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June 2009 |
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Member Profile
Dominic Foppoli
General Manager/ Co-Owner Foppoli Wines Vineyard and Winery Specialist, W Real Estate
Dominic Foppoli has been involved in wine his entire life. He is the most recent in a long line of Foppoli's in the wine industry - with an American history dating back to centuries of winemaking in Europe then to his great grandfather Giuseppe's winemaking during prohibition.
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Cruise 2010
We have set the date for the 2nd Pinot Passions cruise on Oceania Cruise lines for June 17th through June 27th, 2010. The Cruise will tour the French and Italian Rivera. If you are interested in becoming a host winery or grower please contact Lee Hodo at 707-521-2534
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Pebble Beach
Ten wineries and representatives from the Sonoma Winegrape Commission were on tap at the second annual Pebble Beach Food and Wine event over the weekend of April 16th through the 19th. We joined sommeliers from all over the US and the most notable chefs in the culinary world at three major tastings to share our wines with thousands of serious wine enthusiasts. Dan Goldfield presented wines at the Pinot Noir seminar, Merry Edwards at the Sauvignon Blanc Seminar and Davis Family Vineyards, Picket Fence, Thomas George Estates and La Crema presented at the “Chardonnay’s of the Russian River Valley” seminar.
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Rodney Strong Vineyards
announced their 19th annual summer concert series schedule.
The lineup for this year includes; Hall & Oates, The Rippingtons, Craig Chaquico, Susan Tedeschi and more great acts. Contact:
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Appellation America's Best of Appellation evaluation
Russian River Valley AVA
APPELLATION AMERICA is a major web based wine publication (100,000 visitors per month) covering the North American wine industry. In 2008 they launched their Best-of-Appellation(tm) program, an evaluation - not a competition - focused on defining the unique regional characteristics of the region's vineyards and how they are expressed in a finished wine. Russian River Valley AVA is the perennial third most viewed appellation in their index of the 300+ AVA in the United States. So the time for a Russian River Valley spotlight is now.
If a significant number of wines are submitted there is significant editorial exposure in this intra-AVA evaluation. Generally this requires 60 wine submissions to get a proper perspective of the appellation traits, enabling a set of feature articles beyond the evaluation story itself. All release as a package presented on the site's portal page for considerable time. The evaluation program is headed by Clark Smith, a nationally respected enologist, who brings in trained enological tasting panels that objectively utilize processes to define regional character. Wineries can get more information of the wine submission process at http://wine.appellationamerica.com/about-the-best-of-appellation.aspx
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Member Seminar
Our first member seminar for 2009 took place on April 23rd. Presentations by Wilbur Ellis on the apple moth, Dan Gudgel from the US Weather Service outlined reports and forecast available through their website and Solar Works shared the advantages of installing commercial solar systems. About 50 members enjoyed these presentations and great Dutton Ranch style barbeque and hospitality! Thank you to the Dutton family for hosting the event.
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Grape to Glass
August 14-16
The 14th Annual Grape to Glass is coming up quickly.
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NEW FEATURE!
We are now offering a new feature that will help you help us promote our events! By clicking on the link below, you will be able to pick up a predesigned ad that can be placed directly into the body of your e-mail newsletters. After clicking on the link you will copy a long code into your HTML and voila!.... You can now help us by forwarding our event news to your friends, family and customers.
Click here to download information to use in sending an eblast or e-newsletter out.
It is not too late to still get involved in this year's event - there are many opportunities for wineries to get involved as well as growers - volunteers are still needed for all Grape to Glass activities. Please contact Judy at 523-3728 or the RRVW office for more information and to volunteer.
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RRVW Equipment Auction
Russian River Valley Winegrowers has rescheduled our Farm & Winery Equipment Auction for Saturday, July 18th, 2009 at SRJC Shone Farm. This is a great time to get rid of old equipment or get a great deal on something new. If you or someone you know is interested in consigning equipment, please contact Jennifer Gavriloff/Lee Hodo at (707) 521-2534 or email info@rrvw.org.
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