Seminars
A list of all Winefest Seminars for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 17-19, 2010
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FR1 – SEMINAR: Re-setting Your Taste Buds: How the Components of Food and Wine Interact with Enologist Steve Menke
Friday, September 17
10:00am–12noon
Learn how food and wine elements like acidity, fruitiness, sweetness, astringency, bitterness, and dominant flavors and spices can either match or fight each other. You will learn tasting methodology that will help you match foods and wines.
Presenter: Dr. Stephen Menke
Location: Wine Country Inn
Cost: $49
FR2 – SEMINAR: Same grapes different wine!
Friday, September 17
1:30pm–3:30pm
Learn how to appreciate and understand the winemaker's touch by tasting wines made from the same grapes with different wine making techniques or wines made by different winemakers from the same grapes.
Presenter: Max Ariza, Sommelier, Instructor, Johnson & Wales University
Location: DoubleTree Hotel, 743 Horizon Drive, Grand Junction, CO
Cost: $49
SA8 – SEMINAR: Tasting with Riedel Glass
Saturday, September 18
12:00pm–1:30pm
Riedel brings 250 years of glassmaking skill to the finest wineglasses in the world. During this guided journey, taste for yourself how the flavors and aromas of wines are enhanced when a glass shape is designed according to the character of the wine. Participants take home four Riedel glasses retail valued at $116.00.
Limit 75
Presenter: Doug Reed, Regional
Manager
Location: Riedel Tent at Riverside Park
Cost: $94
SU1 – SEMINAR: Introduction to Grape Growing
Sunday, September 19
9am-12noon
An overview of growing wine grapes on a commercial scale, economics of the business, market forces, and a tour of the CSU vineyards.
Presenter: Dr. Horst Caspari, State Viticulturist, CSU
Location: CSU Agricultural Station, 3168 B-1/2 Road
Cost: $43