Competitions

Placer County Wine and Grape Association is accepting entries through November 9 for their home winemaker competition. See this link for more details.

The Sonoma Harvest Fair and Garage Enologists of Sonoma County invite entries to the Fair’s 2025 Amateur Wine Competition. Entries close August 23. There’s a wine label contest, too Details here

The Amador County Fair has extended its deadline to June 23 for their home and wine and labels competition. See here for the details.

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…

The 2025 California State Fair home wine competition results are in! SHW members Thad and Heather Rodgers took home a Golden Bear for their 2017 Petite Sirah Port. Congratulations to all!

This competition invites SHW members to enter and pour their wines at this year’s event. The competition is in Napa on Saturday, July 12. Details including entry info can be found here.