Free to a Good Home I have the following wines available to anyone for the asking for blending or bottling. I need to purge tanks for the new year, and have bottled all that I need. Please contact me to taste what is available, and we can arrange getting it to you. Dave Elliott, (916)…

Competition Awards Meeting Thursday, May 18th
You submitted the wines. Jim and Kate collected them. Six judges tasted them. And Thursday we get the results. We will have all the wines entered in the competition open for tasting. We will feature a tasting of the Gold Medal winning wines including conversations with the winemakers and we will salute the SWGGA Winemaker…

May 2023 Trellis Wire
There is quite a bit of Club news to report. We have a picnic update. News about the Scholarship. A membership decision and, oh ya, we did the wine competition. So let’s get started. Click here to see the newsletter

Wine Competition Update
As you may know, we held the wine competition last Thursday. A total of six judges tasted and rated 26 wines. That was the smallest amount of wines in many years, less than half of the 10-year historic average. Last year’s frost no doubt had something to do with it. We are still processing the…

±±Vineyard Information Followup
b At our February meeting Curtis Peterson and Gerard Van Steyn presented an excellent program on the vineyard practices. As a supplement to that meeting, Gerard has made available notes and links to many of the issues that were discussed. A PDF file with this information is available by clicking the link below. Gerard &…