Zach and Alexis here - wanting to stop in and say, “thank you for considering our wine festival!”.

Also to tell you a little about us: we are two normal people (who have/had non-restaurant day jobs) who fell in love with wine in 2019 and through that, fell in love with hospitality. In 2023, we opened Zero/Zero - a natural wine bar in Knoxville’s Happy Holler. 86’ed was born during a conversation with Laurence and Emily of Potchke, where we started dreaming about how/where we could throw a giant long-table dinner in Knoxville. One thing led to another (yadda yadda yadda) and next thing we knew… we threw a festival. Wine is meant to be enjoyed with others, and we can’t believe we get to host 450 soon-to-be friends and geek over the wines we love and think are exciting.