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09/05/2026

Labor Day weekend + Jazz Fest energy = the best excuse to gather your people. 🎷🍷 Detroit Jazz Fest returns September 4-7, turning Hart Plaza into the world’s largest free jazz stage with Ron Carter, Bobtamburitza singer who’s been charming audiences across the Balkans for over 60 years and is still going strong at 84. Fun fact: one of his own most beloved songs is about eight string players from Petrovaradinest retail w**e selection in the city. Sip in house or grab bottles to go for your own holiday celebration. Pour something good and let the weekend move at your own tempo with friends and family, no waiting in line. Detroit Jazz Festival Fdn

That’s where our featured pour comes in: “8 Guitar Players” Sauvignon Blanc, made by Zvonko Bogdan, the legendary Serbian tamburitza singer who’s been charming audiences across the Balkans for over 60 years and is still going strong at 84. Fun fact: one of his own most beloved songs is about eight string players from Petrovaradin, so the name is a wink from his own songbook straight into your glass. Crisp and bright, it’s built for easy sipping on a warm evening and turns any porch or patio into its own little festival stage. Come hang, no headliner required. 🥂 Vinarija Zvonko Bogdan

Holiday Hours:
Fri & Sat 12-11pm
Sun 1-9pm

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08/25/2026

Hey Royce Family! Our longest-standing bartender, Brian Vollmer is currently out of work for the next 8-12 weeks with a serious medical issue that necessitates him being off of his feet in order to recover. His GoFundMe is linked here and we hope that among us all we can help Brian cover his rent, utilities, and groceries while he's out of work. He goes into more detail about what he's dealing with in his description on the GoFundMe page.

If you're in a position to help Brian out, we know he'll be so grateful. Of course we'll be contributing as well and doing what we can to help get Brian back on his feet. Brian is such an important part of the Royce family - we love him and feel his absence every day - and we can't wait to have him back. And if you could share this post and his link that will make a huge difference in helping him meet his goal! Thank you all in advance! 💓

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08/25/2026

🏔️This Wednesday, we’re pouring our way through Washington’s Red Mountain with a producer whose whole philosophy feels like it was made for us. Avennia describes their own w**emaking as “doing less in order to let the fruit speak for itself” (native yeast fermentation, unfined bottling, no interventions layered on top of what the vineyard already gave them) and that kind of restraint and respect for place is exactly the ethos we’ve built The Royce around since day one. Joining us at the tasting table is Thomas Woodley, National Sales Director for Avennia, who’ll walk us through the story behind founder and w**emaker Chris Peterson’s hands off approach and why it’s earned Avennia a reputation as one of the Pacific Northwest’s most respected labels. If you’ve been searching for a Detroit w**e tasting with real substance behind the pour, this is the one to put on your calendar.

We’re featuring four w**es from the Lydian and Avennia lines, all sourced from some of Washington’s most prestigious vineyard sites. The Lydian Sauvignon Blanc is bright and immediate, built for easy sipping without sacrificing character. The Lydian GSM is a Rhone inspired blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre, layered with cranberry, spice and polished tannin. The Lydian Cabernet Sauvignon brings fresh sage, cassis and mocha in a medium bodied, food friendly frame. And closing things out, the Avennia Gravura is a Bordeaux style red blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, dense and structured with dark fruit, graphite and a long, layered finish. Come thirsty, come curious, and come ready to talk terroir with Thomas at one of Detroit’s favorite w**e bars. 🍷

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08/19/2026

This week, our Staff Picks series is going global 🌍Four w**es, four corners of the w**e world, no passport required. Bobby Vance, our W**e Buyer, has put together a lineup that touches down on the sandy shore of Lake Michigan 🏖️, climbs into South Africa’s rugged Cederberg Mountains 🇿🇦, rolls through the sun-soaked hills of Tuscany 🇮🇹, and lands in the high desert of Washington’s Red Mountain 🇺🇸. Pull up to the tasting table this week for Detroit’s favorite Wednesday w**e tasting, 6 to 7:30pm, and let’s travel together!

First up, a perennial favorite of ours - Stranger W**e Company’s Pinot Gris, grown along Lake Michigan’s stunning shoreline, where the lake keeps things cool and the w**es turn out bright and complex. From there we head to South Africa, where Cederberg’s Chenin Blanc comes down from some of the highest, most remote vineyards in the country, tucked into the mountains that give the estate its name. Badia al Colle brings us back to familiar ground with a classic Chianti, grown in the rolling hills of Tuscany and built for easy, everyday drinking. And for anyone who missed our recent Pacific Northwest class, we’ve got a treat: Hedges Red Mountain blend, a Bordeaux-style red from the sun-baked desert AVA that’s become one of Washington’s most exciting appellations. Four w**es, four very different landscapes, one very good Wednesday. 🍷

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08/05/2026

☀️ Staff picks are back at the tasting table, and this week Bobby’s taking you on a trip around the w**e world without leaving our Detroit w**e bar. Join us August 5th from 6 to 7:30pm for a lineup that spans Michigan to the Western Cape, four w**es built for porch pours, grilled everything, and the kind of summer evening where the glass never quite empties.

We’re starting close to home with Left Foot Charley’s Blanc, a Pinot Blanc blend from trusted Old Mission Peninsula grower partners and a bottle we’ve been excited to pour again. From there we head west to Sonoma Mountain for Les Lunes’ Chardonnay, farmed organically on ancient volcanic soil by Shaunt Oungoulian and Diego Roig, high elevation fruit with real acid and drive. Then it’s across the Atlantic to Domaine Frédéric Esmonin’s ‘Les Montvrières’ Pinot Noir, a Gevrey-Chambertin family estate that’s been farming the same ten acres for generations and selling fruit to names like Drouhin and Jadot before ever bottling their own. We close in South Africa with Cederberg’s Merlot-Shiraz, grown on the highest altitude vineyard in the Western Cape, where the Nieuwoudt family has worked the Cederberg Mountains for five generations. Four corners, one Detroit w**e tasting, all the reasons we love Wednesdays at The Royce!

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07/29/2026

🇭🇷 & 🇸🇮 This Wednesday, July 29th, we’re packing our bags for the Adriatic without ever leaving the tasting table. Our good pal Kat McCormack of Reserve W**e Co. is back in the house from 6 to 7:30pm, pouring a lineup that jumps between the sun-soaked coast of Croatia and the hillsides of Slovenia, and honestly, it might be the most refreshing Detroit w**e tasting we’ve built all summer. Come thirsty, come curious, and let Kat add a few new favorites to your summer rotation. ☀️

On the Croatian side, we’ve got Kutjevo Graševina, poured from a cellar that’s been in continuous use since 1232 (yes, really), all green apple and citrus and floral lift, alongside the Dingač Semi-Dry Red, a Plavac Mali grown on slopes so sun-drenched the locals call it “triple insolation,” sunlight, sea reflection, and rock reflection all working the vines at once. On the Slovenian side, Matic W**es brings two playful pours from the Štajerska hills, a Piccolo Piquette Rosé and Red, both made the old-world way from Blaufränkisch pomace, lightly sparkling, low intervention, and dangerously easy to keep pouring. Four w**es, two countries, and a Wednesday plan to get you through to the weekend! 🏖️

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07/24/2026

🌋🍇 Sicily doesn’t just make w**e, it survives to make it. Vines clawing into black volcanic ash on one side, salty sea breezes rolling in on the other, and centuries old grapes that only this island still knows how to love.

The Royce W**e School invites you to Vulcan’s Vineyard: A Sicilian W**e Adventure, a tasting journey through the island’s wild contrasts. We’re pouring ancient method sparkling made the old fashioned way, rare native reds that are finally having their moment, and a few boundary pushing bottles from w**emakers who like to color outside the lines. Lava soil meets low intervention. Tradition meets “let’s just try it and see.”

Guided by our W**e Buyer, Bobby Vance, this one’s for the curious, the adventurous, and anyone who thinks w**e class should feel a little like a field trip.

📅 Sunday, July 26 | 5-7pm
🎟️ Only 6 tickets left, don’t wait on this one
👉 Grab your spot through Eventbrite or at the link in our bio before they’re gone

Featured w**es from: Massimiliano Calabretta Ayunta Etna Artisan W**es castelluccimiano w**ery CARUSO & MININI **e Tenuta Tascante Tenuta Rapitalà

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07/22/2026

This Wednesday, we’re pouring our way down the Camino de Santiago. 🇪🇸 VinoVi & Co’s Núria Garrote-i-Esteve has been a friend of ours since we opened our doors as a Detroit w**e bar back in 2016, filling our shelves with small, family run Spanish, Catalunyan, and now French producers most folks have never tasted. Leading this week’s tasting is Sean Sutton, who was also a vital partner back in 2016, now Sales Lead for VinoVi, bringing that same warmth along with deep knowledge of these w**es and their w**emakers and a real gift for telling their stories. Four bottles, one pilgrim’s route, tracing the Atlantic coast of Galicia through Rioja and into León. Join us at the tasting table from 6 to 7:30pm for a Detroit w**e tasting that really takes you on a journey. ☀️

We’re starting with the Fento “Bico da Ran” Albariño, grown in Rías Baixas by Eulogio Pomares and Rebeca Montero, Eulogio the seventh generation w**emaker at his family’s Zárate estate, salty and mineral, built for the sea air it grows in. 🌊 Next, the Artuke, a chilled red from Rioja Alavesa’s de Miguel Blanco brothers, whose carbonic maceration makes it a w**e you’ll actually want served cold. 🍷 Then Fento’s Ollo de Sapo Mencía, grown in the granite soils of Ribeira Sacra and named for the frog’s eye shaped stones in its vineyards. 🐸 We’re closing in León with Pardevalles’ “Gamonal,” a rare Prieto Picudo aged in a 300 year old family cave in Valdevimbre, a village that sits right on the Camino itself. 🥾 Come thirsty for w**es you won’t find just anywhere in Detroit.

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07/14/2026

This Wednesday, our Staff Picks tasting with Bobby is keeping one eye on the World Cup ⚽. With France, Spain, and Argentina all fighting for a spot in the final, we’re pouring four w**es pulled straight from the countries still standing 🍷. Come find us at the tasting table from 6 to 7:30pm for one of Detroit’s favorite weekly w**e tastings, no reservation needed, just show up ready to drink well and talk soccer. If you’ve been looking for a Detroit w**e bar with a reason to linger on a Wednesday, this is it.

We’re opening with La Portera’s “Tardano” Macabeo from Aragón, Spain 🇪🇸, a bright white from a young w**ery whose founders work old vines by hand and let native yeasts do the talking. Next, Albert Bichot’s Mâcon-Villages, a Burgundy house six generations deep since 1350 🇫🇷, pouring something clean and quietly generous. Domaine des Geslets follows with their “La Contrie” Cabernet Franc, grown on old Loire gravel in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil 🇫🇷, soft yet structured. We close in Mendoza with RJ Viñedos’ “Reunión” Malbec 🇦🇷, a single vineyard w**e from founder Raul Joffre and his four daughters, rich yet crushable from the first sip.

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07/14/2026

⚽ WORLD CUP WEEK AT THE ROYCE ⚽

Grab your spot on our cozy mezzanine and watch it all with us. Four huge matches, one very good view.

🇫🇷🇪🇸 TUES 7/14 – 3PM – Semi-Final: France vs Spain
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷 WED 7/15 – 3PM – Semi-Final: England vs Argentina
🥉 SAT 7/18 – 5PM – Third Place Play-Off
🏆 SUN 7/19 – 3PM – FINAL

We’re opening early at 2:45pm on Tuesday and Wednesday (a little earlier than usual) so you can settle in before kickoff.

🍷Sip your way through the tournament with $12 World Cup w**e specials from participating countries, poured fresh for every match.

Come early, the mezzanine fills up fast. See you there!

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