GrapeFest
Grapevine, TX · Food & Drink
- When
- September 17–20, 2026
- Where
- Historic Downtown Grapevine · Grapevine · TX
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The largest wine festival in the Southwest, run by the city of Grapevine since 1986 and centred on Texas vintners. The 2026 edition is the 40th; the GrapeStomp competition and the People's Choice tasting are the fixtures people turn up for.
The history within reach
- GrapeFestsame spot
The largest wine festival in the Southwest, run by the city of Grapevine since 1986 and centred on Texas vintners.
- Grapevine Parade of Lightssame spot
Historic Main Street in Grapevine hosts North Texas's largest lighted holiday parade, with more than 100 illuminated floats and marching bands.
The city runs excursion trains out of the restored 1888 Cotton Belt depot on Main Street, over 21 miles of old Cotton Belt track into the Fort Worth Stockyards.
Local historians started pushing to save the downtown in the 1970s, as the new airport turned the surrounding cotton and dairy land into runways and warehouses.
In August 1843 Sam Houston met chiefs and captains of ten Native nations out on the Grape Vine Prairie, and the treaty of peace and commerce signed there opened the land to homesteaders.