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Home Wine Press Aug August–September 2012 Issue 22 Next RAHW Meeting Congratulations, State Fair Medalists The next RAHW meeting will be Saturday, September 8, 2012 Twenty-two members were awarded a total of 75 medals in at 12:00 noon, at the Nutcracker the 2012 New York State Fair Amateur Winemaking Compe- Restaurant, 2159 Empire Blvd., tition! Webster. Medals, including a Double Gold and four Golds, were awarded to Tom Feel free to bring a guest! Don’t Banach, Paul Carletta, Dick Catalfo, Terry Chrzan, Greg Cutt, Bruce forget to bring a wine glass. Dunn, Jim Emens, David Gerling, Tim Gregory, Tom Hatch, Larry Kil- If you are bringing homemade bury, Dan and Pat Lindsay, Betty Morley, Ken and Bridget Pearce, Kev- wine to share, please label the in Pfister, Dick Rizzo, Dan Smothergill, Ernie Sulouff, and Mindy and bottle with your name and the Ben Zoglin. type of wine. This year the Fair website lists which color medals each winner received All members are welcome to also at www.nysfair.org/competitions, but not the variety or fruit that won. attend the Board Meeting that will We have to wait for the actual presentation ceremony on August 26 to be held at the same location at find out. 11:00 am, an hour before the gen- eral meeting. All club members, especially the 22 who are receiving medals, are encouraged to attend the awards ceremony on Sunday, August 26, In this issue: 2012 at the State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, NY. It will be held in the Art and Home Center Theater at 12:00 noon. Prepared for harvest? ........... 2 Each medalist should have received one free Fair ticket in the mail; Great time at Hazlitt tickets normally cost $10 per adult. Children 12 and under are free. Red Cat Cellars tour .............. 3 For directions to the Fairgrounds or for more information about the New York State Fair, see www.nysfair.org. CrossWord Search puzzle ... 4 French pressing terms ......... 5 How to get old labels off of bottles ............................ 6 Medalists in Western NY Competition Italian juice order ................... 7 The Western New York Amateur Wine Competition was judged at Freedom Run Winery in Lockport, NY on Friday, August 3. The awards ceremony was held at the Niagara County Fair on Saturday, August 4 and more! and three members left with several awards. continued on next page www.rochesterwinemakers.org 1 Home Wine Press August–September 2012 Are you ready…for the new season? Places to get your juices and By David A. Gerling grapes: It's a good time to think about what wines you want to make this Fall Bright, The Winemaker's year. It's shaping up to be a great year. You should also see what Shoppe yeast and chemicals you are going to need. The more you are orga- (607) 292-3995 nized now it will help you come September. www.fallbright.com The following is a short list of things to do: Fulkerson's Winery 1. Decide which wines to make and how much of each (607) 243-7883 2. Order the juice and/or grapes as soon as possible www.fulkersonwinery.com See the box to the right for a list of suggested suppliers. Plan a Hamilton’s Gore Inc. carpool with fellow members to save gas when it comes time to (Sterling Vineyards) pick up your order. (800) 244-0206 3. Inspect all of your equipment, making sure it’s clean and in email Bill Davis at: working order [email protected] See the list of club equipment available for your use at our web- Mayer's Cider Mill site, www.rochesterwinemakers.org, under Members Only. (585) 671-1955 (Email [email protected] to get a Members www.mayerscidermill.com Only account if you don’t have one yet.) 4. Make a list of all the supplies you will need to make your Randall-Standish wine and order them now. (585) 394-6420 www.homewinemakingjuices.com A list of local and online companies that sell winemaking sup- plies can be found at www.rochesterwinemakers.org under Walker's Fruit Basket Equipment and Supplies. Beat the rush—go ahead and get corks (716) 679-1292 and bottles, too. www.walkersfruitbasket.com Western NY Competition continued from previous page Know your limit— Greg Cutt won Red ribbons (Silver) for his 2011 Traminette and his please drink responsibly. 2010 Baco, Chambourcin and Malbec blend. David Gerling won White ribbons (Bronze) for his 2010 Delaware and 2011 Cab Franc Rose, Red ribbons for his 2010 Diamond and 2010 Leon Millot, and Blue ribbons (Gold) for his 2010 Seyval and 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon. His Cabernet Sauvignon also won the Best About our newsletter of Show—Vinifera Category. Home Wine Press is published Tom Banach won a White ribbon for his 2011 Vignoles and Seyval bimonthly by Rochester Area blend, Red ribbons for his 2011 Traminette and 2010 Cab Franc, and Home Winemakers club of Roches- Blue ribbons for his 2009 Blueberry and 2010 Late Harvest Vignoles. ter, New York. The Blueberry also won Best of Show—Fruit Category and the Late To unsubscribe, change your email Harvest Vignoles won Best of Show—Hybrid Category. address, or submit questions or Prizes for Best of Show included 50 pounds of fruit. David has se- news, please email newsletter@ lected 50 pounds of Merlot and Tom 100 pounds of Cabernet Franc, rochesterwinemakers.org. which will be picked up this fall at Freedom Run. © 2012 RAHW All rights reserved. www.rochesterwinemakers.org 2 Home Wine Press August–September 2012 Article by Hank Kingston On Saturday, June 16th, the Rochester Area Home Winemaker’s Photos by Bruce Dunn club was given a rare opportunity to tour the old Widmer Winery facility in Naples, New York. Twenty-two members and four guests attended. The group was greeted by Mr. Tim Benedict, VP of Winemaking for Hazlitt 1852, who gave a warm welcome to the group, a brief history of Hazlitt, and said the plant tour would be about an hour long. The actual plant tour went through the original Widmer winery building dating back to the 1880s, then into other buildings of the 1920s and 1930s, into post-WWII buildings, and onto the newer bottling facility. The group saw wooden winery barrels holding up to 12,600 gallons that were constructed in Germany, disassembled, Tim Benedict, VP of Winemaking at Hazlitt transported to Naples, and then installed in the Widmer plant in 1852 and tour guide for the day 1920. There were other buildings with blue steel glass-lined tanks manu- factured in the 1940s by Pfaudler Manufacturing of Rochester, NY. The group was shown the extensive piping network which allows any two storage tanks to be connected throughout the entire com- plex. The piping network has various terminal connection points for truck deliveries and shipments. Tim Benedict stated that this facility has a total storage capacity of 3,800,000 (that’s 3.8 million) gallons of wine in various stages of production. Admiring giant vintage barrels For a great video from Hazlitt 1852 showing their first bottling line of Red Cat ever, see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPYArh1DlTw&feature=related During the tour, group members were shown many wall displays of the earlier Widmer winery and shown an area of winemaking arti- facts of the prior period. Within the newer bottling facility, the group was shown the new automated machines recently purchased to accommodate high volume production. These new machines are designed to process both corked and screw cap bottles. With Red Cat wine being Hazlitt’s prime product at the Naples facility, Hazlitt Just a few of their steel storage tanks will ship 200,000 cases wine to fourteen different states in the Unit- ed States in the next year. The group tour ended a little short of two hours with a special tast- ing of six of Hazlitt’s wines, as Tim Benedict provided the back- ground of these wines. Lastly, the tour group visited the recently opened Hazlitt retail shop at the site, where members purchased bot- tles of wine and other related wine items for their enjoyment. That Saturday was a beautiful day to be on a tour in the Finger Lakes area. Several club members stated that the Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars plant tour was the best tour they had ever been part of. The Tim Benedict explains one of the six Rochester Area Home Winemaker’s club is very appreciative of the wines our club members tasted time that Tim Benedict and the Hazlitt 1852 staff gave to this event! www.rochesterwinemakers.org 3 Home Wine Press August–September 2012 Play it easy or play it hard! Choose your level of difficulty: For easiest solving, see the word list on page 7 and find those words in this puzzle. For more challenging play, use the clues on this page to suggest words that may be found in the puzzle and search for those words. Use the list on page 7 only if you get stuck. W C A Z E N O V I A M W K E U K A S I B T A G U Y A C G I B A E N D E E D M R T R O P S D N O M M A H N R M M L X D A C O N E S U S R I No. 4 E N I W E C I Z P G V T K Z J F J Finger Lakes C Z N A E R M W Y E L R M E V N N Wine Region A O T T S G W W I P P A P T L I Z C U V K T G N I L S E I R N M T Q (Answers on page 9) A U G I A D N A N A C L E O P N M H P L N T C A Y R E N I W M R A F T Z Z S E T A M I L C L O O C T J I I Z G S K A N E A T E L E S S L S K P L L E N R O C S E L P A N K A I H E M L O C K L A U K L H O N S O N N E N B E R G E N E V A K M C G T O V R D W H I T E D E E R U Y H A Z L I T T S K N U O B Y D S CrossWord Search clues: 1.
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