Meetings and Events

Sacramento Home Winemakers has been invited to pour members’ wines at UC Davis’ 13th annual TASTE fundraising event! This popular event supports the Robert Mondavi Institute and showcases excellent wines made by SHW members including fruit and fortified wines. If you would like to donate a couple bottles of your wine to represent SHW. we will be…

September 16, 2026 SHW Monthly Meeting    By Donna Bettencourt, VP We are pleased to announce our September 16, 2026, meeting topic and presenter: “Finishing Touches to Enhance Your Wine” Tina Valenzuela of Laffort USA will be presenting to us on the all important, but many times overlooked steps, to finish our wine to achieve…

Join your fellow SHW members for a fun and educational night with our guest speaker, Scott Harvey of Amador’s Scott Harvey Wines. We will taste several German varietal white and red wines, concluding with Scott’s delicious ice wine, 2024 Angel Eis Dessert Riesling. For more information on the German wine regions, check out this article: https://share.google/UfFORZh5ibncXd6rS Meeting starts upstairs at…

Join your fellow SHW members for a fun and educational night with our guest speaker, Scott Harvey of Amador’s Scott Harvey Wines. As a high school exchange student in Germany’s Rhineland-Pfalz region, Scott discovered his passion for winemaking.  He returned to Germany later to study the craft and train in European winemaking traditions. He will…

Get ready! Our annual beginning winemaking course is just approaching quickly! With just over two weeks to go, now is the time to sign up! Whether you are an aspiring wine maker or have made a vintage or two, this two-part workshop is designed for you. The parts: This workshop is open to everyone who…