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Save the Date | VVA Summer Technical Meeting to be held June 30, 2026 in Keswick, Virginia at Southwest Mountain Vineyards!
Nominations for 2025 Grape Grower of the Year now being accepted. Send your nominee’s name, vineyard/farm name, and why you are nominating them to the office by January 1oth.
Check out the 2024 Commercial Grape Report now!
Happy 2025 harvest! Want to share your stories and images from harvest? Please like/follow us on Facebook and Instagram and tag us in your posts. Want to provide a more detailed report of your harvest for our post-harvest newsletter? Email the office and let us know you are willing to contribute.

Exhibitors and Sponsors, register now for the Summer Technical Meeting! We will be heading to Southwest Mountain Vineyards in Keswick, Virginia June 30th for a special vineyard meeting.
Growers save the date for the Summer Technical Meeting on June 30th! Registration will open the beginning of June. Topic: Vineyard Foundations, From the Ground Up.
10% discount on EWE registration for VVA Members! Details can be found here.

LOOKING TO BUY or sell grapes or industry-related equipment or supplies? Are you offering or hoping to apply for a position in the wine industry? Make a connection on the VVA Exchange. Classified listings are public, but only VVA members may posts items on the exchange for free.

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If you’re a grape grower or thinking of becoming one, learn more about the VVA, which represents more than 500 individuals and champions the growth of the Virginia wine industry.

Growing better and smarter depends, in part, on keeping up with the experts and the research. We pull relevant links and updates together for you: Virginia Tech/Virginia Cooperative Extension and Education & Research.

Viticulturist Tremain Hatch is named Grower of the Year; new officers begin their terms on the VVA Board; and our regional reporters wrap up winter and anticipate spring. All this and more in the Spring issue of Grape Press.

Welcome to the Virginia Vineyards Association

The VVA is a nonprofit organization that brings together commercial grape growers, winemakers, researchers and educators to advance and promote viticulture in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The VVA focuses on education, legislation and networking among our members to provide the resources and information required for successful grape growing. Membership is open to all who share our interests.

Welcome to the Virginia Vineyards Association

The VVA is a nonprofit organization that brings together commercial grape growers, winemakers, researchers and educators to advance and promote viticulture in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The VVA focuses on education, legislation and networking among our members to provide the resources and information required for successful grape growing. Membership is open to all who share our interests.