2023 SWGGA MEMBERS ANNUAL BARBECUE & PICNIC Gray Pine Vineyards and Winery in Penn Valley Sunday, June 25 at 5 PM. $25/person. Join Us for Good Food, Good Wine and Good Friends! Support our Wine Raffle benefiting our College Scholarship…
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)…
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…
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
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…
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 &…
This is just a friendly reminder that if you have not already entered your wines for the 2023 wine competition, you have until 5 PM on Wednesday, May 26 to do so. Go to the SWGGA, website, login and go to the member Area page once there, click on the Register Wine button. We’re looking…
Folks: Our next meeting is this Thursday, April 20; doors of Ponderosa Building, Gate 2 will open at 6:30 PM for those who like to socialize with meeting starting by 7:15 PM. See ya’ all there. AL
