Name: Alsace Wine Tasting with Achillée + Pépin at Botanist & Barrel
Start: 2026-10-16T17:30:00.000-04:00
End: 2026-10-16T19:30:00.000-04:00
Location: Botanist and Barrel

Alsace Wine Tasting with Achillée + Pépin at Botanist & Barrel

This Friday's tasting at Botanist & Barrel heads to Alsace, France. Maxime Goudou, national sales director for Domaine Achillée and its natural wine project Pépin, pours six wines and tells the stories of the small growers behind them.

Stop by the downtown tasting bar on Broadway between 5:30 and 7:30. It's $15 to taste all six, or free when you take a bottle home.

No reservation needed. Grab a friend, swing by after work and find a new favorite bottle.

Botanist & Barrel is a natural cidery and winery with a tasting bar at 32 Broadway in downtown Asheville. They call themselves the South's first natural cidery and winery and the first to make pet-nat ciders in the Southeast, working with heirloom apples, muscadines and blueberries grown spray-free.

Locals like that the ciders and wines are wild-fermented, unfiltered, gluten-free and never pasteurized, so they taste different from anything else downtown.

Botanist and Barrel

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Alsace Wine Tasting with Achillée + Pépin at Botanist & Barrel

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