On April 7, 2019, LWGA held another very interesting and fun event at the Lafayette Library. This event was part of our continuing series of meetings as outlined on the LWGA calendar for the LWGA membership.
For this meeting, Members were asked to contribute wines of their making for a peer tasting. We had over 30 entries! Below are the final winners by category:
Other Reds; Three way tie!:
Pinot Noir; Non AVA Winner Meadowview Russian River 2015
AVA Winner Cheery Lamorinda 2016 AVA Winner Ward Lafayette 2014
Red Wines; Cab & Friends;
Cab AVA Winner Deer Hill Lafayette 2016
Syrah; AVA Winner Coletta Orinda 2014
Super T; AVA Winner Meadow View Moraga 2016
White Wines;
Chardonnay Non AVA Winner Ancient Lakes Clear Lake 2014
Chardonnay AVA Winner Meadowview Moraga 2017
Other Whites;
Viognier; Non AVA Winner Ancient Lakes Clear Lake 2014
There were very nice appetizers brought by the members and the wine tasting was a lot of fun and delicious! The consensus of those present was there was not a single bad entry, so the competition was very close indeed. This is a wonderful outcome and shows that the Lamorinda AVA wines are of high quality and can only improve! Our educational sessions with the LWGA meetings hope to aid everyone improve their wine growing and wine making efforts!
Thank you to all who contributed wines for this event!!
At our July 27 meeting, the winners of the White Wine category will have the pleasure of telling us how they sourced their grapes and how they made their wines so we can all have a shot of winning at our next wine tasting event . We will also be able to compare the AVA with non AVA.
The red wine winners will present at our September 29 meeting.
We, on the board, are very pleased to be able to provide these sessions and are very happy to see the level of interest in these topics!
We look forward to seeing everyone for our June 2, 2019 AVA celebration! There will be a special timely, informative viticulture session, about irrigation and canopy management.
