An annual affair

Toast of the Town

Please note that Toast of the Town is a 21+ event.

We’re back for our fifteenth year on March 7, 2025 at the Columbus Convention and Trade Center! World-class wines, fine foods, hand-crafted beers, and Southern spirits all await you at the Grand Tasting.

Mark your calendars and join us in meeting the chefs, vintners, distillers and brewmasters who will be on hand to share their toasts and tastes with you. Celebrate with our wine walls and a silent auction filled with a variety of wines, trips and unique treasures!

BENEFITTING

Columbus Symphony
Orchestra 

Founded in 1855, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (CSO) became the second orchestra formed in the United States and first orchestra in Georgia. Representing at least 54 localities in the Southeast, the CSO is a blend of local and regional musicians. The CSO performs at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts and produces a variety of concerts each year, including classical masterworks, contemporary pop favorites, chamber orchestra selections, and a series of educational and outreach concerts for local children and families. In addition to their artistic programming, the CSO reaches out to over 6,000 local students and children through in-school and after-school educational outreach programming.

Participating

Vendors 

We could not be more honored to host some of the most interesting and creative brands and vendors to come out of the American Southeast. We pride ourselves on bringing these amazing vendors to Toast of the Town. Together, we will celebrate an amazing array of brilliant culinary, beer, wine, spirit and specialty food providers in our area.  

Interested in participating in the Toast of the Town Grand Tasting in 2025?

As a participating Vendor, you have the opportunity to showcase and promote your products uniquely to around 1,600 event guests in one night. In addition, your participation enriches the community by supporting the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. There is no booth rental fee for vendors. Toast of the Town will promote all participating vendors before and after the event through social media and other forms of advertising.

Below is the current list of participating vendors at the 2024 Grand Tasting. Check back regularly for updates to this list.

Culinary

1. 11th and bay southern table

2. 219 food group

3. charred oak kitchen + bar

4. chicken salad chick

5. Classic fare catering

6. clean eatz

7. columbus georgia convention & trade center

8. Country’s Barbecue

9. country club of columbus

10. denim & oak riverfront restaurant

11. golden donut late night

12. green island country club

13. It’s Tamale Time

14. lillie”s Q

15. Millhouse kitchen + Bar

16. my boulange & tower pizza

17. parker’s pantry

18. pour decisions sports bar

19. rising flour pizza

20. stock market dueling kitchens

21. t-bones steakhouse & Grill

22. tuesdays street tacos & burritos

23. warehouse 9

24. west georgia farms cooperative

25. wicked hen

Catering

1. chef e’s catering

2. classic fare catering

3. parker’s pantry

Distributors

1. atlanta beverage co.

2. cathead distillery

3. eagle rock distributing co.

4. empire distributing

5. Georgia crown

6. john emerald distilling company

7. log still distilling

8. prime wine & spirts

9. triangle beverage

10. united distributing

11. wild leap brewing co.

12. wild leap vodka

13. winebow fine wine wine & spirts

14. the wimberly collection

Beer

1. audatius “b” blonde

2. back forty beer co.

3. beacon brewing co.

4. beers of the moment

5. bell’s brewery

6. blue moon brewing

7. chattabrewchee southern brewhouse

8. cuchulainn iriah red ale

9. corona premier

10. corona refresca

11. fog machine

12. fire maker brewing company

13. hillside ipa

14. lazy river lager

15. leinenkugel’s brewing

16. line creek brewing cmpany

17. mike’s hard lemonade

18. modelo oro

19. monday night brewing compamny

20. new belgium brewing company

21. pacifico

22. panama city sunset

23. scofflaw brewing co.

24. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

25. southern brewing company

26. spindrift spiked

27. terrapin beer co

28. toppling goliath brewing co

29. tutto pepe italian pilsner

30. wild leap alpha abstraction dipa vol. 26

31. wild leap chance ipa

32. Wild leap island haze ipa

33. wild leap local gold blonde ale

34. winged warrior red ale

35. zamba - rillo ipa

Private Clubs

1. country club of columbus

2. green island country club

Specialty

1. the brick and mortar cafe

2. better than booze seltzer

3. crushers truck sauce

4. custom cake studio

5. derby mule drink rimmer

6. Graze craze

7. German Food, Gifts and More

8. how sweet it is cake studio

9. jennybean cupcakes

10. midtown cake

11. native nut company

12. parsons cookie co.

13. peach cobbler factory

14. sarah’s sweet sensations

15. star spangled tea

Spirits

1. alma del jaguar tequila

2. bare bones vodka

3. barrell craft spirits

4. blue ridge blackberry whiskey

5. bytes and brews cocktails

6. castle & key distillery

7. cathead honeysuckle vodka

8. cathead original vodka

9. cathead raspberry vodka

10. cathead satsuma mandarin vodka

11. cathead sparkiling cans

12. cayman jack

13. costa tequila

14. cutwater spirts

15. dr. stoner’s herba loco

16. dr. stoner’s herb flavored vodka

17. dr. stoner’s island bush rum

18. dr. stoner’s smokey whiskey

19. fighting 69th irish whiskey

20. fire on the mountain

21. gin mare

22. good neighbor peach lemon whiskey

23. high noon vodka seltzer

24. jack daniel’s tennessee whiskey

25. John Emerald Distilling Company

26. john emerald elizabeth fig liqueur

27. john emerald elizabeth pecan liqueur

28. john emerald elizabeth satsuma liqueur

29. john emerald elizabeth vodka

30. johhn emerald gene’s spiced rum

31. john emerald hugh wesley’s barrel rested gin

32. john emerald hugh wesley’s gin

33. john emerald purveyor’s series double oak bourbon

34. john emerald purveyor’s series double wood rye

35. john emerald sarah’s silver rum

36. john emerald single malt whiskey

37. john emerald spurgeon’s barrel aged rum

38. kah tequila

39. la gritona tequila

40. log still distillery

41. ma fannie vodka

42. middle west distillery

43. mulholland new world gin

44. nutrl

45. old soul bourbon single barrel 109 proof

46. old soul bourbon small batch

47. papa joe’s single malt whiskey

48. RM rose straight bourbon whiskey

49. smooth apple whiskey

50. stickey pete peanut butter whiskey

51. sunny d vodka seltzer

52. trellis beverage

53. wilderness trail distillery

54. wild leap creamsicle mojito premium vodka cocktail

55. wild leap espresso martini premium vodka cocktail

56. wild leap grapefruit peach premium vodka cocktail

57. wild leap strawberry peach premium vodka cocktail

58. wimberly 116 bourbon

59. the bottle shop

60. the wimberly collection

Wine

1. a&d pinot noir

2. albert bichot fuisse white burgundy

3. blake’s hard cider

4. bound + determined cabernet

5. castel sallegg elisa cuvee white blend

6. cavicchioli 1928 prosecco

7. chalone chardonnay

8. charles mignon premium reserve rose champagne

9. chateau cotes de blaignan bordeaux

10. chateau la costa rose

11. chemistry pinot gris

12. cigar box malbec

13. cult cabernet sauvigon

14. dashwood sauvignon blanc

15. doppio passo primitivo

16. elizabeth chamber pinot noir

17. fabre en provence rose

18. ferrari carano fume blanc

19. firestone riesling

20. gio pinot grigo

21. grant barge paso ink cabernet sauvignon

22. j. wilkes chardonnay

23. kunde estate zinfandel

24. lovo prosecco

25. mercato pesce Bianco

26. mercato carne rosso

27. nappa cut cabernet

28. opolo estate cabernet

29. perelada brut cava

30. purple hands lone oak ranch pinot noir

31. Renegade lemonade wine

32. roth heritage red blend

33. smith & elliot cabernet

34. smith & elliot chardonnay

35. stoller pinot noir

36. tenut falezza amarone

37. the ned sauvignon blanc

38. trivento white malbec

39. urbantree hard cider

Preferred Package Store

1. the bottle shop

See below for our available sponsorship packages. Click Here to request information on customizing a sponsorship package.

Mezzanine Package

Sponsorship Investment: $6,000

• Logo and listing on the Toast of the Town website 

• Inclusion in the Toast of the Town mobile web site marketing campaign 

• Logo inclusion in the Toast of the Town event program 

• Logo on sponsor signs displayed night of event 

• Logo displayed in the Symphony e-newsletter (distributed to 3,500+ monthly) 

• Logo displayed on video presentation in lobby at CSO concerts

• Four (4) Tickets to the barrel & Bay dinner presented by the bottle shop 

• sixteen (16) tickets to the Grand Tasting Event   

• Thirty-six (36) Tickets to CSO concert events

Balcony Package

Sponsorship Investment: $1,900

• Logo and listing on the Toast of the Town website 

• Logo inclusion in the Toast of the Town event program 

• Logo on sponsor signs displayed night of event 

• Logo displayed in the Symphony e-newsletter. (distributed to 3,500+ monthly) 

• Eight (8) tickets to the Grand Tasting Event  

• Twelve (12) Tickets to CSO concert events 

Connoisseur Club

Mezzanine Sponsors

Orchestra Sponsors

Balcony Sponsors

Preferred Package Store and Wine Wall Sponsor

Box Office sponsors

Albrights, Inc. ~ Automated Business Machines ~ EMC Engineering ~Insurance office of America ~ Cascade Package Store ~ The Locals Real Estate Group, Coldwell Banker KPDD ~ WLTZ ~ McMullen Funeral Home ~

Media Sponsors

The Bottle Shop Wine Walls

Featuring two wine walls presented by The Bottle Shop!

Live at 7:00pm & 8:30pm

sold at the event

$25 per ticket plus sales tax and fees

Each ticket corresponds to a bottle on the wine wall. See below for the breakdown of values of the bottles you could win!

32 bottles with a value of at least $25

15 bottles with a value of at least $50

5 bottles with a value of at least $100

Silent Auction

Volunteer

BE A VOLUNTEER AT TOAST OF THE TOWN! As a Volunteer, you will be given a Volunteer Badge which provides you with free entry to the Grand Tasting. Work your shift, then enjoy the event! Volunteer opportunities include:

• Ticket taking & check-in

• Wine glass distribution

• Program distribution

• Silent auction

Contact Us

We’re here to answer any questions or address any comments you might have regarding the Toast of the Town event. Please fill out the form below and we’ll be in touch with you as soon as we can.