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…
The Club has a couple of special events in june to expand your winemaking horizon. On June 21 (Saturday), visit with Matt Cline, winemaker and owner of 3 Wine Company in Clarksburg’s Old Sugar Mill. Matt shares the history of California’s wine industry. Details here. This workshop has been cancelled. Learn about sherries at the…
Matt Cline, from Three Wine Company is offering a presentation and a wine tasting experience with him on Saturday, June 21. Over the course of his 43-year career, Matt was instrumental in the success of 3 wineries: Cline Cellars, Trinitas Cellars and now Three Wine Company. To Matt and thousands of years of winemakers before…
Leo Prada, the owner of Recoop Barrels, will be presenting on May 21st at our next SHW program meeting on how his method of recycling oak barrels is superior to other methods such as steaming power washing or dry ice blasting. He will also be able to answer those burning questions on barrel care and use…
