Winemakers! Grapegrowers!

Please come to a high-participation roundtable on Monday, August 19, 2024, at 6pm, at the world-famous Buckeye Vineyard, to hear yourself speak and learn all about grape growing and harvesting!

At least one of the following is true:

1. We'll cover issues such as: harvest parameters; how to interrelate with your grower (hint: never just 'take their grapes'); diseases-identification and prevention; nutrition; irrigation; neighbors' overspray; ventilation; leaf pulling; harvest timing; crush timing; netting; scarecrowing; snaking; owling; bird shot gunning; spotting 'grape winemaking issues,' and many more!
2. You will teach us what you know! 
3. You will ask the questions that concern you!
4. Four of our well-known SWWA winemakers are actually aliens sent to Earth to discover how we can make such good wine when we cannot even balance the federal budget, agree on which way the toilet paper roll should face, or prevent socks from vanishing out of the washing machine. Your job is to correctly identify the four winemakers and their giveaway alien traits. (As we all know, no grapegrower has ever been an alien, except Robert Mondavi was a suspected one.)

Please RSVP using this invite.  Maximum seating is 30. Chili will be provided by Brian Tansy. Please bring a salad, dessert, or acceptable additives/accoutrements to Brian's chili, AND a chili wine (your choice if it's made from grapes or peppers).  Let us know right away if you have dietary restrictions we can do our best to accommodate.

IMPORTANT: If you live above the Mason-Dixon Line (i.e., that all-too-tangible boundary between 'those north of the interminable Woodland traffic snafu' and 'rest of world'), then consider taking vacation that day and shooting through the wormhole by 9:30am before it builds to galaxy-halting level, and then play all day in the metroplex of Battle Ground, Ridgefield, and Vancouver. I will give you a modern grape tour with free wine, and I heard that Richard will pour a free glass of wine to any such refugee who arrives his shop by 2pm that day AND can accurately recite the Declaration of Arbroath from memory.

IMPORTANT: There will be a door prize to a lucky attendee!  It is GUARANTEED that you will have a chance to win something nice, and to eat something nice, and to hear something nice. So come on out!

Your Education Committee: Brian, Greg, Steve, Kenton

And Your President: Richard

And Your Alien Winemakers, yet to be named

E-mail for comments, questions, and requests.

p.s., This announcement was written by Kenton.  Don’t blame the rest of us.