To view the competition brochure and entry form, click on the link above or to download the brochure, right click on the link above and save it to your pc
We have a number of judges from Missouri and Illinois Wineries and Wine Related Businesses.
This year, we have 23 awards in 13 categories with 2 new categories.
Winemaker of the Year-This award will be given to the individual whose top 6 scoring wines have the highest average score among all participants. You must enter at least 6 wines to qualify for this award.
Fruit/Grape Wine Kit-This award is for wines enteried using Island Mist, Orchard Breezin and similar type wine kits.
Click on the sponsor link to support their business.
The competition is coming together. The entries are starting to come in.
We have a great list of sponsors this year that has allowed us to give gift certificates to the Best of Show award, Winemaker of the Year award as well as first and second place to each of the other 11 wine categories.
Please visit each of our sponsors by clicking on their logo. They will appreciate it and you may find some great deals on their website also.
It is not too late to enter. Download the brochure on our website and get your wines and entry form in by February 13th.
We are pleased to announce that Bommarito Almond Estate Winery will be doing a presentation on their winemaking process. There will also be a question and answer session afterwards.
We will be raffling off a case of their outstanding sought after ports. For each $10 ticket, you will receive two tickets. We will have four raffles of 3 Bommarito Ports. The minimum purchase is $10.
The meeting will be January 12, 2012 starting at 7 PM in the Community Room at First State Community Bank, Warrenton, MO.
January is also member renewal month. This year we are pleased to provide each paid member something special.
Please bring a bottle of wine preferably port of your choosing to share.
Now comes news from the UK of a new bold design sure to challenge the traditions of the wine industry. A British designer is offering a grown-up step up from wine boxes. Created by Martin Myerscough of Greenbottle, the paper wine bottle is biodegradable and compostable. Myerscough is also the designer of the first paper milk bottles. His inspiration for both paper packaging designs came from trips to the dump. The designer questions how effective glass recycling actually is at a large scale, saying that the UK are “net importers of wine bottles and it’s not worth shipping the glass back so it ends up here as road aggregate.” Dimensioned to fit in a normal production line, the Greenbottle paper wine bottle features an inner foil lining, similar to wineboxes, to keep the product fresh and the container dry.
Made of a combination of cardboard and ultralight plastic, the packaging is one tenth the weight of a glass bottle and produces ten percent of the carbon footprint of glass. The plastic is designed to easily separate from the paper for separate recycling. Check out Martin's innovative company.
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