Hello fellow LWGA members. The AVA Celebration is right around the corner: this Sunday! Now we need your wines for the first members choice blind wine rating event. We encourage everyone to enter at least one wine. You will get blind feedback from members, which may or may not be accurate, but it certainly will be interesting.
As an added incentive, we are excited to announce that Amy Glynn, the first Lamorinda poet laureate and wine bard will be tasting wines and joining our celebration. Amy will be impressed by the quality of Lamorinda wines and could help to build the reputation of the Lamorinda AVA by her future articles and community involvement.
All wines entered will be brown bagged and rated by members who wish to participate in the judging. Who knows how the members judging will turn out, but one thing is certain, it will be fun and informative – and your own private “judging” notes will be given to each submitter at a later meeting. Plus, at future meetings we will get to taste the winning wines and hear how they were made!
Wine Rating Logistics:
All wine entries need to be dropped off by this Friday, April 27th, so we have time in advance of the wine evaluation event to get everything set for the blind tasting. Please submit 2 bottles of wine for each entry, as this will provide enough wine for the evaluation and the remainder will be made available for other members and the general public to taste during the AVA Celebration.
Please drop you wines off at Bill Scanlin’s house, 6 Lois Lane, Lafayette CA, along with a check made out to LWGA for $5 per entry to cover costs. If someone is not home in the Scanlin’s house when you drop by, there will be an ice chest by the front door wherein you can leave your wine and the entry fee.
Important: Each bottle of wine needs to be labeled with the following:
- Wine/Winemaker name
- Wine Type and Varietals if a Blend: ie Cabernet Sauvignon 90%, Cab Franc 10%
- Year of Vintage
- Source of Grapes: ie: 100% AVA sourced, Orinda or Non-AVA Napa, Mt. Veeder
Event Details
- When: 4:30 to 5:30pm. Sunday April 29, Lafayette Community Library
To signup to be a wine judge/evaluator, please email gerardvs1@gmail.com or call Gerard at 707-758-7441. If you have any questions, or wish to volunteer to help out, please email Gerard at the email above or Daniel Howsepian at5powderhounds@gmail.com. If you want to coordinate your wine drop off with Bill, his email is bscanlin@gmail.com.
We are looking forward to a fun wine tasting event! If it works out as hoped, this could the first annual!
LWGA Board
