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KELSEYVILLE – On Saturday the Kelseyville Business Association and Clear Lake Performing Arts (CLPA) hosted the sixth annual Lake County Home Wine Maker’s Festival.
The event allowed home winemakers a forum to show off their hobby, and local wineries a place to give tastings of their products.
The festival is the largest annual fundraiser for CLPA, which promotes music education, community concerts and student scholarships in Lake County.
It was a well-attended event with people from all areas of Northern California including Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma, Yuba, Colusa and other counties.
Thanks were given to North Coast Sen. Pat Wiggins and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for making this Lake County’s first technically legal home winemaking festival. (For more about Wiggin's legislation, see http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4494/764/.)
The festival was open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. In addition to the offerings from home brewers, small wineries and some of the larger local wineries, there was food, live music, and arts and crafts available.
There was a silent auction and several raffles held throughout the event, along with ribbons awarded to the brewers. Local businesses were open including Focused On Wine, Rosa D’Oro, and Wildhurst tasting rooms.
Providing tastings were:
Laujor Vineyard
DiMario
Eastside Winery
Cesar Toxqui Cellars
Pretaris
D’Agostino
Nowhere Near Loreto
Mount St. Helena
Mother Mountain Wines
Muritage
Tulip Hill
Glory Hole
Honeycutt Vineyard
Steele Wines
F Street Ale Works
Shannon Ridge
Tres Amigos
Berenger
Paul Smith
Langtry/Guenoc
Cobb Mt. Brewing Co.
Ployez
Screeching Peacock
Bell Hill
Koenig Family Cellars
Dusinberre
If you would like to learn more about the Clear Lake Performing Arts, you can visit them online at www.clearlakeperformingarts.org or contact them at Clear Lake Performing Arts, P.O. Box 974, Lakeport, CA 95453.
Ross A. Christensen writes about food and wine for Lake County News.
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