon Grand Tasting". Full details on the ticket pages can be found on the Ticket Packages page and can be purchased on the ticket page.
Oyster Bar Presented by Rappahannock Oyster Co.
For the first time in Expo history, this event will feature an Oyster Bar, featuring the country's best and freshest Virginia oysters cultivated, harvested and shucked by Rappahannock Oyster Co.
General
- All-inclusive, curated walk-around grand tasting, including tasting hundreds of wines, spirits, ciders, and specialty food
- Enjoy a one-hour head-start compared to General Admission ticket holders and enjoy exclusive, premium wines only available during the VIP session (the specific location of the booths where the VIP wines will be located will be very clearly marked)
- Bordeaux and Loire Valley is the International Guest Region and Washington State is the National Guest Region in 2020
- If you are hungry for a full meal, there will be artisan food vendors on the exhibit hall floor and a new Artisan Food Truck Court just outside the building. You may bring food that you purchase at the Truck Court inside Main Street Station assuming you have tickets to an event
- You receive a Riedel crystal wine glass to use at the event and take home
- The alcoholic beverage tasting ends at 4 pm sharp but purchases of alcoholic beverages to go or any other products at the Expo may be made until 4:30 pm
- A major buying opportunity: most Virginia wines and all Virginia spirits and ciders will be available for sale to take home
- A complimentary wine check service will be available so that you do not have to carry or hold your wines during the session
- Specialty food and artisan, luxury products available to sample and purchase
- The food sampling will not be enough for a meal. However, meal-size food will be sold separately at the event
- Please see signage on individual wine booths to determine whether Virginia wines will or will not be for sale (most will be for sale). There is no limit on how much wine (and spirits and cider) you are permitted to buy
- Non-Virginia wine may not be purchased per Virginia ABC rules
- A complimentary coat check service will be available
- Complimentary water provided
- Tables, lounge chairs and cocktail rounds will be spread out throughout the Shed for your convenience
- Wear comfortable shoes
The Virginia Wine Expo benefits the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Educational Foundation.
All inclusive. Price Covers Food & Drink. 21 and over only and no infants or strollers, except at the VIP Walk-Around Grand Tasting Locals Sunday Special on Sunday, March 8, 2020 at historic Main Street Station.
A TENTATIVE LIST OF WINERIES, DISTILLERIES AND CIDERIES WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY 2020
TENTATIVE LIST OF VIRGINIA WINERIES, DISTILLERIES AND CIDERIES THAT WERE REPRESENTED IN 2019
Barboursville Vineyards
Bold Rock Hard Cider
Castle Glen Estates Farm and Winery
Castle Hill Cider
Chapelle Charlemagne Vineyards
Cobbler Mountain Cider
Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurants
Cunningham Creek Winery
Delfosse Vineyards and Winery
Early Mountain Vineyards
Elk Island Winery
Horton Vineyards
James River Cellars
Jefferson Vineyards
Keswick Vineyards
Lake Anna Winery
Lazy Days Winery
Mattaponi Winery
Philip Carter Winery
Pollak Vineyards
Prince Michel Vineyard and Winery
Stanburn Winery
The Williamsburg Winery
Upper Shirley Vineyards
Vino Wine
Cross Keys
Glen Manor
Lovingston
Rappahannock Winery
Bluestone Vineyards
Doukenie Winery
Linden
Michael Shaps Wineworks
Paradise Springs Winery
Pearmund Cellars
The Barns at Hamilton Station
White Hall Vineyards
Stinson Vineyards
Potomac Point Winery
King Family Vineyards
Veritas Vineyards & Winery
A. Smith Bowman Distillery
Belle Isle Moonshine
Catoctin Creek Distilling Company
Chesapeake Bay Distillery
Filibuster Distillery
KO Distilling
Murlarkey Distilled Spirits
Tarnished Truth Distillery Company
Three Crosses Distilling Company
Virago Spirits
Virginia Distillery Company
Vitae Spirits Distillery
TENTATIVE LIST OF CHILEAN AND CENTRAL COAST, SOUTHERN AND SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA WINERIES REPRESENTED IN 2019
From Central Coast, Southern and Santa Cruz Mountains California
Austin Hope
Cosentino
Chloe
Criss Cross
Chronic Cell
Dao
Daou Pessimist
F. Coppola
Matanzas Creek
Earthquake
Antica
Four Vines
Juggernaut
Terra d' Oro
Jaffurs
Klinker Brick
Outlier
Writers Block
MDW (Michael David Winery)
Calera
J. Wilkes
Chamisal
Jeff Runquist
Ancient Peaks
Stolpman
Tobin James
True Myth
From Chile
Alcance
Carmen
Haras
Santa Rita
Emiliana
Concha y Toro
Montgras
M. Torres
Montes Alpha
Cono Sur
Tarapaca
Terranoble
Grand Araucana
Leyda
Ritual
Primus
De Martino
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Advance tickets will only be available for sale on this website. Tickets may be available at the door at an increased price unless sold out. All tickets to the Virginia Wine Expo are nonrefundable.
Attendees must be 21 years of age or older to attend all Expo events, except the Sunday Walk-Around Grand Tasting