Join our mailing list

SacWineRegion Save Mart Supermarkets

Affiliation: Now a wine industry consultant living and making wine in Sacramento, he's the former winemaker and cellar tender at UC Davis

Posts Most Recent

 Sacramento is an important hub of the California wine industry, with wineries located in the Delta, Galt, Lodi, Yolo, and up and down the Foothills. These Wineries produce some great and unusual wines.  Sooner or later, a percentage of people who enjoy...

Corks and screwcaps

   When there were about 1,000 wineries in California and 2,000 throughout the United States, the cork industry was able to meet the "closure" demands with high quality corks. Now with the number of wineries doubling or quadrupling, the cork...

Hi, everybody.  I'm Ernie Farinias and I'm going to blog about making wine. Why me? I've been making wine for nearly 40 years. When I started I was actually too young to legally drink it. For most of those...

Copyright © 2008 The Sacramento Bee