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Apple Blossom Festival: Cider Tasting and Orchard Tours
April 20 @ 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
New experience in 2024!
The Cider Tasting and Orchard Tours event offers a new experience this year. Enjoy hard cider tastings from the regions top cider makers on the beautiful campus of Our Health in Old Town Winchester then take a shuttle trip to the Glaize Apple facilities where guests will learn about four generations of growing apples in the Shenandoah Valley. Established in 1937, Glaize Apple has added to the history of premium fruit harvests between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains. Glaize Apples of Winchester is optimally located to distribute fresh fruit on routes local, regional, and beyond. Shuttle tours of the orchards and facilities will follow an hour of hard cider tastings for each session beginning at at 11 am with the last session beginning at 3:30 pm. A limit of 48 tickets are available per session.
During the orchard tour, guides will dispense a wealth of information on the planting, growing, and year-round caring of fruit trees (primarily apple). The seasons of a tree are weather dependent and vary year to year, but there is a good chance the orchard will be covered with blossoms and the pollinator bees will be humming! On the tour, you will learn what it takes to go from blossom to apple to hard cider, all while sipping a hard cider yourself!
Delicious food options will be available for purchase from various vendors on site.
The Cider Tasting & Orchard Tours is an outdoor event, please wear appropriate footwear.
No refunds. Don’t Drink and Drive. Rain or shine event.
TICKET PRICE
$25 Tasting and Tour Ticket
WHEN
Saturday, April 20
Tasting times followed by bus tour:
11:00 am
12:00 pm
2:00 pm
3:30 pm
