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Don’t guess! Get your wines tested by the Club using the Sentia wine analyzer. SHW offers wine analyses of your wines for pH, titratable acidity (TA), free SO2 , malic acid (MA), and glucose-fructose (residual sugar).

WineMaker Magazine is excited to again offer you as a member of the Sacramento Home Winemakers club a special 50% savings on a WineMaker+ online subscription membership. WineMaker+ members get full annual online access to upcoming new digital WineMaker issues published every other month plus the back issue library dating back over 25 years packed with…

Ken and Lean Stafford, home winemakers and viticulturists are offering an “adopt-a-rpw” opportunity for the home winemaker. Read the details here.

Winemakers can drop off their wine samples for analysis at Folsom Lake College’s El Dorado Center in Placerville. Due to limited staffing, drop-off procedures have been updated (see this link). The major change is to contact instructor Clare Kessler to ensure that she can receive your samples directly.

The Club’s seasoned mentors are here to assist you! Whenever you need help on the next steps or something is smelling funky or you just want to bounce off some ideas, these are the volunteers who can help you. Club mentors specialize in several areas: See the mentor list here. The Club Mentor list is…

Folsom Lake College’s Viticulture and Enology program is offering these classes for the fall 2025 semester: VITI 305: Wines of the World: An 8-week online course that will cover the wines, regions, and styles of 8 major winemaking countries of the world. This course offers optional in-person tasting on Friday nights. VITI 303: Viticulture: Harvest…