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New Club Officers
In compliance with the Club By-Laws, the new executive BEWBC Board was approved at the first club meeting of the year on Feb 27.  Please welcome new and continuing members, 
  • President - Mike Doherty
  • Vice President Beer - Mark Emily
  • Vice President Wine - Jon Barbour
  • Secretary - Elena Smirnova
  • Treasurer - Kevin Neal
Education
Steve Foisie announces:  
After 43 years, this will be the last year that I will be offering a fundamentals in wine making class.
The class is tentatively scheduled for late August, 2018. More details to follow
Please note that I will not be available this harvest so for the class to be successful, I will need several mentors to work with the students through the crush, press, and post fermentation analysis.
It been a fun run, but it's time to hang up the purple shoes.
Mentors
We have mentors!  On this website, in the Members section, find the drop down for mentors.  You can send a message by double clicking the mentor’s highlighted name, where you’ll be directed to Messages.  These club members have volunteered to help you with your winemaking questions, and there is likely at least one who lives near you.
Membership
Share the fun with BEWBC and earn a $35 gift card to a wine store of your choice!  Invite an eligible guest to any of our upcoming wine events so they can experience the benefits of membership.  You will be rewarded with a gift card for any new members brought on board.  How easy is that? 
Horse Heaven Hills Wine Tour and New Member Recruitment July 21-22:
Horse Heaven Hills Wine Growers Trail Drive and BBQ"  takes place on Saturday, July 21st.  Folks will meet growers and vintners at this all-day wine tasting event which culminates with a BBQ and music at a park.  This is an overnight event.  We will meet in Prosser Saturday late morning, with buses driving us to the various wineries, the BBQ, and then back to our hotel.   The objective is to promote membership in the club while enjoying an AVA experience in the heart of wine country.  There may be an incentive of some sort for attracting potential members.  
The cost of the Trail Drive to members is still being worked out.  The club is fortunate to have a corporate sponsor.  
Please save the date!  July 21-22.  More to follow….  

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Mike and Kristin Doherty and Marty Weisman put this event together at Brad’s Florentino Cellars.  Brad has been enormously hospitable to us.  Mike and Kristin and Marty did a great job and everyone seemed to have a lot of fun.  This is a very popular event!

 

Here are the brackets:

Bracket

And here are the entries:

 

Forbidden Fruit 2012 Cab

Lyle Picard

Forbidden Fruit 2016 Syrah

Lyle Picard

Forbidden Fruit 2014 Bordeaux

Lyle Picard

2016 Corvus Cab

Eric Mildes

2014 Cab Ciel du Cheval

Dennis and Page Campbell and Kathryn Chalfan

2014 Merlot Ciel du Cheval

Dennis and Page Campbell and Kathryn Chalfan

Pseudo Tuscan 2013 Yakima Valley

Dennis Koepke

C. Lee 2011 Cab Sauv

Bill Bronecke

2016 Cab Franc

George Montanero and Randy Neville

Doherty Cellars 2016 Tower Syrah

Mike Doherty

Neville Blend 2015 Merlot Syrah PV

Randy Neville and George Montanaro

Dancing Elk 2016 Corvus Cab

Marty Weisman

Villa Di Giorgio Red Table Wine

George Cooper

Pinot Noir 2016 Sikora

Joe Sikora

Gemelli Cellars 2015 Malbec (Gilbert)

Erik and Michael Cooper

 

 

Congratulations to Dennis Koepke for the top club wine, his Pseudo Tuscan 2013 Yakima Valley!

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March has come in like a Lion Red and will leave like Lambic. But, as usual, I digress. Let me give you 3.14159 reasons to attend the meeting of the Alerati on the day before St. Patrick's day.
  • BotFly (Beer on the Fly) - Somebody agreed to brew something and share.  So there! Come enjoy the experiment. And come with your own experimental ideas and be the next BotFly!
  • Irish Red - The illustrious Style Sherpa will be showcasing the luck o' th' Irish.  If you made your own luck bring that down to share as well! Or any Pi or St. Patrick style of beer. Or any beer, cider, mead or ...
  • Competition Entry - I, your glorious source of all things awesome and beer-y, will be giving a brief presentation on how to enter a beer competition.  World domination to follow! A few simple guidelines can make all the difference.
  • General kibbutzing - talking about brew, sharing brew, giving feedback, sharing tips and so on
As always, bring beer, bring food and bring it on.

Check out the Impaling Aler's website to see our calendar of events. See you at Lake Desire Clubhouse on March 16th, 2018 at 7:00pm!

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BEWBC Club Meeting  February 27th at the Aqua Club in Kenmore. The topic was “Wines of BEWBC Vineyard Sources”.  The consensus was this is a great topic for this time of the year, when we’re reviewing grape purchase options for the upcoming season.  Joe presented background information for each AVA, and the vineyards, as we sampled wines made from the fruit of those vineyards.  The wines were both commercial and club made. 
 
 
Membership

The club is now beginning the open period to order grapes for 2018.  We are excited for another great year of fermentation and beverage appreciation for all!  Please remember that your membership must be paid in full to participate in this year's grape order.  

You can renew your membership and access all of our features through our website by going to our registration page and renewing your membership.  It is easy, and you can take care of it all securely online in just a few clicks.  Don't miss out on this year's grapes by renewing today!

 
 
Horse Heaven Hills wine tour.  

"Horse Heaven Hills Wine Growers Trail Drive and BBQ"  takes place on Saturday, July 21st.  Folks will meet growers and vintners at this all-day wine tasting event which culminates with a BBQ and music at a park.  This is an overnight event.  We will meet in Prosser Saturday late morning, with buses driving us to the various wineries, the BBQ, and then back to our hotel.   The objective is to promote membership in the club while enjoying an AVA experience in the heart of wine country.  There may be incentive of some sort for attracting potential members.  

The cost of the Trail Drive to members is still being worked out.  The club is fortunate to have a corporate sponsor.  

Please save the date!  July 21-22.  More to follow….  

 
Grape ordering
 
Grape Ordering (open enrollment) is currently open for Corvus Vineyard, closes Friday March 9th.
Grape Ordering for the remaining Vineyards will open Sat March 10th and Close Sat March 31st.