Restaurant • Wine Bar • Wine Shop
"William C. Curtis… is a leading authority on Virginia wines..."-R.W. Apple Jr., The New York Times
"Bill Curtis, the region’s leading raconteur and purveyor of historic wines..." -John Hailman, author, Thomas Jefferson on Wine
"This dude knows his wine..." -Scott Jones, Southern Living
When Tastings started in 1990 it was the only
fully integrated Wine Shop/ Wine Bar/ Restaurant on the East Coast. About twenty years later, there is still only a handful of establishments in the U.S. such as Tastings.
Besides being an outstanding wine shop in its own right as well as a fine restaurant, Tastings offers a large selection of wines by the glass. Wines are offered in flights for experimentation with a meal for a modest fee over the retail price of wines in the shop.
Tastings' restaurant serves simple, direct cuisine that allows each customer a gustatory and educational experience in a friendly but professional fine restaurant. Online reservations
Tastings is also the home of the Wine Club of
Charlottesville, often hosting tasting dinners and informal events, usually
scheduled Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday evenings.
In the restaurant, our aim is to present true flavors of local products that are either sustainably (all-natural) or organically-raised. We don't crowd the plate and clutter your palate with eight different ingredients, leaving you dazed as to what went better with which wine and questioning whether there was fig in the fig vinaigrette. A squint at our menu here ought to highlight all this. Welcome. –Bill Curtis