At SHW’s May 2025 meeting, guest speaker Leo Prada with Recoop Barrels shared that he uses a 3-litre Wine Bag-in-Box kit to keep smaller bulk quantities of wine on the fridge for topping off. See image below. Additionally, Leo uses a companion stand when filling the pouch (purchased separately).
Aoproximatlely 3 tons of barbera and 2 tons of syrah available. Vineyard is in Placer County’s Sierra Foothills AVA at 1400-1600′ elevation. Vines are 24 years old, farmed organically in decomposed granite/loamy soil and trellised cordon style vertical shoot position. $1 lb. / $2,000 ton Picked. No minimum. No deatemmer crusher available. ETA: late September…
Chik Brenneman is the June 18 meeting’s guest evaluator. Chik offers his insight after tasting your wines on the wine’s next steps. Chik is the winemaker and co-owner of Baker Family Wines in West Sacramento, and former Winemaker at UC Davis. If you would like your 2024 red non-Bordeaux wine evaluated: What’s a red non-Bordeaux…
Shake Ridge Ranch & Vineyards is situated in the Sierra Foothills, five miles east of Sutter Creek. Since 2005, they have been the source of fruit to 40 different boutique wineries, including Turley, Tablas Creek, Tribute to Grace, Bedrock among many others, providing excellent quality grapes with character, color and concentration. (A full description of…
This year’s SHW Jubilee Wine Competition was on Saturday, May 31. With the assistance almost 30 Club volunteers and four panels of judges, 115 wines were evaluated in 19 classifications. The Best of Show award was earned by Byron Froman’s 2024 Albarino! The competition also awarded four division honors: Best of Division White Wine for…
Jenny and Marcus Meadows-Smith of Great Bear Vineyards in Davis write: It’s that time of year again! It is so beautiful in the vineyard and the fruit has set. Please let us know if you would like to buy grapes from us this year. We harvest the grapes at night (11pm-5am), so you will be able…
