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November 2023

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Vintage Apple Tasting
Vintage Apple Tasting

Our CEO and Historically Studied apple enthusiast, Will be guiding a journey into the past to explore secrets that ought not be forgotten. You may think you like apples but if you decide to join us, you will find out why vintage apples plant a seed of passion in all who try their crisp delights.

Tickets cost $25 - Please click the link https://shop.albemarleciderworks.com/product/Vintage-Apple-Tasting to book a space.

11:30 am to 12:30 pm
 
Vintage Apple Tasting
Vintage Apple Tasting

Our CEO and Historically Studied apple enthusiast, Will be guiding a journey into the past to explore secrets that ought not be forgotten. You may think you like apples but if you decide to join us, you will find out why vintage apples plant a seed of passion in all who try their crisp delights.

Tickets cost $25 - Please click the link https://shop.albemarleciderworks.com/product/Vintage-Apple-Tasting to book a space.

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
 
Live Music in the Orchard: Crozet Jam Band
Live Music in the Orchard: Crozet Jam Band

Come, join us and enjoy live music and Cider with The Crozet Jam Band

Led by guitarist Jim Pyles, this informal jam session reminiscent of an Irish pub, all guests are encouraged to sing along, and participants are invited to make requests from the 170+ (and growing) songbook! They really rock out, with everyone feeling each other’s beat, to create a cohesive sound with a raucous, funky feel, "our band and our audience are a diverse group that represents a broad spectrum of ages, lifestyles, and talents. The jam sessions blend sounds, but they also blend people.”

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Vintage Apple Tasting
Vintage Apple Tasting

Our CEO and Historically Studied apple enthusiast, Will be guiding a journey into the past to explore secrets that ought not be forgotten. You may think you like apples but if you decide to join us, you will find out why vintage apples plant a seed of passion in all who try their crisp delights.

Tickets cost $25 - Please click the link https://shop.albemarleciderworks.com/product/Vintage-Apple-Tasting to book a space.

11:30 am to 12:30 pm
 
Vintage Apple Tasting
Vintage Apple Tasting

Our CEO and Historically Studied apple enthusiast, Will be guiding a journey into the past to explore secrets that ought not be forgotten. You may think you like apples but if you decide to join us, you will find out why vintage apples plant a seed of passion in all who try their crisp delights.

Tickets cost $25 - Please click the link https://shop.albemarleciderworks.com/product/Vintage-Apple-Tasting to book a space.

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
 
Live Music in the Orchard: Irish Music
Live Music in the Orchard: Irish Music Enjoy this energetic and eclectic Irish jam session every 2nd Sunday of the month. Patrick & Aaron Olwell and friends play their fine renditions of traditional tunes all afternoon.
  • Light bites and hard cider will be available for purchase by the glass, bottle, or flight.
  • Outside food is welcome; feel free to bring a picnic!
  • ABC laws prohibit the consumption of outside alcoholic beverages
*Musicians will setup in the Orchard Room during inclement weather
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Cider Smackdown 2023
Cider Smackdown 2023

The Cider Smackdown just keeps getting bigger and badder! Virginia cideries go head-to-head in this annual competition to showcase our state's best ciders. This year’s theme: Virginia Hewes Crab. Join us for a night of tasting, snacks, and a chance to chat with cider enthusiasts across Virginia.

We’re keeping things casual with a tasting session beginning at 7 pm which will include a mini-workshop on how to taste cider. Don’t miss our grazing table as you blind taste through the best Virginia Crab ciders VA has to offer. Submit your vote and stick around for the winner's announcement at the evening's end!

Event begins at 7pm on Friday, November 17th and will include self-guided tastings and light bites. Winner will be announced at 9pm. Click here to purchase tickets

Not close to Charlottesville? Check out the sister-event at Sage Bird Cider in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Stay tuned for participating cidery announcements coming soon!

Tickets include:
Unlimited blind tastings of all ciders
Light bites

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
 
Live Music in the Orchard: Wavelength
Live Music in the Orchard: Wavelength

Enjoy live music by The Wavelength! The Wavelength is a consortium of Charlottesville's finest musicians. Led by vocalist/harmonica Waverly Milor, they perform vintage rock, blues, originals and more. The Wavelength is professional, passionate and is known for highly engaging shows!

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Live Music in the Orchard: LUA Project
Live Music in the Orchard: LUA Project

Enjoy live music by Lua Project! Lua is a cultural pollinator, bridging musical styles from different continents and different centuries. They write about contemporary themes, about families, and people and work and loss, but draw on the musical traditions of their own families' past. The music is inspired by Mexican Son, Appalachian song forms, Jewish and Eastern European tonalities, baroque melodic ideas, and Scotch-Irish narrative storytelling approaches. They strive to create a repertoire that constitutes new traditional music that they will be able to pass down to their children to experience, transform, and pass on.Grab a glass and relax the weekend away in musical bliss!

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Closed for Thanksgiving
Closed for Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!  Albemarle CiderWorks will be closed Thursday, 11/26. If you need cider for your own Thanksgiving celebrations, check out our retailers here.

We are open regular hours the rest of the week.

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Live Music in the Orchard: The Pollocks
Live Music in the Orchard: The Pollocks

Join us for cider and live music

The Pollocks are led by Jason Pollock, former guitarist and songwriter for Seven Mary Three. In the mid 90s, Jason penned such hits as "Cumbersome" and "Water's Edge", sold a few million albums, and toured extensively. "The Pollocks" were formed in 2014, when a friend urged him to get back into the game and publish his catalog of songs that had been piling up. Their music can best be described as American rock, with the right amount of soul: The Rolling Stones meets Jefferson Airplane. There's some Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and Neil Young thrown in for good measure. The psychedelic South, in three part harmony.

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