Sandestin Wine Festival

The Event

One of America’s most sought-after wine events and the premier event along the entire Emerald Coast, the Sandestin Wine Festival gathers nearly 5,000 attendees and hundreds of wines from around the world at Destin’s Baytowne Wharf each year (since 1986) for four straight, sold-out days of pouring, pairing, sipping, spitting, tippling, and toasting.

The Special Sauce

This upscale yet laid-back beach-town booze-fest called for a fine balance of luxury, accessibility, refinement, and unapologetic, alcohol-fueled fun—which got us thinking of the roaring 20s. Modernized, Art-Deco-inspired linework, dusky pastels, and a flash of metallic foil paired beautifully with black-and-white and palette-soaked event photography to unite both white-starched-elegance and wine-stained-irreverence.

“The Village of Baytowne Wharf is a dining, shopping, and nightlife destination in Sandestin with a full schedule of festivals. The Sandestin Wine Festival has been around for more than three decades, so it has a long history and people expect consistency. Since 2009, we’ve relied on Jake to create fresh, amazing–images, like when he perfectly captured a beach wave in a wine glass. He listens and delivers what he promises—often well in advance of our deadlines. Jake makes my job so much easier.”

Julie Stuckey

Events and Marketing Manager

Village of Baytowne Wharf