Virginia Cider Week taking place November 11-20

Virginia Cider Week celebrates its tenth year this year, and cideries will host tastings and events from November 11 through 20 across the state. Organized by Virginia Cider, the week’s events will include pairing dinners, tastings, festivals and more. Host cideries are also featured stops on the new Virginia Cider Trail, and visitors who check into the trail from their phone earn chances at prizes.

“Virginia Cider Week is a great time to celebrate local cider that’s made at cideries across the Commonwealth,” said Virginia Cider Association President, Anne Shelton of Albemarle Ciderworks. “As a bonus this year, we’re excited that cider fans can join in on the Virginia Cider Trail by checking in at each participating cidery they visit.”

In 2012, Virginia became the first state to have an official “Cider Week” proclaimed by its governor. This year, Virginia cideries will celebrate with tastings and events highlighting the bounty of the commonwealth while promoting the Virginia Cider Trail.

In recent years, the cider making craft has undergone a renaissance, both in Virginia and nationally. Virginia now has over 50 cideries and is the 6th-largest apple-producing state in the country.

Virginia Cider Trail cideries to visit for tastings and events this Virginia Cider Week include:

• Albemarle Ciderworks, North Garden
• Back Bay’s Farmhouse Brewing Co., Virginia Beach
• Big Fish Cider Co., Monterey
• Blue Bee Cider, Richmond
• Blue Toad Hard Cider, Roseland
• Bold Rock Carter Mountain, Charlottesville
• Bold Rock Nellysford Cidery, Nellysford
• Bryant’s Cider, Richmond
• Bryant’s Cider & Brewery, Roseland
• Buskey Cider, Richmond
• Castle Hill Cider, Keswick
• Ciders From Mars, Staunton
• Corcoran Vineyards & Cidery, Waterford
• Courthouse Creek Cider, Maidens
• Coyote Hole Ciderworks, Mineral
• Ditchley Cider Works, Kilmarnock
• Halcyon Days Cider Co., Natural Bridge
• Henway Hard Cider, Bluemont
• Lost Boy Cider, Alexandria
• Moss Vineyards, Nortonsville
• Defiance Cidery and Distillery Cider Barn, Middleburg
• Old Hill Cider, Timberville
• Old Town Cidery, Winchester
• Potter’s Craft Cider, Charlottesville
• Sage Bird Ciderworks, Harrisonburg
• Sly Clyde Ciderworks, Hampton
• Stable Craft Brewing, Waynesboro
• Sugar Hill Cidery, Norton
• The Winery at Kindred Pointe, Mt Jackson
• Troddenvale, Warm Springs
• Tumbling Creek Cider Company – Taproom, Abington
• Widow’s Watch Cider, Edinburg
• Wild Hare Cider Cabin, Leesburg
• Winchester Ciderworks, Winchester

Virginia Cider Week tasting and event details can be found on each cidery’s website or social media platforms and at www.virginiacider.org/events.

The digital Virginia Cider Trail is a free program that all Virginians or visitors of age 21 and over can sign up for. The mobile exclusive passport is a curated collection of 34 Virginia cideries, with many featuring unique deals for checking into the trail. Each check-in enters users into a grand prize raffle for a chance to win a Cidery Airbnb stay at the end of the year or a Virginia Cider Trail hooded sweatshirt at the end of each quarter. The trail is a year-long program that will run through June 25, 2023, and more cideries are expected to join throughout the year.

Join the Virginia Cider Week conversation on Facebook at Virginia Cider Week and Twitter @CiderWeekVA using hashtags #CiderWeekVA and #VACider.

For more on the Virginia Cider Trail and participating cideries, visit Virginia Cider Trail (ciderculture.com).