Happy Mother’s Day/Sunday Wine and Vineyard Folks!
It’s been a very nice spring, and vines in Lamorinda generally are starting out with more, and larger clusters. We don’t want to jinx things, but its safe to say we are off to a good start to the 2018 growing season!
Following are the results from the AVA Celebration Wine Tastings. Thanks to all the members who participated in the judging. Next year we are thinking to redo the wine judging at a separate meeting devoted just to that. And to make the judging easier for members, instead of rating each wine, all we will need to do is taste them all and then select your two favorite wines (in each category). This type of members choice rating format will be more fun and will let more members participate as well!
Now we can get to the fun and informative end-result of the evaluations:
The next meeting will be on Sunday, July 29, 3 – 6pm. At this meeting, the makers of winning whites will be pouring samples of their wine and will explain how it was made. This will be a fun and informative meeting, with lots of great white wines to sample!
And then at the following meeting, which will be on Sunday, September 30th, the winemakers of winning red wines will be pouring and explaining. This meeting should be even more interesting, because we will be able to taste and compare side by side more AVA and non AVA wines made from the same grape! One thing we will be focusing on is what unique characteristics are in AVA wines.
Next will be our annual Holiday party, which will be on Thursday, December 6th. Mark your calendars, start getting your party hat designed and dancing shoes shined, cuz this is going to be a fun night. We will also be sending out more information soon about the new plans for meetings to occur now every other month.
Here is a link to a slideshow from the AVA Celebration: https://lamorindawinegrowers.com/photos/?wppa-occur=1&wppa-slide&wppa-album=16
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