Please Note: Our next meeting is a  week earlier than normal. It is on Thursday, September 11, 2025 at Ponderosa hall beginning at 6:30 PM.

It’s great when you put your nose to a glass and come away with notes of berries or flowers. But what if the

smell is not so appealing. Is it part of the odiferous fragrance of the varietal or something worse? A fault?

Guy Lauterbach has a few examples of some faulted wines that we will pass around for everyone to examine.

In particular we will look at volatile acidity (VA) and oxidation, the two most common faults affecting home

winemakers. We will talk about wine faults and more importantly, how to avoid them. Remember. The sooner

you identify a problem with your wine the easier it is to correct.

In the second half of the program we’ll look at another common concern

among home winemakers: finding the appropriate level of acidity for an already

quite tasty wine. Adding acidity will change the wine. Will adding acidity

improve the wine? You know, if it ain’t broke. We’ll look at the same wine with

different levels of increased acidity. Does it help?