Whether you’re a long-time member of our club or just starting to think about wine, this is the place to find out about upcoming events and learn how to make your own wine.
Upcoming Events
Our Next General Meeting will be May 2
Our regular monthly meetings are held at the Home Wine, Beer and Cheese Making Shop, 22836 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. with a potluck dinner, and the action starts around 7:40.
Also coming up -
April 11th:Planning Party hosted byDeeDee Matthews & Bruce Kasson
RSVP, please, see Calendar of Events page for how.
What’s going on with the tastings being planned and the Saturday meetings coming up soon? If you have any fun ideas or just want to check out what’s going on with the club, show up where the best potluck and wines are served! For more information please email : president@cellarmastersLA.org
May 4 – The 2013 Derby Day Home Winery Tour
It’s our annual progressive party featuring great food, great people and, of course, great wine. Plus there’s the televised running of The Kentucky Derby and your chance to enter the race drawing for a cash prize!
Tickets are only $20 per person
Sign up on the Event Registration Page.
June 1 – The 2013 Wine & Cheese Tasting - Join our hosts, Stu and Joan Lenoff for an amazingly popular event, featuring truly elegant wines expertly paired with an abundance of amazing cheese. Tickets are only $50 per person. Sign up on the Event Registration Page.
Meeting Information -
First up, if you’re new to wine or home winemaking, don’t feel intimidated. We’re a pretty friendly bunch. Our regular club meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the Home Wine, Beer and Cheese Making Shop, 22836 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills. It’s a potluck and we usually have a food theme, so bring a dish to share and a bottle or two of wine, homemade or commercial.
We usually have a speaker and/or a tasting. Either way, if you’ve got some wine that isn’t tasting quite the way you think it should, feel free to bring some along and let our wine gurus help you figure out what’s going on with it.
Board meetings – oops, we mean Planning Parties – are a great way to get involved in making all our great events happen. The Board part may be a little misleading because the meetings are open to anyone interested in helping out. And the party part means that these meetings are not spelled B-O-R-E-D.
Membership Information -
For information on how to join the club or to pay your dues online, please go to our Cellarmasters Membership page.
Newsletter -
Our latest newsletter and some of our past ones can be downloaded on our Newsletter page.
Thanks for the good time at the WBC Shop!Exceptional home-made wines.. see you all the next time around, perhaps at Bizou.
Frederick & Heather
Frederick,
Don’t wait too long on Café Bizou. The tasting event in Carpinteria we mentioned is already sold-out and the wine and dine IS a great time and real bargain.
Looking forward to seeing you guys again very soon.
Cafe Bizou was a blast! Next up . . . Derby Day! May 5th.
Last night was my first time attending Cellar Masters. Thank you for putting it together. I look forward to future meetings, events, and wine making!
Thank you again.
Heather livezey
Heather,
Thanks for checking us out. It takes a lot of people to do what we do and we welcome your participation in any way. Hope you will join us again next month.
I have a couple of vineyards in the Santa Ynez Valley and have some grapes for sale this harvest.
email me on your suggestions
GREAT SITE AND AMAZING WINE CLUB!! Whoo hooo! Some of the nicest friends you could ever meet!
I’m new at winemaking and it was my first time in the “Beer, Wine, and Cheese” shop this afternoon. I’d love to make it to the next event and see what it’s all about, and get some advice about how my wine is turning out. I had no idea there was a winemaking community so close; see you guys soon!
Dear Blake,
Sorry about the delay in responding. We are coming up into that busy time of year. Grapes are growing, wine is being blended, bottled and we are prepping for this harvest. But we still have winemaking 101 coming up, a presentation on yeast and other stuff as we go forward towards our national judging in the fall.
Our next regular meeting is July 5th. Check back later in June for our newsletter which will have the schedule of events.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Mike Holland
Hi winemakers … I have 3 one ton and 6 1/2 ton variable capacity tanks for sale here in Woodland Hills … included are top, seal, air pump, valve … all used, but in good shape except seals … sell for 1/2 cost of new … phone # is 818-888-7465 … call or e-mail bruce@huntley.net and come over and see them …
I am selling 4 5-gal. glass jugs. If you are interested, please reply. Thank you.
Details, please. Where are you, how much are the carboys and how can you be contacted?
Does anyone know where I can find a good fruit wine recipe?
You can’t go wrong with Jack Keller’s website and blog http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/wineblognew.asp
There are “country wines” – fruit wines to you and me – in one issue a year in WineMaker magazine. You can always check their website and see if they post them after the print run.
There used to be a good recipe on this site from Stu. Can that still be found in the archives?
It may have gotten lost in the data transfer to the new site. I know I have a hard copy of it in the archive box. I’ll retrieve it and get it scanned and posted hopefully next week.
I remember seeing that the Amateur wine comp. entry form for this year should be up today. I checked under the tab but it seems the link is dead. Any idea when it will be up and running?
It is now live! Go and download your forms and you can pay either by debit or check. Look for the links to each option. Good Luck!
Cellarmasters Rocks!