Happy New Year! Sacramento Home Winemakers is accepting membership applications for 2025. Annual membership dues remain at $60 for general memberships (up to 2 persons at same address) and $10 for higher education student memberships. Whether you aspire to start making wine or grow your own grapes, or wish to refine your enology and viticulture…
Planning is underway for next year’s monthly meetings. An essential piece of the meetings is hospitality – you know, the cheese and crackers snacks, water pitchers, and such on the tables. We’re looking for volunteers to help with meeting hospitality. If you have a tight schedule, helping with hospitality is one of the “doesn’t take…
At the December 11, 2024 club holiday party, members we’re honored for their accomplishments and contributions. Byron Froman received the Bob Beck Memorial Educator of the Year award. Tony Devine received the Stu Shafer Memorial Most Improved Winemaker award. Sip Happens, team of winemakers comprised of Amanda Westerman, Patrick McGillivray, and Matt Gallagher, was awarded…
If you paid your 2024 membership dues by March 1st of 2024, you are receiving a year’s subscription to WineMaker magazine which ends with the April-May 2025 issue. WineMaker magazine’s December 5 email entitled “An Update to your WineMaker Subscription” outlines changes on accessing the magazine’s contents. The print version will cease immediately. Instead, subscribers…
Please note: Updated Lyza Drop/Off Instructions SHW is partnering with Folsom Lake College’s (FLC) Viticulture and Enology program to expand vineyard and wine making knowledge for both students and Club members. FLC offers free wine analysis to industry partners and local wineries and extends that free service to SHW members. The analysis is performed with…
A message from President Marco Sguazzin Recently, we have had an influx of email phishing and scamming attempts targeting Sacramento Home Winemakers members. Currently, there are many different phishing schemes going around asking members to make financial transactions, purchases on behalf of the sender, and even to make changes to the website. These emails are…
