New York State Home Wine Seminar

For those of you who did not go to the New York State Home Wine Seminar, you really missed a good one.  Yes, I know that I can say that truthfully every year, but I think that this year was special.  I will get the PDFs up on the website this month.  I hope.  Still we can post every document that our speakers have, but you can't ask questions unless you are there.  So make the effort for next year, it will easily be worth your while.  Just by asking your question, you can make a good presentation much better, and not only for just you.  We always entertain topics to be presented.  In general we try to come up with solid winemaking topics, but we don't know what you want to know or learn more about.  Case in point:  Inactive Yeasts.  We did not really know about this, but we did trust the source Sigrid Gertsen-Briand of Lallemand, so we went with it.  It was a great presentation.  Sigrid did hang around at lunch and did impromptu demonstrations of inactive yeast.  It was quite remarkable.  One attendee called it "pixie dust", with a good connotation.  Who knows what we are going to have next year, so plan now to attend.  Clear your calendar, and check the New York State Home Wine Committee website:  http://www.nys-homewine.info/SeminarNYSHWC.html