The 30A Wine Festival returns to Alys Beach Wednesday, February 19 through Sunday, February 23, 2020 for its ninth year to benefit Children's Volunteer Health Network. This wine festival is one of our favorites! The full weekend of fun for oenophiles begins with an intimate four-course wine dinner at the stunning Caliza Restaurant on Wednesday night from 6:00 to 9:00pm prepared by Executive Chef Drew Dzejak. Wines featured this year are by the Valdez Family Winery.
A gorgeous table welcomed the 2019 wine dinner attendees at Caliza Restaurant’s Red Loggia
Garden & Gun will be hosting an Oysters & Champagne event on Thursday evening once again. It is a casual, yet elegant, outdoor event with live music and plenty of oysters and champagne. It will be held back at Central Park in Alys Beach from 5 to 7:30pm
Oysters are brought in from all over the South to pair with the bubbles
Friday’s fun event is Bourbon, Beer and Butts. It will be held at the Kelly Green in Alys Beach from 6:30 to 9:00pm. The spirit is lively with food stations for nibbling and live music for swaying. Distilleries represented will include American Freedom, Balcones, Garrison Brothers, Reservoir, Rough Rider and Treaty Oak. Breweries will include Back Forty Beer, Grayton Beer, Idyll Hounds Brewing, Intuition Ale Works, Proof Brewing and Victory Brewing. There will be both local and visiting chefs cooking up BBQ including Acre Restaurant, Beau’s, Caliza Restaurant, Central BBQ, Last Call Restaurant Group, Lillie’s Q, Southern Soul BBQ, Saws BBQ and Swig & Swine.
Not only can you sample many bourbons and beers, you can have a beer aged in a bourbon cask
The Grand Tasting will be held on Saturday up and down South Charles Street in Alys Beach from 3:30 to 6:30pm. Vintners and wineries pouring include Alexana Winery, Bohème Wines, Broadbent Selections, Chappellet Winery, Craft & Estate, Del Dotto Vineyards, Fess Parker Winery, Hawley Winery, Heritage School Vineyards, J. Brix Wines, Lail Vineyards, Miura Vineyards, Old Westminster Winery, Red Car Wines, Evana Family Vineyards, Robert Biale Vineyards, Rose Gold Wine, Rubinelli Vajol, Sanglier Cellars, Tres Sabores Winery, Valdez Family Winery, Vineyards Brands, Vine Street Imports, Vino Del Sol and Wolffer Estate. Tasty accompaniments will be served up by Big Bad Breakfast, Black Bear Bread Co, Café Thirty-A, Caliza Restaurant, Easy Bistro, Fisher’s, Fluff Bake Bar, Magnolia House, Seagar’s and The Grocery.
Get an early start if you plan to taste all 80 plus wines from around the world!
And if that’s not enough fun for one weekend, Rosé & Croquet is held on the Kelly Green from 11:30am to 3:00pm on Sunday. The brunch and rosé options are plentiful and the competitive croquet tournament is quite entertaining.
Guests are encouraged to wear white and cheer on the 16 teams competing for the coveted trophy
Message us if you will be attending - we’d love to meet up!
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— He and She on Wine