Each year the Chesapeake Bay Wine Festival is held at beautiful White Fences Vineyard in the quaint water town of Irvington, Virginia. The event features 10 award-winning wineries from throughout Virginia who offer free tastings of their best wines. In addition, visitors can enjoy Virginia barbecue and Chesapeake Bay seafood.

Irvington, on Virginia’s famous Northern Neck, offers the perfect one day or weekend destination with cute boutiques, the well-known Trick Dog Café, Hope and Glory Inn and Tides Inn resort. Located on Carter’s Creek, the town is both simple and sophisticated, sailor and workingman, traditional and contemporary. In short, Irvington is some kind of town.

Partial proceeds from the 2008 Chesapeake Bay Wine Festival will benefit the Northern Neck Family YMCA’s Bright Beginnings program, a program which provides clothing and school supplies to local children living below the poverty line. The band for the festival, Mary and the Janes along with Jim Wright, are donating their fee to the Bright Beginnings program, to which they are all committed.