Please note:  Family members watching the webinar together only need to signup one member to attend this session.  This saves webinar connections for other members. This month, we will have a presentation by one of the founding members of Big Nose Winery. The Orange County Wine Society is very proud to introduce one of our […]

The Orange County Wine Society is immensely proud to welcome Jason Bushong, proprietor and winemaker of Bushong Vintage Company, as our Winery Webinar presenter this month. A veteran judge of the OC Fair Commercial Wine Competition and Featured Winery presenter at the OC Fair, Bushong Vintage Company has consistently been awarded Best of Class, Double Gold, […]

We will start the New Year with one of our favorite winemakers, Shauna Rosenblum. Her Rock Wall Wine Company, located in the San Francisco East Bay on the decommissioned Alameda Naval Air Base, produces great wines from grapes taken from the right place as a result of many long-term relationships with acclaimed vineyard owners. Shauna […]

Our OCWS Winery Webinar for February features Brett Keller from Mineral Wines. Combining his passion for minerals with that of wine, Mineral Wines was founded in 2009 by the Henkel and Keller families, who grow grapes at the Cherokee Creek Vineyard in Angels Camp. Brett has been making wine in Calaveras County since 2003 and […]

Our March Winery Webinar introduces a relatively new winery to California—Cannonball Wine Company which started in 2006. Although Cannonball is a newer entry, it was started by a dynamic team of wine industry veterans who were determined to rock the wine world. Their vision was to make the best California Cabernet under $20. Armed with […]

Russian River Vineyards winemaker, Giovanni “Gio” Balistreri, will be our featured speaker. He comes from four generations of farmers, and he would not have it any other way. Gio is a farmer, first and foremost. To produce great wine, Gio believes that you must first produce excellent fruit. And it is the essential character and […]

Jeff Runquist has a passion for red wines. His goal in winemaking is: “work very hard to produce balanced wines…wines that will age and become more complex with time, but wines that can also be enjoyed in their youth.” Jeff’s wines are characterized by a fruit forward nature in both the aroma and flavor that […]