Bring your wine samples to Wednesay’s meeting if you would like to test for free SO2 and / or malic acid. We have test strips on hand for these analyses. Each test per wine is $5 apiece. The Club’s Sentia wine analyzer also tests for acetic acid, residual sugar, and Total Acidity. Since the Sentia’s…
SHW’s June 18 meeting’s guest evaluator is winemaking Chik Brenneman. Chik offers his encouraging assessment on Club members’ wines he’ll be evaluating. Chik is the winemaker and co-owner of Baker Family Wines in West Sacramento, and former Winemaker at UC Davis. If you would like your 2024 red non-Bordeaux wine evaluated by Chik: What’s a…
Once again, Sacramento Home Winemakers will be staffing the Home Winemaking Booth at the California State Fair. This year’s fair dates are July 11 – July 27. As a show of our appreciation, everyone who volunteers (and shows up) for a shift will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win two (2)…
At SHW’s May 2025 meeting, guest speaker Leo Prada with Recoop Barrels shared that he uses a 3-litre Wine Bag-in-Box kit to keep smaller bulk quantities of wine on the fridge for topping off. See image below. Additionally, Leo uses a companion stand when filling the pouch (purchased separately).
Chik Brenneman is the June 18 meeting’s guest evaluator. Chik offers his insight after tasting your wines on the wine’s next steps. Chik is the winemaker and co-owner of Baker Family Wines in West Sacramento, and former Winemaker at UC Davis. If you would like your 2024 red non-Bordeaux wine evaluated: What’s a red non-Bordeaux…
Amorim Cork is the largest producer of natural wine corks in the world. Are you interested in touring their state-of-the-art Napa facility end of July to see and learn about cork production? This facility performs QC, printing, moisturizing, and coating of the punched cork for their customers. Amorim is the first to provide a natural…
