Calling all wine lovers… Have you truly lived if you haven’t found yourself barefoot and ankle-deep in a barrel of grapes at a grape stomping festival? We think not. With harvest season upon the South Carolina coast already, there’s a grape stomping festival coming up on Saturday, August 28, 2021 and you won’t want to miss it!
It’s hosted by Deep Water Vineyards on Wadmalaw Island, one of the coveted sea islands along South Carolina’s coast.
Facebook/Deep Water Vineyard The gates open at 10 a.m. and the family-oriented fun continues all day until 6:00 p.m.
Deep Water Vineyard grows muscadine grapes, known for thriving in the mind-bending heat that’s typical of a South Carolina summer.
dvest / iStock / Getty Imags Plus Collection via Getty Images At the festival, you’ll have the opportunity to taste test a number of wines made from the grapes grown right here at the vineyard.
All tickets sales this year are online and in advance.
Deep Water Vineyard Expect a day filled with tastings, live music, activities for the kiddos (including their own grape stomping competition), and of course, wine-a-ritas!
There will be three separate adult stomping competitions. Everyone will stomp with a partner… but if you don’t have one, then the festival crew will be happy to pair you up with another.
Susan Vineyard / iStock / Getty Images Plus Collection via Getty Images Get ready to peel off your shoes and sink your bare toes in the mushy grapes!
Whether you want to compete in an adult stomp or you have a child you wish to sign up for the kids’ stomp, you’ll need to sign up online when you buy your festival ticket.
Deep Water Vineyard There is a limited number of competition slots so don’t wait. Stomping in the adult competition will cost only $10 per person. You’ll sign up and pay at the time you purchase festival entry tickets at this link.
Keeping the festival family oriented, there will also be one kids’ grape stomping competition.
Deep Water Vineyard Are you kids adventurous enough to get in on the action?
The biggest event in the festival is always the Lucille Ball look alike contest.
Deep Water Vineyard Dress up like Lucille Ball in the famous “I Love Lucy” episode where Lucy was auditioning for a role in an Italian move called, “Bitter Grapes.” Ball’s character thought she’d be stomping grapes in the movie and decided to learn how to do it.
Dress in your best “I Love Lucy” attire and compete for best in show as everyone cheers.
Deep Water Vineyard Deep Water Vineyard has a few other events throughout the year, but the Grape Stomping Festival is always the highlight of the year, so don’t miss it.
And if, by chance, you don’t want to compete but still want to stomp some grapes, there will be some barrels you can pop into and take a photo or two.
Flickr/Richard Sprague
The annual Grape Stomping Festival takes place at Deep Water Vineyard on Wadmalaw Island on Saturday, August 28, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Have you ever stomped grapes? Think you’ll go to this fun festival? Let us know in the comments!
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The gates open at 10 a.m. and the family-oriented fun continues all day until 6:00 p.m.
dvest / iStock / Getty Imags Plus Collection via Getty Images
At the festival, you’ll have the opportunity to taste test a number of wines made from the grapes grown right here at the vineyard.
Deep Water Vineyard
Expect a day filled with tastings, live music, activities for the kiddos (including their own grape stomping competition), and of course, wine-a-ritas!
Susan Vineyard / iStock / Getty Images Plus Collection via Getty Images
Get ready to peel off your shoes and sink your bare toes in the mushy grapes!
There is a limited number of competition slots so don’t wait. Stomping in the adult competition will cost only $10 per person. You’ll sign up and pay at the time you purchase festival entry tickets at this link.
Are you kids adventurous enough to get in on the action?
Dress up like Lucille Ball in the famous “I Love Lucy” episode where Lucy was auditioning for a role in an Italian move called, “Bitter Grapes.” Ball’s character thought she’d be stomping grapes in the movie and decided to learn how to do it.
Deep Water Vineyard has a few other events throughout the year, but the Grape Stomping Festival is always the highlight of the year, so don’t miss it.
Flickr/Richard Sprague
Learn more with a visit to the official website for Deep Water Vineyard, or follow on Facebook, here.
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Address: Deep Water Vineyard, 6775 Bears Bluff Rd, Wadmalaw Island, SC 29487, USA
