Meetings & Events

Alameda County Fair invites amateur winemakers to enter their 2021 Homemade Wine competition. Entries are due April 30, 2021. See here for details.

Do you find yourself confusingly scanning the columns on the yeast charts trying to decide which yeast to get? No worries! Your upcoming harvest just got easier. At the Club’s April 21 meeting, Matt DiVisconte, manager of Lodi Wine Labs guides you through the wine yeast selection process and explains the impact of different yeast…

Home winemakers are eligible to compete in the Orange County Fair Home Wine Competition. $15 per entry. Entries are due by May 20, 2021 and judging takes place in mid-June.

The WineMaker International Amateur Wine Competition (WineMaker magazine) is accepting entries through May 11, 2021. For more info for entering your wines, meads or ciders, go to WineMaker magazine’s website.

In case you missed last night’s meeting, video +audio or audio-only recordings of the meeting with Jonathan Pack can be found on the Speakers Resources page. Thanks to all for your questions.

Check out the innovations SHW members shared at the October 21, 2020 meeting.  Click here for the video – audio recording.  You can also find this recording on the SHW website, www.sachomewine.com in the Members Resource / Speaker Resources tab.

Announcement from Sacramento Home Winemakers Vice President Fayne Boyd-Katz: Ciao everyone! For the October 21, 2020 program we will be presenting an old time club favorite, “Gadgets & Innovations”, but with a bit of a twist. With your help, we’d like interested members to record a short video or a photo montage showcasing a favorite…

Do you wonder what happens when two science nerds get together to make wine? You got it!  They turn their home winery into a “lab!’  Winemakers Kathleen Swanson and Michael MacWilliams have invited us into their urban garage winery where they make award-winning wines (e.g. Best of Show White Wine at the California State Fair…

Scott Harvey Wines owner and winemaker Scott Harvey has shared the video of SHW’s July 15, 2020 meeting:  Adjusting pH in Wine.  The beginning of the meeting didn’t get recorded but the remaining hour did. In the video, Scott along with the winery’s assistant winemaker Mollie Haycock answer Club questions as they bench trial SHW…

For those of you who participated in SHW’s July 15 webinar meeting featuring winemakers Scott Harvey and Mollie Haycock of Scott Harvey Wines, you’ll remember Scott referring to software that’s made available to SHW. Located on the SHW website page Speaker Resources, this “software” is an interactive Excel workbook loaded with formulas to help you…