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2022 Wine Tasting Competition

2022 Wine Tasting Competition

It’s back!

The WBD Wine Tasting Competition is returning!

That’s right Virginia: the Wines By Design Wine Tasting event is making a comeback! After an 18-month hiatus, we’re going to schedule our next event.

You’ve worked hard perfecting your wines here at Wines By Design and once again, you have a chance to show it off. Enter your personally made wine.

Coming soon: (Saturday, September 17 from 12p – 4p to be exact)

The store will be closed for “normal” business, the day is devoted to the event! 

You are allowed to submit up to 3 bottles per person for the 3 entry categories: Red, White, and Dessert/Fruit. Your wine will be moved into numbered bottles and you will be the judge in the blind tasting. The highest scored wines will be the winner in each category and the highest scoring of those will be named Best of Show. Best of Show wins a $100 gift certificate at WBD and the other two winners will each receive a $50 gift certificate to WBD.

To enter, turn in your bottles at the store before Friday, September 16 (contest closing time is 7p).

For those of you with entries already submitted (from our 2020 COVID canceled event), we promised that we would keep them safe. They’ve been cellared and we will automatically enter them in this year’s event.

Note: This is limited to wine made in the Wines By Design store (from our kits). This does not include wine made from fresh juice.

For the day of the event: there will be a $5 fee for those not contributing a bottle of their finest vino. (Contest entrants are free!)

Special bonus: All attendees will receive an Owners discount of 15% off all wine kits during the event. (Excludes the “Red Dot” sale rack wine kits.)

A quick recap (TL;DR):

  1. Drop off up to 3 bottles per person by Friday, September 16 at 7p.
  2. Join us for wine judging on September 17 beginning at 12p.
  3. See how your wines stack up against all the WBD competition!

 WBD will provide palate-cleansing crackers, snacks, appetizers, munchies, and more!

WBD app

WBD app

That’s right, we have an app!

(iOS or Android)

A lot of folks ask us “What’s New?”

And now for something completely different: We’ve got our very own app, and we’d like to share it!  

We hope that you’ll find it useful and will be patient as we open this up to the public.

Open the app’s link by clicking the link or scanning the QR code with your mobile device. You’ll need to enter your email address so a pin can be sent to you.  (Don’t worry, we won’t spam you, it’s between you and the security team.) Your browser should prompt you to add the app to your home screen.

Your app will automatically update with new features and information.

(On iOS, please be sure to open the link in Safari.)

 

The intent of this app is to provide Wines By Design customers with:

  • Easy contact info access
  • List available wines
  • List available wines by region
  • List of favorites (my wines)
  • List wines you have in your cellar (and allow you to monitor your inventory)
  • Your WBD schedule

What the app DOESN’T do:

  • Give customers access to what we have in stock
  • Promise that WBD will get a particular style in, (we can’t control availability)
  • Allow users to communicate within the app
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