Bacchus Winery

No.  Bacchus Winery is a licensed Virginia Farm Winery and a Licensed Commercial Winery.  However, we are also an instructional facility and we are committed to deep immersion education on Enology and Viticulture.  Because we are an educational facility that offers hands on winemaking, we locate ourselves in an easy access instructional environment.  Our vineyards, orchards and farms are located across Virginia.

This is a real working winery producing up to 5000 gallons of wine on site every year.  The only wine that is available for purchase at Bacchus Winery are wines that are produced here on site.  We do not sell any other wine from any other source from any other location.

Our vineyards are located off site across the state of Virginia.  Bacchus Winery depends on Virginia agriculture to supply the winery with the highest quality of feed stock for the winery.  We not only lease vineyards but we lease orchards and farms.  From our leased sites, we harvest grapes, fruit, honey, and other materials that we use produce our products here at the winery.

No.  A winery can be located just about anywhere just like a brewery, cidery, meadery, distillery, etc...  What is required to be a Virginia Farm Winery is that the winery must use products grown in Virginia on land owned or leased by the winery.

The commercial winery section of Bacchus Winery can produce wine from products sourced from anywhere in the world including Virginia.  In our commercial section, we purchase grapes from California, Washington State, Oregon, Maryland, New Jersey, and other grape producing states.  When the vineyards are extremely far away such as Australia, New Zealand, South America, Europe, Africa, etc... we use juice that is sourced from those regions.

Yes.  Our classes are full immersion hands on winemaking to teach the basics of wine making.  More advanced classes are offered.  In our class, you make 30+/- bottles of wine that you take home for personal consumption.

Our 2021 classes are now available and the dates are as follows:

Jan 2, 16, 30, Feb 13, 27

Jan 3, 17, 31, Feb 28, Mar 7 This class is full)

Mar 13, 27, Apr 10, 24, May 8

Mar 14, 28, Apr 11, 25, May 9

May 29, Jun 12, 26, Jul 10, 24

May 30, Jun 13, 27, Jul 11, 25

Aug 21, Sep 4, 18, Oct 2, 5

Aug 22, Sep 5, 19, Oct 3, 17

Oct 23, Nov 6, 20, Dec 4, 18

Oct 24, Nov 7, 21, Dec 5, 19

Our classes fill as much as six months in advance.  Call to place a deposit to hold your space in our class.