HIGHWAY 94 CLUB TO HOST WINETASTING EVENT SEPT. 19

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September 12, 2013 (Barrett Junction) The Highway 94 Club will showcase local wines at a special tasting event Thursday September 19 at the Barrett Junction Café, 1020 Barrett Lake Road in Dulzura. Everyone (at least 21 years old) is invited. Come and meet the vintners, learn a little about grape growing and wine making and taste some excellent wines. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. and will be held on the back patio of the café. Dinner is $9 per person and the wine tasting is complimentary with each purchased dinner.

Winemaking is taking hold in East County. Local wine grape growers and wine makers are starting small, boutique wineries on their properties. These vineyards are beginning to produce some very high quality wines. Over the past few years, several of these wines have won Gold, Silver and Bronze awards at the San Diego County Fair’s yearly Amateur Wine Competition.

The end goal for some of these producers is to become bonded so that they may sell their wine to the public. A few of the vintners in the East County have already gone through this process.

Wine grapes have a much lower impact on water consumption than many traditional crops and winemaking also helps boost the local economy, producing jobs for those who maintain vines, harvest grapes, and bottle the wines, for example. 


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