Hi grape growers/winemakers/members. On May 1st we had a very successful wine tasting event featuring 6 of our bonded wineries. A special thanks again to Amy and Daniel for their leadership in putting on that event and to all our pro members that participated. Next year we hope to do something in conjunction with the new Local Vines facility whose planned opening is planned to be end of this year.

Our next general membership meeting will be on July 31 at 3PM at Daniel Howsepians home in Lafayette at 3345 Hermosa Way, off Reliez Valley Rd. The event will be social but will also feature a tasting of comp winners. As is usual at our events we ask members to bring tasty nibbles to share? We are asking our wine comp winers to give a presentation on their winning wine. The comps we would like to include are the Chronicle, Orange County Fair, and Winemaker Magazine. These three premier events will give us a good cross section of both pro and home wines. If your wine won an award, pro or home, at any of these events we would like to taste them so please let me know if you would like to have your fellow members taste your wine on July 31st? [please contact me dh1780@yahoo.com]

For our September general meeting we would like to have a member or some other knowledgable person do a presentation on food and wine pairing. If any of our illustrious members are foodies and into wine and would like to do such a presentation or if you know of someone who would like do so please contact me at the email address above? Looks like we are off to a good growing season. All for now.

David