This year’s competition will be conducted on June 4 and 5. This is one of our largest volunteer events. Volunteers have a lot of fun working with our members and at the end of the day, they also have the opportunity to take multiple partially full bottles of wine home (for their volunteer effort). The […]

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The 46th OC Fair Commercial Wine Competition will be held June 4-5th at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Mesa. The Orange County Wine Society and the OC Fair and Event Center sponsor the Competition which judges wines made only from grapes grown in California. There are no entry fees and the wines are judged by professional […]

The Orange County Wine Society, in conjunction with the OC Fair,  has sponsored the OC Fair Home Wine Competition since 1976. This competition is open to all amateur home winemakers in California. It is one of the largest amateur home wine competitions in the USA. The judging is double blind and the scoring is based on a modified […]

The OC Fair Commercial Wine Competition is one of the largest single events that the OCWS coordinates and runs each year.  With an average of upwards of 2,500 wines being judged in any given year by a prestigious panel of 90 judges of the caliber of such well known winemakers as Steve Lohr, Carol Shelton, […]