Seminars and company events
The Williamsburg Winery hosts company retreats, board meetings, client dinners and corporate parties for groups from 15 to 250 people, with overnight stays possible at its own 28-room hotel. The estate is a working wine farm called Wessex Hundred, on the edge of Williamsburg, Virginia, with indoor rooms and outdoor spaces spread across vineyards, fields and woods.
For a small leadership meeting, the White Horse Meeting Room seats 15 around an oak boardroom table and has audio-visual equipment with surround sound. Larger groups move to the banquet rooms for dinners, awards nights or a seated lunch between sessions. Because the hotel, the restaurant and the event rooms share one property, a two-day retreat can run without transfers. Requests go to a dedicated events team, and the inquiry form offers meetings and company parties as event types.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings use Wessex Hall as the reception room, with ceremonies on the Wessex Lawn, a raised lawn above young vineyards and a duck pond, or indoors in Wessex Hall or Westbury Hall. A bridal suite on the upper level of Westbury Hall serves as a getting-ready room. The barrel cellar, the vineyards and the hotel are used for photographs, and the hotel also hosts elopements. Birthdays, anniversaries and showers are booked through the same team.
Rooms and capacities
Wessex Hall is the largest room, 4,600 sq ft, built in 2000 with a cruciform timber frame inspired by 17th-century design, iron chandeliers and two stone fireplaces brought from Bordeaux. It takes 200 seated or 250 standing and opens onto an enclosed terrace. Westbury Hall, a Tudor-style barn with oak beams and good daylight, holds 60 seated or 100 standing. Below it, the Westbury Cellar, 748 sq ft, seats up to 32 at farm tables with windows onto the barrel cellar. The White Horse Meeting Room, 750 sq ft with a vaulted ceiling, seats 15 at a boardroom table.
Accommodation
Wedmore Place, the estate's boutique hotel, has 28 rooms and is styled after a European country inn. Teams and wedding guests can stay on site and walk to the event rooms and the restaurant.
Catering
Event menus come from the winery's own kitchen, which publishes a catering menu for 2026 and 2027. The Tavern, the on-site restaurant, serves lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch, and the winery's wines are poured at events.
History and setting
Patrick Duffeler and his late wife Peggy chose the farm after visiting 52 properties. They planted the first vines in 1985, released the first wine in 1988 and won a Virginia Governor's Cup in 1990. The name Wessex Hundred refers to a colonial land measure for a parcel able to support 100 families. Today the estate includes more than 50 acres of vines and about 150 acres of woods.
Getting there
The address is 5800 Wessex Hundred, Williamsburg, Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg, where the winery also runs a wine bar in Merchants Square, is a short drive away. Williamsburg has an Amtrak station, and Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport and Richmond International Airport serve the area.
