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, Virginia mead, 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. With VIP, you enter the venue one hour before the general admission ticket holders, and get special access to premium VIP wines available exclusively during this first hour.
With a record 120+ wine, spirits, cider, mead, sake, specialty food and specialty product vendors to experience, we highly recommend the VIP/Early ticket! NOTE: Scroll down to the bottom of the page for updated lists of the winery, distillery, cidery, specialty food and specialty product vendors you'll enjoy.
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, mead, sake 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 2020 WINERIES AND CIDERIES FROM VIRGINIA AND OUR GUEST REGIONS OF BORDEAUX + LOIRE VALLEY, FRANCE AND WASHINGTON STATE IS BELOW. THESE LISTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
LIST OF VIRGINIA WINERIES, CIDERIES, MEADERY*
*Please note that most Virginia wines will be represented by the winery itself and some Virginia wines will be represented by the Virginia Wine Expo's own knowledgeable servers.
Michael Shaps
Barboursville
Bold Rock
Boxwood
Broadbent
Bluestone
Castle Glen Winery
Castle Hill Cider LLC
Cave Ridge Vineyard
Chisholm Vineyards at Adventure Farm
Cobbler Mountain Cider
Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurants
CrossKeys Vineyards
Cunningham Creek Winery
Delfosse Vineyards and Winery
DuCard Vineyards
Early Mountain
Elk Island Winery
Eu Family Estates
Glen Manor
Haley's Honey Meadery
Hamlet Vineyards
Jump Mountain
Horton Vineyards
James River Cellars
Jefferson Vineyards
Lake Anna Winery
Lazy Days Winery
Lovingston
Mattaponi Winery
North American Sake Brewery
Pearmund Cellars
Philip Carter Winery
Pollak Vineyards
Prince Michel Vineyard and Winery
The Tasting Room & Taphouse at Mount Ida Reserve
True Heritage Winery
Upper Shirley Vineyards
Veritas Vineyard and Winery
Paradise Springs Winery
Stinson
Fifty-Third Winery & Vineyard
King Family Vineyards
Biltmore Wines (a special guest winery from North Carolina)
LIST OF VIRGINIA DISTILLERIES
A. Smith Bowman Distillery
Belle Isle
Catoctin Creek Distilling Company
Chesapeake Bay Distillery
Cirrus Vodka
Filibuster Barells LLC
KO Distilling
Tarnished Truth Distilling Company
Virago Spirits
Virginia Distillery Company
Vitae Spirits Distillery
LIST OF WASHINGTON STATE WINERIES AND VINEYARDS
CasaSmith Northridge
Columbia Crest
Charles & Charles
Mullan Road
K Vintners
High Heaven
Mercer
Seven Falls
Sixto
Substance
Tenet
Northstar
Canoe Ridge
CSM Horse Heaven
CSM Cold Creek
Boom Boom
Brown Family
L'Ecole
Milbrandt
LIST OF BORDEAUX + LOIRE VALLEY, FRANCE WINERIES AND VINEYARDS
LR Coeur De La Reine
Maison Foucher
Vincent
Remy Pannier
Domaine Huet, Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux
Marc Bredif
Bouvet
Lassegue St. Emilion
Jadix Picpoul De Pinet
Chateau St. Andre Corbin St. Emilion
Chateau Laribothe
Francois Crochet
Charles Bove
Pol Clemont
Chateau De Fontenille
Chateau Bellevue
Chateau Haut Colombier
Lacroix Blanche
Chateau Peymartin Saint Julien
Lions De Batailley Paulliac
Chateau Haut Lapereyre
Chateau Grand Plantey
Chateau Roland Lagarde
Chateau Leden Medoc
Chateau Mille Roses, Haut Medoc
Chateau Lalande Villeneuvre
Enclos de Viaud
Chateau Calvimont
Chateau Tour du Moulin
LIST OF 2020 SPECIALTY FOOD AND SPECIALTY PRODUCT VENDORS
All About the Beverage
Alma Apothecary
Back Pocket Provisions
Bamboo Pillow Sheets
Beef Jerky Outlet
Bell-View Food Products
Bloodys by Buz
Butler Portraits
Castaneda Cigars
Christopher Mize Studio, Inc.
Clark and Hopkins
Cloister Honey
Cocktails with a Kick
Column 15
Commission on Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program
Deep Run Roadhouse
Diamond Resorts International Marketing, Inc.
Dominion Energy Green Power
En Theos Boutique
Enise
Fly With Wine
Fox Trot Chocolates
Gearhart's
Goatocado
Grapevine Restaurant
Grateful Gypsy
Heavens Gate Specialty Foods Shoppe
Herbert's Wine Jelly
Hops and Nuts Craft Beer and Wine Snacks
I See Spain
J. Sarge
Jerry's Backyard Barbeque Sauce
Kathi's Clam Chowder
Laconiko EVOO
LG's Elixir LLC
Mother Shrub
My Pour Head, LLC
Northern Neck Popcorn Bag
Nostalja
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Publix
Rappahannock River Oysters
Red Root & Co
Rhineland Cutlery by The Starboard Galley
Richmond Limo
Richmond Magazine
RK Revival LLC
Salt Soothers
Simply Cheddar
Sweet Heat Candles
Taste
The Posh Pug
The Tobacco Company
Tilley's Favorite Dog Biscuits
Tryon Mountain Farms
UnBored Games
Velvet Cheesecakery
Whitley's Virginia Peanut
Two and A Half Irishmen
Mosaics by Patsy
Jiji Frozen Custard
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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