Family Winemakers of California / Sacramento, CA

Our links to Family Winemakers of California's are the central reference points for information regarding the wine tastings and meetings it hosts throughout the year. The San Francisco event is the largest tasting of California wines in the world and showcases the state’s small, family-owned wineries.

Southern California Trade Tasting
Family Winemakers of California hosts its 6th Annual Southern California wine trade tasting
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 from 2-6PM
Location: Pasadena Convention Center
• This event is open to qualified trade only
• The trade registration form will be available on the Family Winemakers website by January 26.
• Wineries wishing to pour at this tasting must be members of Family Winemakers. For membership information, click on the Membership tab in the website.

San Francisco Consumer & Trade Tasting
Family Winemakers hosts its 16th Annual tasting in the Fall of 2006:
Sunday, August 20, 2006 open to the public and the trade from 12-4PM
Monday, August 21, 2006 open to the trade only from 1-6PM
Location: Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center
• The trade registration form will be posted on the website in late June. Tickets for the general public will go on sale in mid-July, 2006.
• Wineries wishing to pour at this tasting must be members of Family Winemakers; For membership information, click on the Membership tab in the website.

Family Winemakers of California, dominated by small producers and vineyards, has seen its membership strengthen each year as the association vigorously pursued direct-to-consumer wine sales relief in the courts and broadened its wine tastings. At the conclusion of its 2004 fiscal year Family Winemakers of California had a membership of 690. That represents an increase of 151% since 1997, as shown in the chart below.

The organizational core is the small, family-owned winery. Over 90% of the wineries produce less than 10,000 cases annually. A significant portion of the membership produce less than 5,000 cases annually. The industry definition of small producer typically is <50,000 cases per year. In these terms, Family Winemakers’ membership is generally made up of micro-size producers.

Family Winemakers draws its membership from across all the wine producing areas of the state. Our farthest north member is above Fort Bragg in Mendocino County. Our southern most members are in Temecula Valley in Riverside County. The largest concentration of members, as one would suspect, is from Napa and Sonoma Counties.

Address:
President
Paul Kronenberg
1400 K Street, #304
Sacramento, California
Phone: (916) 498-7500
Email: Contact through the website
Website: http://www.familywinemakers.org