It’s not too late to enter your wines into the Club’s Jubilee Wine Competition. Entries close this Wednesday, April 22. You can drop off your wines are various locations. Go to this link to enter and for the drop-off locations.
At the April 15 meeting, you can bring your wine entries for both the SHW Jubilee and Orange County Fair. Thad Rodgers will be in the Turn Verein’s back parking lot to receive your wines from 6:15 – 7:00. No need to lug your entries upstairs. We make it easy for your to enter your…
You entered one of your favorites into last year’s Jubilee. Can you enter it again in this year’s Jubilee? Yes you can! And why would you do that? Sometimes, the judges may think a wine is well-structured but could benefit from more time (might use the term “tight”) and gives the wine a Silver award….
So… you’re looking around your cellar and you see that you’ve got a little of a wine that you may have used for topping. Then there’s a couple of wines that left over from bottling, some maybe from previous vintages. You sample the wines and they still taste pretty darn good. Then you blend the…
We need more volunteers on Saturday, April 25th to work as Panel Assistants and in Data. If interested, email Stacey Winton, State Fair Home Wine Volunteer Coordinator at stacey.winton@comcast.net. Volunteers do not need to be SHW members.
While we can’t capture the results from all of the home / amateur wine competitions that we hear of, we try to note as many as we can because we are proud of SHW members’ competitive spirit! Results from the El Dorado County Fair Amateur Wine Competition are in. Gold awards were earned by members…
