It will run through Sunday, Nov. 3. Registration is $675/person, which will include a welcome reception staffed by 36 North Carolina wineries on Friday night, a wines showcase on Saturday night and a grand banquet on Sunday night.
That the AWS has chosen North Carolina again is significant and confirms the rising profile of the state‘s wine industry, which stretches from the producers around Asheville, including— in Ronda, Wikes County, said AWS last brought its convention to North Carolina in 2014, near Charlotte. That was seven years after the first AWS convention in the state, in Winston-Salem.
The farm where Stony Knoll Vineyards sits in southern Surry County was first planted in 1896. Grapevines went into the ground in 2001.During the conference, there are 42 sessions with topics from Europe to South Africa and from Texas to New Jersey, and there are also a number of presentations about North Carolina wines and winemaking techniques by local winemakers, even one comparing Old World vs New World Sagrantino and another on the health benefits of Muscadine.