2½-day event - educational tastings, walk-around tastings, breakfasts, lunches and dinners - all with wines. Meet wine makers and fellow wine-lovers. Go to informal gatherings to taste and discuss the happenings and wines of the day.

Want to learn more about wine? Already love wine? In both cases come to the American Wine Society Annual Conference in Jacksonville to learn more about wine! And the best way to learn about wine is to taste more wines. 

Join more than 500 wine enthusiasts and industry leaders for this annual 2½-day event featuring 37 expert-led educational tastings on diverse and delicious wine topics. A wine river cruise on Wednesday, and a winery/distillery/city tour on Thursday are add-ons to your schedule. Two social walk-around tastings, wine at every meal and tons of new wine friends—what’s not to love? It is pretty much a guarantee that you will find new wines you will love and want more of. We will have wines from all over the U.S. and from AROUND THE WORLD!

A sampling of the 37 sessions: Wines of Ukraine, Australia's Varietal Evolution, Beaujolais, Macedonian wines, Matching salumi with the wines of the Roero region of Italy, Wines of Arizona, Comparing Petit Manseng from around the US, The food and wines from Presidential State Dinners, Caymus cabernets, Argentinian wines, Bordeaux wines... AND that is just a sampling from the first day! There is so much to choose from!

To read the full agenda of sessions, as well as meals, tours, tastings and classes go to: https://americanwinesociety.org/conferenceagenda/

If you are starting your wine appreciation path, start with the AWS introductory WineSmarts Level I course. If you already have an introduction and know you enjoy wines and want to continue your wine wanderings, explore WineSmarts Level II. 

If you want to become a certified wine judge or simply want to learn how to better evaluate wines for personal or professional reasons, consider enrolling in the AWS Wine Judge Program.

Join the American Wine Society. Non-members attending the National Conference or WineSmarts sessions will be joining the AWS at a reduced cost.

If you are a professional winemaker, enter your wines into the Commercial Wine Competition (https://americanwinesociety.org/commercial-wine-competition/). If you are an amateur winemaker, enter your wines into the AWS Amateur Wine Competition (https://americanwinesociety.org/amateur-wine-competition/).

Learn more at https://americanwinesociety.org/.

AWS is America's largest community of wine explorers. We have over 180 Chapters throughout the United States, and over 6000 members