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Check out the fun we have planned for Durango Wine Experience 2024!

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Walkabout

Hundreds of wines featured with light appetizers at multiple downtown Durango locations.

Friday, April 26: 4 pm - 6:30 pm

Grand Tasting

Under the BIG tent at the Smiley Building, it will feature hundreds of wines and Colorado spirits along with Durango's finest restaurants showcasing their delectable cuisine.

Saturday, April 27: 3 pm - 6 pm

Wristband Pick-up for Ticketholders -- Required for Entry to Walkabout and Grand Tasting

Thursday, April 25 & Friday, April 26, 2024
R Space | 734 E 2nd Ave
12:00 - 5:30 PM

Saturday, April 27, 2024
Smiley Building Café | 1309 E 3rd Ave
12:00 - 5:00 PM

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Unique Tastings, Wine Dinners and Educational Events

Ride Responsible

Durango Wine Experience is partnering with the School Community Youth Collaborative’s Ride Responsible program to ensure our guests will have options for safe rides home. There will be a Ride Responsible Zone on both Friday and Saturday where Durango Transit tokens and Buck Horn Limousine will be available to facilitate free rides home to in-town locations.

You can also sign up in advance – Click Here

Look for the Ride Responsible flag to find your safe ride home — Friday the pick-up locations will be near the Rochester Hotel, 6:30 – 8:30 PM and Saturday it will be near the Smiley Building/Buckley Park. Live outside of Durango?

Plan ahead for a sober ride – Click Here, use Uber or Lyft, or call Buck Horn or Durango Cab to arrange a safe ride home.

Walkabout Durango Tasting

Friday, April 26, 2024 | 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Multi-location: Downtown Durango

Hundreds of wines featured with light appetizers at multiple downtown Durango locations. The Walkabout is our signature, multi-location, tasting event. You will enjoy not only a taste of great wine & food, but also a taste of the local nonprofit sector in which the Community Foundation invests. You’ll have a chance to learn more about a dozen wonderful nonprofits that are making a difference across our region!

Libation tables will be featured at some of our favorite Durango galleries, shops & outdoor spaces, all in our historic downtown. Light appetizers are provided at each location and save room to purchase dinner at one of our amazing local restaurants!

*Please note, tickets are nonrefundable*

2024 Walkabout Locations

The Grand Tasting

Saturday, April 29, 2023 | 3:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Smiley Building Lawn

Under the BIG tent at the Smiley Building, we will feature hundreds of wines from around the world and regional Colorado spirits. Durango’s finest restaurants will showcase their cuisine in our annual Durango Restaurant Showcase. Look for our pairing recommendations in the BIG tent to take this culinary delight to a new level.

*Please note, tickets are nonrefundable*

2024 Restaurant Showcase Partners

2024 Nonprofit Partners

10 local nonprofits have been selected to receive a $2,500 grant for volunteering at the Walkabout and the Grand Tasting. Our Durango Wine Experience guests will enjoy learning more about the nonprofit sector in SW Colorado.

Here are our nonprofit partners for 2024:

Adaptive Sports Association — Durango Independent Film Festival (DIFF)— Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County — Humane Society of Pagosa Springs —  La Plata Historical Society/Animas Museum — Mancos FoodShare — Music in the MountainsSan Juan Citizens AllianceStillwater Music Southwest Conservation Corps  

*The public events of the Durango Wine Experience will have photographs and video taken for marketing purposes by professional and amateur photographers/videographers.

If you do not want your picture taken, please avoid the cameras!

Started in 2007, the Durango Wine Experience is a lively tradition!

“Wine & friends are a great blend.”

Ernest Hemingway