The organizers of Gay Wine Weekend 2015 have announced that this year’s event, due to take place 19-21 June in Northern California’s Sonoma Valley, will include an LGBTI Business Expo.

Gay Wine Weekend 2015 will offer world-class wine, awe-inspiring food, music, dancing and networking.

Events will include a welcome reception at host hotel, Macarthur Place Hotel and Spa, several dinners and winery visits, cookery demonstrations and poolside dance parties. A wine auction will raise money for Face2Face – a local HIV network.

The weekend is organized by travel company, Out in the Vineyard.

‘We have had so many requests from local Sonoma business to participate in our three-day LGBT wine event and AIDS fundraiser,’ says Out In The Vineyard co-Founder, Mark Vogler in a statement, ‘that this year we are including an LGBT Business Expo at Gay Wine Weekend, where Sonoma business can present their goods and services to members of the $750 billion LGBT consumer market.’

This is the fifth year of the Gay Wine Weekend, with Vogler telling Gay Star Business that he is expecting around 600 participants across the entire weekend. Past weekends have an 80:20 mix of men and women. This year’s event will include the festival’s first ‘All Ladies Dinner’, while another highlight will be the annual T Dance.

‘Our big, Twilight T Dance is my favorite event of the weekend,’ says Bogler. ‘It’s the largest event with about 450 people dancing at through twilight time out in a vineyard. This year’s dance takes place at California’s oldest winery, the historic Buena Vista Winery, founded in 1846.’

More information on Gay Wine Weekend can be found here.