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 2025 Grand Tasting. Check back regularly for updates to this list.

Culinary

1. 11th and bay southern table

2. Annillo’s Italian Pizzeria

3. b.merrell’s

4. bella’s caketering

5. bernard’s sports bar

6. Chicken salad chick

7. columbus Georgia convention & trade center

8. Country’s BBQ

9. dawghouse sports bar & grill

10. denim & oak riverfront restaurant

11. dishoom bistro

12. german food, gifts & more

13. la’s to go & catering

14. lillie’s q

15. mcculler’s restaurant

16. millhouse kitchen + bar

17. my boulange & tower pizza

18. parker’s pantry

19. pour decisions sports bar

20. snacks chabelita

21. The bibb mill

22. the food mill

23. shane’s rib shack

24. vego taco

25. tuesdays street taco & burritos

26. warehouse 9

27. whitewater bistro

28. west georgia farms cooperative

Catering

1. bella’s caketering

2. chef e’s catering llc

3. classic fare catering

4. columbus Georgia convention & trade center

5. LA’s to go & catering

6. parker’s pantry

7. tuesdays street taco & burritos

Distributors

1. Atlanta beverage company

2. cathead distillery

3. eagle rock distributing, co.

4. empire distributing, Inc

5. Georgia Crown

6. John Emerald distilling company

7. prime wine & spirits

8. savannah distributing

9. still pond winery & distillery

10. the wimberly collection

11. triangle beverage

12. wild leap brew Co.

13. wild leap vodka

14. winebow fine wine & spirits

Beer

1. alpha abstraction Vol.28

2. audacious b blonde

3. Back forty Beer company

4. beach cat blonde ale

5. bell’s brewery

6. caymen jack

7. chattabrewchee southern brewhouse

8. cookies & cream porter

9. coors banquet

10. corona sunbrew

11. devil’s staircase

12. First crush ipa

13. good chute pilsner

14. happy cowboy

15. island haze ipa

16. juicy af ipa

17. leinenkugel’s summer shandy

18. line creek brewing Company

19. local gold

20. maverick lager

21. mike’s hard lemonade

22. mike’s zero

23. miller highlife stubby

24. modelo oro

25. new belgium brewing company

26. peroni brewery

27. super pumped plane seltzer

28. the real dill

29. topo chico hard seltzer

30. truck stop honey brown ale

31. vizzy hard seltzer

32. white claw seltzer co

33. Wild leap brewing company

Private Clubs

1. country club of columbus

2. green island country club

Specialty

1. Brick & mortar cafe

2. dani’s cheesecakes

3. Derby mule rimmers

4. Freaky Fries

5. graze craze

6. how sweet it is cake studio

7. native nut company

8. parson’s cookie co.

9. peach cobbler factory

10. sarah’s sweet sensations

11. Sweet Charlottes Kettle Corn

12. whit’s frozen custard

Spirits

1. 229 apple vodka

2. 229 peach vodka

3. 229 pineapple vodka

4. 229 vodka

5. Bare Bone Vodka

6. barrell craft spirits

7. blackberry lemonade rtd

8. c4 bourbon

9. c4 cask strength bourbon

10. c4 smoked bourbon

11. casa mexico tequila

12. castle & key distillery

13. castle & key restoration rye

14. castle & key rise season gin

15. castle & key sacred spring vodka

16. castle & key small batch bourbon

17. cathead honeysuckle vodka

18. cathead original vodka

19. cathead raspberry vodka

20. cutwater spirits

21. dark arts amburana stave finish rye

22. dark arts barely legal straight bourbon

23. dark arts french oak stave finish bourbon

24. dark arts x the bottle shop: chattahoochee grand cru

25. dark arts whiskey house

26. elizabeth liquers

27. elizabeth vodka

28. egan’s irish whiskey

29. fire on the mountain cinnamon whiskey

30. gene’s spiced rum

31. good boy vodka

32. good boy vodka seltzers

33. good neighbor peach and lemon whiskey

34. hoodoo espresso vodka

35. john daly hard iced tea with lemmonade read-to-drink cocktail

36. John Emerald distilling company

37. john’s alabama single malt whiskey

38. la gritona tequila

39. le shay portier vsop cognac

40. kings counting distilling

41. ma fannie vodka

42. mulholland gin

43. old soul bourbob single barrell 109 proof

44. old soul bourbon small batch

45. nightowl martini

46. nightoul vodka espresso martini

47. nutrl vodka seltzer

48. papa joe’s single malt whiskey

49. phenomenal spirits

50. porter’s gin

51. purveyor’s double oak bourbob

52. purveyor;s double wood rye

53. rm rose apple whiskey

54. rm rose distilling company

55. rm rose forefather bourbon

56. rm rose founder’s bourbon

57. ron izalco rum

58. row 94 bourbon

59. ry3 whiskey

60. spurgeon’s aged rum

61. sticky pete peanut butter whickey

62. surfside

63. surfside green tea & vodka

64. The bottle shop

65. the wimberly collection

66. trellis wine & spirits

67. wild leap spirits

68. wild leap vodka

69. wilderness trail distilling

70. wimberly 116 bourbon

Wine

1. alain de la treille pinot noir

2. amici nappa valley cabernet sauvigon

3. argyle pinot noir willamette valley

4. aveleda winery

5. bodega el esteco don david reserve malbec valles calchaquies

6. bydand wines

7. champagne billecart-salmon

8. chateau d’estoublon roseblood rose

9. dashwood sauvignon blanc marlborough

10. Dr. loosen alchol removed riesling

11. dr. loosen blue slate riesling

12. dr. loosen dr. l riesling

13. distinguished vineyards

14. electra black red blend wine

15. electra red moscato

16. electra rose moscato

17. electra white moscato

18. famiglia rivetti langhe nebbiolo

19. farmhouse peach

20. farmhouse peach 21

21. farmhouse strawberry 21

22. ferrari-carano chardonnay sonoma country

23. fidelity zinfandel by railyard vineyard, alexander valley

24. fontana candida pinot grigio delle venezie

25. goose ridge wine

26. gran castillo rocio cava brut

27. honest thief paso robles cabernet sauvignon

28. katherine goldschmidt alexander valley stonemason hill cabernet sauvignon

29. knudsen vineyards willamette valley pinot noir

30. les glories cremant de loire brut cuvee

31. little star wine

32. lone eagle wines

33. markham nappa valley merlot

34. marzal ribeiras do morrazo albarino

35. mercer family vineyards horse heaven hills red blend

36. notchaway red

37. notchaway white

38. obsession wines

39. olema cotes de provance rose

40. purple hands winery

41. quady wine

42. renegade lemonade wine

43. riva de la rose gavi

44. royal prince wines

45. singing tree russian river valley chardonnay

46. the ned wines

47. tosalet montsant

48. trellis wine & spirits

49. villa wolf pinot noir rose

50. vya sweet vermouth

51. zenato pinot grigio

52. zenato ripassa

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) 

• Complimentary full page, full color ad in the cso’s digital program

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

• Twenty (20) tickets to the Grand Tasting Event   

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

Balcony Package

Sponsorship Investment: $2,000

• 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 

• complimentary quarter page, full color ad in the CSO’s digital program

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

• Ten (10) 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

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

• Silent auction

Contact Us

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