Come soak in the beauty of Lake Casitas at the Rotary Club of Ojai-West's annual Ojai Wine Festival! From its humble beginning in 1987, the Ojai Wine Festival has grown into a leading regional event attracting approximately 5,000 people from throughout the Central Coast and Southern California. In the last few years the number of attending wineries has doubled to over sixty. The event offers a fantastic variety of twenty specialty beers. Each year we have a wonderful selection of local restaurants selling delicious culinary delights. To add fun and excitement to the event we have arts and crafts vendors, a steady stream of musical entertainment, a dance floor, and free boat rides on the Rotary boat. Our silent wine auction has become a popular attraction featuring fine wines, private tasting parties, VIP winery tours and other wine related items.
General admission includes unlimited tastes of wine and beer and an elegant crystal souvenir wine glass. VIP ticket holders have all the privileges of general admission and enjoy early event entry plus exclusive use of the VIP Lounge. The VIP Lounge offers premium shaded seating along the stunning lakefront. VIP ticket holders can indulge in an all-inclusive supreme selection of fine wines and specialty beers by the glass along with scrumptious hors d’oeuvres. VIP Non-Drink tickets are available as well.
Sunset Magazine named Ojai one of the top five food and wine havens in the west for 2009 and many believe the festival has played a role by introducing people from throughout Southern California and the Central Coast to the bounty of Ojai. Since 1987 the Ojai Wine Festival has raised over $865,000.00. All the funds raised from the Ojai Wine Festival go to aid many important Rotary projects; in particular our hard hit public schools, international clean drinking water projects as well as eradicating polio worldwide. For a complete list of the Rotary Club of Ojai-West's projects please see
http://www.rotaryojaiwest.org.
Wine and beer connoisseurs can delight in over 60 of California’s award winning wineries with more than 250 selections of wine and 15 excellent Premium Beers and Microbrews.
Come get a taste of the Rotary Floating Classroom's great educational program for our area's local schools and take a free 20 minute ride on the lake.
Get ready to blast into the past with Captain Cardiac and the Coronaries. Plus experience the British invasion with the Beatles tribute group Sergeant Pepper. Get ready to dance!
An enchanting selection of vendors will tempt the shopper in you with their fine arts, crafts, clothing, wine accessories, gourmet delights and much more.
Ojai has a lot to offer visitors from antiquing and gallery hopping to shopping, sightseeing and personal pampering. http://www.ojaichamber.org
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If you are attending the Ojai Music Festival take advantage of their Sunday break and our free round trip shuttle from downtown Ojai. We promise you a wonderful time.
Take advantage of the great rates offered exclusively for Ojai Wine Festival attendees at several local Hotels and Inns.
Special Lodging Offers
You can purchase culinary creations from ten of Ojai’s finest restaurants. Ojai was voted one the top five food and wine havens in the west by Sunset Magazine in 2009.
Roadrunner is donating a free shuttle to and from the Festival. The shuttle will take the Ojai Trolley route. Learn m ore.
New this year! VIP Tickets are available for the VIP Lounge with early entry that begins at 12:00 p.m., exclusive fine wines, Belgian craft beers by the glass and hors d'oeuvres all along the beautiful lake front. Learn m ore.
Tempt yourself with the valuable wine related products up for auction in our annual Silent Wine Auction featuring collectible fine wines, private tasting parties and VIP tours of wineries.
