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Scramento Home Winemakers June Jubilee Roaring Sucess

Judging wine at the Sacramento Home Winemakers June Jubilee
Judging wine at the Sacramento Home Winemakers June Jubilee

The Sacramento Home Winemakers June Jubilee was a roaring success with 121 wines judged and over 100 members and their families attending.  They had 13 cellar rats (they are the ones that pour the wine for the judges) a couple of data gurus and twelve judges.

All this was held in Judy Pinegar’s barn in Loomis, CA.  With the weather at 100 degrees, thanks has to be given to BBQ chefs Joe McGilivray and Manual for their great barbeque skills. After the judges swirling, sniffing and tasting, 4+ hours and 24 flights later, the gold wines emerged and were lined up for the Best of Division rounds that included 14 reds.

When the best of show was completed, and the competition was stiff, the judges remarked that Sacrmento Home Winemakers  were some of the best that they have judges. Wines judged included lively whites, beautiful roses, unusual red blends, outstanding petite sirahs, creative fruits and desserts; a flight of 8 well-crafted tempranillos and fruit intense blackberry wines.

Chief Judge Mike Touchette, assisted by Jubilee Coordinator Judy Pinegar and Assistant Coordinator Shannon Shackelford, announced the winners.

Best of Show – Dave Hicks, 2012 Viognier (Judy Pinegar to the left in the picture)
Best of Show – Dave Hicks, 2012 Viognier (Judy Pinegar to the left in the picture)

Best of Show – Dave Hicks, 2012 Viognier (pictured above)

Best of White – Dave Hicks, 2012 Viognier

Best of Rose/Blush – Carl Sweet, 2012 Primitivo

Best of Red – Terry Piazza-Perham, George Smith and Roberta Sparkman, 2011 Petite Sirah

Best of Fruit/Exotic – Rex Johnston and Barbara Bentley, 2012 Wild Blackberry

Best of Dessert – Donna Bettencourt, 2009 Blackberry Port

A complete list of awards can be found at this link:  2013 Jubilee Awards.

Check out Jubilee photos on Sacramento Home Winemakers facebook page.  More Jubilee photos to be added to this web site soon.
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Sacramento Home Winemakers Club Are International Winners, 2013

Typical Sacramento Winemakers meeting. Photo credit: Sacramento Winemakers
Typical Sacramento Winemakers meeting. Photo credit: Sacramento Winemakers

 

Yes, the Sacramento Home Winemakers Club was the top amateur international winemaking club winner again this year!

Judy and I went to the 2013 WineMaker Magazine’s International Home Winemaking Conference  held in Monterey, California, May 17th and 18th to hear the results of the wine  judging. Judy is twice past president and has been on the Executive Board of the Sacramento Home Winemakers Club for many years.

It was an exciting time for the club, since they were the club winners last year and were hoping to be a winner again this year. It is such a stiff competition that some winemaker clubs were subsidizing their members by paying entry and shipping fees to their members. The Sacramento Home Winemakers Club did not do that for their members.

This was no small feat, since the judging was held from April 19-21, 2013, with a record total of 4,564 different wines at the Burlington Hilton in Burlington, Vermont.  This year’s competition was the largest in the 11-year history and is again the largest wine competition of its kind in the world. The 4,564 entries arrived from hobby winemakers throughout North America in all 50 American states and 8 Canadian provinces and as far away as Italy and Australia. It was the single largest and most diverse collection of hobby wines ever assembled under one roof.

Over the course of three days, experienced judging panels worked through 923 flights, examining each wine using the UC-Davis 20-point wine scale evaluating appearance, aroma, taste, aftertaste and overall impression. The wines were entered in 50 different categories and included an astonishing array of varietals and wine styles. Kit wines competed alongside fresh-grape entries in this blind tasting.

Entries were awarded gold, silver, bronze and best of show medals based on the average score given by the judging panel. The Grand Champion wine medal was the top overall scoring wine across all categories. The Club of the Year was given to the club whose members won the most medals and the Retailer of the Year and U-Vint of the Year awards were given to the winemaking supply stores whose customers outperformed other similar shops.

Finally the Winemaker of the Year award was given to the individual entrant who has the highest average score across their top 5 scoring wines in the competition.

Winemakers of the Year &
Best of Show Dessert Wine
Rex Johnston and Barbara Bentley

Front: Barbara Bentley, Rex Johnston - Photo credit: Sacramento Home Winemakers
Front: Barbara Bentley, Rex Johnston – Photo credit: Sacramento Home Winemakers

In all, SHW won 13 golds, 10 silvers and 12 bronzes for a total of 35 medals.

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