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***Enter your wines for BEWBC Winefest 2018, Saturday August 4th! http://bewbc.org/winefest/

***New Seattle wine drop off location!

Date:               Saturday, August 4, 2018

Time:              Judging begins:  12:00 PM

Members social and potluck:  3:00 – 8:00 PM

Location:        Dennis and Page Campbell’s house - map

                  8007 Talbot Rd

                        Edmonds, WA  98026

Objective:       A unique opportunity to have your wines evaluated by industry professionals. Enjoy the festivities with good wine, good food, and great company. Prizes for best food dishes and best wine label. This is a family affair, so bring the kids.

Cost:              Attendance is free for club members and their guests.

$20/person for nonmembers

                        $5/bottle wine entry fee

Hello fellow winemakers,

Winefest 2018 is Saturday August 4th. We currently have about 50 wines entered. New this year, we are allowing wine entered into previous Winefest, even those that have won category awards. Sorry, but no previous Best in Show winners allowed. Please take a few minutes to enter wines into the competition via the following website: http://bewbc.org/winefest/.

We have a terrific potluck and wine tasting planned. As mentioned in Dennis Campbell’s host letter sent earlier this week, our club president Mike Doherty will be smoking a beef brisket. We’ll also have rib-eye steak and salmon. I’m also trying to arrange live music this year from one of our Boeing music clubs. They are willing to perform for food and wine, so please consider bringing an extra bottle to share.   

We’ve received some comments regarding wine drop-off locations. To encourage more entries and participation, I’m pleased to announce additional wine drop-off locations. Hopefully, this will make it more convenient for those living in Seattle or further south. The following are the drop off locations:

Drop Off Locations

Mike Doherty

no later than 8/3; 20209 12th Ave W, Lynnwood WA 98036 

or Seattle near Museum of Flight

425-409-1744 *Please txt or call to arrange a drop off date and time.

Alexey Smirnov

no later than 8/3; 15 170TH Pl SE, Bothell, WA 98012 

940-453-4929

*BCA Everett 425-294-3382

Dennis Campbell

no later than 11 am on 8/4; venue location; 8007 Talbot Rd, Edmonds, WA 98026 

425-210-7662

*West side of Talbot Rd. Look for wind sock, Driveway is next to 8001 Talbot Rd. 

Jon Barbour

no later than 8/3; 211 19th Pl, Kirkland, WA 98033 

206-250-8031

*Please txt or call to verify I am home.

Kathryn Chalfan

no later than 8/3; 5615 140th Place SE, Bellevue WA 98006 

425-503-6524

*Please txt or call to verify I am home. 

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I encourage all members, beginner and seasoned winemakers, to please help sustain this unique experience by entering your wines into this year’s competition. We are so fortunate to have this special opportunity to receive feedback on our wines from industry professionals. We have an outstanding diverse slate of judges for this year’s Winefest with a few new additions. Many of them will be staying for the potluck, so come and make them feel welcome.

Winefest 2018 Judges:

Ed Rybeck                                         Past president of the Seattle Wine Society

John Bell                                           Winemaker Willis Hall

Henry Smilowicz                              Founder of Array Cellars

Tom Ward                                         Wine sales consultant, member Seattle Wine Society

Regina Daigneault                           Certified sommelier and Wine Scholar Guild

Tanya Morning Star Darling           South Seattle College, Wine Academy Instructor

Steve Foisie                                      Longtime member of BEWBC and wine educator

Tracey LaPierre                                Owner and enologist for Seattle Wine Lab

Christopher Chan                            Advanced sommelier, founder Seattle Wine Awards

Don’t have any wines to enter? Please join us to taste and appreciate the wines made by the club.

Ever thought about making wine? Come see what is possible and discuss with club members how to get started. It’s a great opportunity to ask questions, learn, and share ideas on wine making.

For the potluck, we are providing main course meats and soft drinks for kids (and basics - plates, glasses, plastic ware).  We are asking you to bring side dishes and desserts to accompany the entrées. Try to follow this alphabetical spread by your last name to ensure we have enough of every course. 

            A thru J - Dessert

            J thru Z - Appetizers/Salads/Side dishes

If you would like to help out in making this year’s Winefest another outstanding event, please give me a call or drop me an email. The help is always welcome. This is an excellent opportunity to get involved in your club.

I look forward to seeing you and tasting your wines this summer!

Additional event details, wine registration, competition rules, and volunteer opportunities are available at the link below. Please RSVP by sending a text to my number below or via e-mail.

ENTER YOUR WINE TODAY!

Cheers,

Jon Barbour

BEWBC VP of Wine

206-250-8031

Jonbarbour.seattle@gmail.

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Hello BEWBC Members –
The Boeing Employees Wine and Beer Club would like to invite you to attend a club wine event – Pinot Noir! with a focus on Oregon Pinot Noir and Pinot Noir WINEMAKING – hosted by BEWBC & Brad Sherman (at his winery!).  The tasting will also include a commercial Pinot Noir from a source available to us this year.  

PLEASE RSVP - click on this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7VVNHHH
WHEN:         THURSDAY, June 21st, 7:00PM – 9:00PM
WHERE:       Michael Florentino Cellars 
                     (19501 144th Ave NE, Suite C 1200, Woodinville, WA 98072)

WHAT:

  • Pinot Noir is Oregon's greatest grape, and perhaps the best Pinot Noir outside of France. The focus will be on Oregon Pinot Noirs, including an overview of the various AVAs of the Willamette Valley.
  • The tasting and discussion will include factors affecting Pinot Noir wine/style, including growing region/area as illustrated by comparison with a sample from Burgundy (Pinot Noir's ancestral homeland)
  • Tasting will include a commercial Pinot Noir from a vineyard that is available to us to purchase from this year!!  See offering in recent email from BEWBC.  
  • Tasting will include a Chardonnay as well, since Oregon Chardonnay is now available to us this year from that same vineyard.  Like Pinot for red's, Chardonnay is Oregon's premier white grape.
  • Discussion will include Pinot Noir winemaking - some considerations that are unique to PN vs. other red varietals.  

$10/person fee
PLEASE RSVP BY JUNE 18:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7VVNHHH

For questions, contact Joe Sikora at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 
Thanks,
Joe & BEWBC

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Crusher Replacement

We’re acquiring a Destemmer Must Pump!

As you may know, there was a very difficult cab crush last fall, involving a 10pm power outage, rescued by Marty Weisman’s generator, finished at the stroke of midnight.  We call ours “Circuit Breaker Cab”.  We were unwilling to repeat this miserable experience, which was just the most traumatic event in a long history of jammed crushers, near-miss safety incidents, and cleanliness complaints. 

The Board has given the go-ahead to purchase a Zambelli Gamma 25 Destemmer Crusher https://www.winemakersdepot.com/Zambelli-Gamma-25.aspx .  Steve Foisie, John Overholt and Jan Goegan have each purchased this destemmer for their personal use.  It’s much safer.  It’s more than four times faster and significantly more efficient (fewer stems), and is much easier to clean. The hopper is only 34" off the ground so loading is easier and the grape must is pumped into primary fermenters. It does require 220 volt service.  Joe Mirowski is helping to get additional 220V bids for us to take to SRS for approval.

We will be conducting familiarization activities after we receive the new destemmer.  There will be some help needed, like construction of a parts board to store the hose and some couplers.

If you're interested and willing to get involved in helping with this transition, please let us know at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .  I’m pretty sure we know how to turn a work party into a wine celebration. 

To clear some space, offset part of the destemmer cost, and simplify our SRS lives……….

Equipment for Sale

Stainless Steel Crusher with yellow markings, including the three-box stand, $600

Blue Manual Crusher, disassembled, $100

Contact the club Treasurer, Kevin Neal, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Friday June 15th to purchase.

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Horse Heaven Hills Trail Ride

Our pre-event evening reception introduced prospective club members to several excellent club wines, and gave us a chance to become acquainted.  The tour bus took us through many miles of unbroken vistas of native grassland.  Then in irrigated wine country, we visited:  Columbia Crest, Water From Wine (a non-profit supporting clean water), Canoe Ridge, Alexandria Nicole Destiny Ridge, and Coyote Canyon, ending with a barbecue at Crow Butte Park.  The scale of the Horse Heaven Hills winemaking industry is truly stunning:  Columbia Crest has 22 acres of underground winemaking operations.  Horse Heaven Hills AVA produces 20% of all Washington grapes.  Automated harvesting technology with machine vision is coming into use. The vineyard owners are a community, helping one another.  Don and Linda Mercer, pioneers of the Horse Heaven Hills wine industry, shared their story:  When the Columbia River dams were in the planning phase, Don’s father suggested the three boys think about opportunities.  Potatoes and beans were at the top of the list, with 30,000 acres, and they also planted a few acres of grapes.  To their surprise, the world showed a lot of interest in the wine grapes, and none in the potatoes.  We all thoroughly enjoyed the entire event, which was flawlessly planned and executed by Laraine Volpe.