Wine Festivals: Your Guide to the
Popular New Jersey Wine Events

Discover New Jersey's Popular Wineries, Wine Festivals and Events With Samplings, Music, Food, and Vineyard Tours

New Jersey is well known for its tomatoes, white corn, peaches, and cranberries, but there is more

With more than 50 wineries, New Jersey wines are fast becoming internationally recognized as a premium wines.

The Garden State wine industry has received countless awards locally, nationally and internationally, and is now a significant part of the New Jersey agricultural sector.

Ideal grape varietals for New Jersey wineries are largely dictated by the weather and terrain that characterizes NJ wine country.

New Jersey has three federally designated American Viticultural Areas.

• Outer Coastal Plain in the southern half of the state, includes all of Cumberland, Cape May, Atlantic, and Ocean counties and portions of Salem, Gloucester, Camden, Burlington, and Monmouth counties. Characterized with sandy soil, extensive sunshine, relatively mild winters, and a relatively long growing season. Most of the NJ wineries are located in this area and produce some of the best red wines in NJ.
•  Central Delaware Valley, straddles the Delaware River with Its southern boundary near Titusville, just north of Trenton, and its northern border is near Musconetcong Mountain. With a slightly colder climate than the Outer Coastal Plain, they produce more white wines than it's southern neighbor.
•  Warren Hills area in Warren County. Being further north and in a higher elevation, it has a colder climate and shorter growing season. White wines do better here than the two other areas

While there are more than 40 varieties of wine growing in New Jersey, the top ten NJ wines produced are:
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chambourcin, Cabernet Franc, Riesling, Pinot Gris, Merlot, Syrah, and Concord.

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Note: Sometimes conditions require cancellations or changes of dates, times and location which are not reflected in the original schedule. Before planning a trip to visit one of the listed events, it is suggested that you call the event sponsor to confirm the event schedule or for additional information on the event.

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October 2021 Wine Festivals, Wine Tasting Events,
and Vineyard Tours

Oktoberfest Food Truck Festival
October 2 & 3, 2021
Laurita Winery
35 Archertown Road
New Egypt, NJ 08533
Website/Tickets ~ Admission online is $12 per person and $14 at the door. Admission includes: Free Parking! Free Scenic Shuttle Service to and from the parking area to the Vineyard Festival Grounds! Free Souvenir Laurita Wine Glass! Free Kids playgrounds! Free Firewood to use in their 40 fire pits! Access to over 6 Wine Bars (inside and out) and 2 Tasting Tent Areas (available during non-peak hours of the festival)! And Fireworks on Saturday evening.
This event features over a dozen food trucks, live music, vineyard wagon tours, country line dance lessons, fireworks on Saturday evening at dusk, and of course plenty of great wine from Laurita.

Hanover Twp. PBA Food, Wine & Brew Festival
October 2, 2021; 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Bee Meadow Park
Brickyard Field
111 Reynolds Avenue
Whippany, NJ
Website
This charity event features great food, Wine, brews, activities, games, and live music by Jersey Bound.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local charity.

Pig Roast
Saturday, October 2, 2021@1pm
Brook Hollow Winery
594 State Route 94
Columbia, NJ
(908)496-8200
brookhollowwinery@gmail.com
Website/Tickets
QCrew BBQ wiil be serving up this annual pig roast. The event features the pig roast, live music. Wine by the glass and bottle will be available for purchase throughout the day at retail value!

Grand Harvest Wine Festival
October 9 & 10, 2021; 12-5pm
Fosterfields Living Historical Farm
73 Kahdena Rd
Morristown, NJ 07960
Website
This event features wine sampling by 11+ New Jersey wineries, artisan crafts, eats & treats, and live music by The Uptown Getdowns, and Funktion Band

Stafford Fall Wine Festival
October 9th & 10th, 2021; 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Manahawkin Train Station Museum aka. Heritage Park
49 West Bay Avenue
Stafford Township, NJ
Tickets
Cost: $20 – $35
This event features a sampling of wines from some of New Jersey's leading wineries, browsing crafters, and vendors. There will be live music from the Impulsives on Saturday, and Acoustic NRG on Sunday. Food trucks will be on hand as well.

The Fifth Annual Bridgewater Beerfest & Wine Tasting
October 10, 2021; 12pm - 5pm.
Shimon and Sara Birnbaum Jewish Community Center (JCC)
775 Talamini Road
Bridgewater, NJ
Website/Registration
908-443-9002
Cost: $15.00 – $75.00
This event features over 50 Beers, Wine Tastings, Live Music, Food Trucks, and an afternoon outside on their beautiful Campgrounds!
The VIP tasting experience from 12:00 TO 1:00 PM at a cost of $75, will be an exclusive one hour early admission, first access to all beers and wines, with exclusive pours of select brewers choice taps and wines, and an opportunity to speak with representatives from the breweries and Pacific Highway Wines and Spirits, and a swag item.
Proceeds from this event will benefit JCC Special Needs programs for children and adults.

Sip In Autumn Wine Festival
October 16th & 17th, 2021; 12pm - 5pm
Veterans Park
489 Forest Hills Parkway
Bayville, NJ
Website/Tickets
Cost: $15 in advance or $20 at the gate
This event features wine samplings from top NJ wineries, live music, food trucks, and artisan crafters.

New Jersey Wineries

The 618 Restaurant in Freehold, NJ serves a New American menu prepared with healthy, quality ingredients in a modern-rustic setting with a well stocked bar.