GRAPE STOMPING

FREE all weekend at the Italian Lights Festival

Grape Stomping at the Italian Lights Festival! Your chance to experience a part of the winemaking process used in Italy for hundreds of years.  Several of our grape stomping events have categories for children – they can participate too!  See what it’s like to make grape juice or wine! Of course, no one drinks the products made from these events – but the process we use is the same one vineyards do. A fun way to learn how wine  was made before mechanization and how the time honored tradition became an important annual ritual for wine lovers worldwide. 

Grape stomping is FREE all weekend at the festival – or enter our Grape Stomping Competition and show off your skills for a prize!

All participants must complete a simple waiver before stomping. To save time, you can print the waiver at home and fill it out in advance. Download the Grape Stomping Waiver here (PDF).

Or Compete in the annual Grape Stomping Competition for PRIZES!

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Annual GRAPE STOMPING COMPETITIONS:

KIDS “Little Stompers” (Age 12 & Under)
$12 per Team

ADULTS “Big Stompers” (Age 13 & Up)
$20 per Team

FRIDAY COMPETITIONS:
Kids – 4pm
Adults – 6pm

SATURDAY COMPETITIONS:
Kids – 12pm and 4pm
Adults – 2pm and 6pm

SUNDAY COMPETITIONS:
Kids – 12pm and 4pm
Adults – 2pm and 6pm

MONDAY COMPETITIONS:
Kids – 12pm
Adults – 4pm

PRIZES FOR THE WINNERS!

ADULT COMPETITIONS – $100 PRIZE

KIDS COMPETITIONS – $25 PRIZE