Wine Festivals Near Palm Coast, FL in Summer
Palm Coast itself has two summer wine events, one at each end of the season: the Mid-Summer Wine Walk at European Village, a $25 evening in June, and the Hammock Beach Food & Wine Classic, a $175 oceanfront evening in September. For July, or any other summer date, you drive: wine walks run every month in New Smyrna Beach, DeLand and Orlando, and August brings harvest festivals at vineyards in Callahan and Clermont.
The eight split more by format than by wine. The four walks cost $10 to $30 (or nothing published, in DeLand's case) and have you moving between shops and bars for an afternoon or evening. The resort Classic and the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival keep you on one site with chef stations or food kiosks, at a far bigger bill. A cheap night out points to a walk; a trip planned around wine points to the Classic or one of the harvest festivals.
Our picks
- A Saturday in any summer month: Wine Walk on Flagler Avenue. Held on a Saturday in most months, summer included, and $30 buys twenty tasting tickets and a keepsake glass for the shops and restaurants along the avenue.
- A family day out in August: Tuscan Rose Vineyards Harvest Festival. $20 general admission to a working muscadine vineyard at harvest, with a kids' zone, a grape stomp and a car show; tastings are sold as add-on passes.
At a glance
| Option | Ticket Price | Event Type | When It Runs | How Long It Lasts | City | Address |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25source | Wine walksource | Junesource | One eveningsource | Palm Coastsource | 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast, FL 32137source | |
| $175source | Food and wine festivalsource | Septembersource | One eveningsource | Palm Coastsource | 200 Ocean Crest Dr, Palm Coast, FL 32137source | |
| $30source | Wine walksource | Every month, including summersource | One daysource | New Smyrna Beachsource | 401 Flagler Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169source | |
| Wine walksource | Every month, including summersource | One eveningsource | DeLandsource | 117 N. Woodland Blvd, DeLand, FL 32720source | ||
| $20source | Winery festivalsource | Augustsource | One daysource | Callahansource | 45884 Bismark Rd, Callahan, FL 32011source | |
| Theme park festivalsource | Late August into fallsource | Runs for monthssource | Lake Buena Vistasource | 200 Epcot Center Drive, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32821source | ||
| $10source | Wine walksource | Every month, including summersource | One eveningsource | Orlandosource | 23 S Osceola Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801source | |
| $10source | Winery festivalsource | Augustsource | Multi-day weekendsource | Clermontsource | 19239 U.S. Highway 27, Clermont, FL 34715source |
What runs in June, July and August
June has the Mid-Summer Wine Walk in Palm Coast. July has no one-off festival on this list at all, which is why the three monthly walks matter: the Flagler Avenue walk in New Smyrna Beach on a Saturday, Wine Women Chocolate in DeLand on the second Wednesday (its 2026 summer dates were June 10, July 8 and August 12), and the Thornton Park District 2nd Thursday Wine & Art Walk in Orlando.
August is the busiest month. Both vineyard harvest festivals fall in it, and the EPCOT festival opens late in the month and runs daily into November. The Hammock Beach Classic closes out the season in mid to late September.
The two vineyard harvest festivals
Tuscan Rose in Callahan and Lakeridge in Clermont both celebrate the August grape harvest with a stomp, but the tickets buy different things. Tuscan Rose's $20 covers the farm grounds and the market, with tastings, stomps and charcuterie picnics sold on top. Lakeridge's $10 already includes a wine tasting and a grape stomp ticket, children get in free, and parking is free.
The difference is in the drive and the track record. Tuscan Rose is about an hour and a half north of Palm Coast and first ran in 2026; the Lakeridge Winery harvest festival is roughly two hours away, spans a weekend, and is past its thirtieth year.
What the ticket covers
The Hammock Beach Classic's $175 evening is built around unlimited pours from roughly ninety wines and chef-run food stations, and the resort sells a package that bundles a room with tickets. At Thornton Park the walking and the art are free and the $10 wristband is only for tasting. Wine Women Chocolate publishes no admission price and is an 18 and over evening, so budget for the shops instead. The EPCOT festival adds nothing to your bill but needs a valid park ticket, which makes it a theme park day first and a wine outing second.
The options in detail
Mid-Summer Wine Walk at European Village
The one wine event that actually happens inside Palm Coast during the summer months. Vincent's Clubhouse, a local nonprofit serving people with autism and other developmental disabilities, runs it as a fundraiser at European Village, the pastel open-air plaza off Palm Harbor Parkway that holds most of the city's restaurants and bars. The evening pairs curated tastings with an artisan vendor market and live music, and you can stay on for dinner at one of the village restaurants afterward. It sits in European Village's Twilight Market series rather than standing alone as a long-running festival, so check the venue's current lineup before planning a trip around it.
Hammock Beach Food & Wine Classic
The biggest wine event in Flagler County, held on the oceanfront lawn at Hammock Beach Golf Resort & Spa a few miles south of Palm Coast proper. It is a single evening built around unlimited pours from roughly ninety wines, chef-run food stations, a Florida craft beer garden, wine masterclasses and live music, and the resort sells a package that bundles a room with tickets. This is by far the priciest option here and the most polished: expect a resort crowd rather than a street-fair one. It is in its fourth year and lands in mid to late September, right at the end of summer.
Wine Walk on Flagler Avenue
A monthly progressive tasting along Flagler Avenue, the beachside shopping strip in New Smyrna Beach, and the most dependable summer answer on this list because it runs on a Saturday in most months including June, July and August. Your passport buys twenty tasting tickets and a keepsake glass, and you spend the afternoon walking in and out of shops and restaurants that each pour from a rotating list of more than a hundred wines. The street is not closed to traffic, so this is an indoor hop rather than a block party. Tickets sell online in advance and for cash on the day at three welcome points along the avenue.
Wine Women Chocolate
A long-running monthly evening in downtown DeLand, held on the second Wednesday, where you pick up a passport at any participating shop and collect stamps as you sip and browse. It leans as much toward shopping and prizes as toward serious tasting: twelve stamps and at least one purchase get you into the drawing that closes the night at The Abbey Bar. Each month carries a costume theme, and it is an eighteen and over event. Organizers do not publish a fixed admission price, so budget for what you spend in the shops rather than for a ticket.
Tuscan Rose Vineyards Harvest Festival
A full day at a working muscadine vineyard north of Jacksonville, timed to the August harvest when Florida's grapes come in. The first one ran in 2026 and drew vineyard tours and tastings, a grape stomp where you pick the grapes you stomp, a vendor market, a kids' zone, a car show and a muscadine pie baking contest. General admission covers the farm grounds and the market, with tastings, stomps and charcuterie picnics sold as add-on passes on top. It is the most family-friendly option here, and about an hour and a half north of Palm Coast.
EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival
The largest food and wine event within driving distance, running daily from late August deep into November at Walt Disney World. Global Marketplace kiosks ringing World Showcase sell small plates and pours from six continents, with the Eat to the Beat concert series most nights and scavenger hunts for children. The catch on price is real: the festival adds nothing to your bill, but you need a valid EPCOT ticket to get through the gate, so the true cost is a theme park day. Worth folding in if an Orlando trip was already on the cards, harder to justify as a wine outing on its own.
Thornton Park District 2nd Thursday Wine & Art Walk
A monthly evening walk through Thornton Park, the walkable district just east of Lake Eola in downtown Orlando, run as a fundraiser by the neighborhood's main street association. A wristband and tasting cup get you a pour at each of more than twenty bars, shops and restaurants, with art vendors, live music and a night market along the way. Walking and the art are free, and you only pay if you want to sample. It is dog friendly, and the check-in point moves from month to month, so confirm where to collect your glass before you set out.
Lakeridge Winery Annual Harvest Festival & Grape Stomp
Florida's best known winery festival, past its thirtieth year, held over an August weekend on the hills of the state's largest winery in Clermont. Admission is cheap for what it covers: a wine tasting and a grape stomp ticket, alongside live music from two acts a day, more than sixty arts and crafts vendors, a food court and free parking, with children admitted free. The 2026 edition was the first return to the full pre-pandemic format after several scaled-back years. It is the longest drive on this list at roughly two hours from Palm Coast, but it is the closest thing Florida has to a traditional harvest celebration.
How we researched this
Inside Palm Coast, summer holds only two wine events, so we read "near" as roughly a two-hour drive and "summer" as June through mid-September. That brought in six more and kept out some close calls: the St. Augustine Wine Walk takes a summer break, Daytona Beach's wine walks run from October to May, the St. Augustine Food + Wine Festival is in May, and Village Hops & Harvest at European Village pours beer. The Busch Gardens Food, Wine & Garden Festival in Tampa does run through the summer, but at about 135 miles it is past any fair reading of near.
The table skips exact dates on purpose. It was built in September 2026, after most of that summer's events had happened, so the columns say which part of summer each falls in and how long it lasts. Two ticket cells are empty: EPCOT's festival has no ticket of its own, and DeLand's organizers publish no price. Lakeridge's details come from the regional magazine Lake & Sumter Style because the winery's own site could not be read, the Thornton Park check-in point moves every month, and the European Village walk ran in 2026 as part of a Twilight Market series with no stated plan to repeat, so look for next summer's dates and meeting points as each season is announced.