Central Coast Home Vintners Association

The Mission

The objectives of the Central Coast Home Vintners’ Association are to promote better understanding of the science of wine making, wine preparation, wine evaluation and wine appreciation by:

• Encouraging members to develop their knowledge and skills in growing grapes (viticulture) and making wine (oenology).

• Consulting and cooperating with professional vintners and growers.  

• Cooperating with other wine clubs to promote better evaluation of wine. 

• Bringing about closer cooperation between members, encouraging making better wine, and providing a medium to exchange ideas and experience relative to making and evaluating wine.    

• Encouraging the development and implementation of programs to educate the public at large in the art of making wine.  

We host several social events (barbeques and winemaker dinners) during the year, hold winemaking classes and offer winemaking and grape growing advice to club members. 

The club sponsors a grape buying co-op that allows home winemakers to purchase high quality grapes from Paso Robles, Edna Valley, Santa Maria Valley and Santa Ynez vineyards at reasonable prices. The co-op also has the ability to help crush your grapes and measure the brix, total acid and pH of the must. 

We own a crusher stemmer, 2 basket presses (#30 and #45), a filter and 2 stand corkers that members can use to process their grapes. The club also makes available new glass and good quality corks to members at a reasonable cost.

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