{"id":182,"date":"2014-06-02T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T00:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2014-06-02T00:49:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T00:49:40","slug":"winemaker-conference-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Winemaker Conference 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Winemaker<\/a>
A discourse from the source, of course, of course.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m heading to Virginia next week for the Winemaker Magazine 2014 conference<\/a>, June 5-7 at the fabulous Lansdowne Resort in DC’s ‘Wine Country’.\u00a0\u00a0I haven’t missed a conference\u00a0since the very first, in Monterey back in 2008<\/a>. I love the Winemaker conference: even though I have to work\u00a0during the conference I get a chance to meet old friends, find out how their wines are coming along, see how they’re doing and generally catch up with a great bunch of people. In all these years I haven’t met one winemaker I wouldn’t be happy to have as a guest in my house. I think there’s something about taking winemaking seriously that self-selects for thoughtful, happy folks.<\/p>\n

\"teachering\"<\/a>
Lecturing to a sharp crowd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is going to be an especially cool year. I’m teaching a one-day Winemaking Boot Camp.<\/a> It’s going to be an intensive one-day course with a lot of hands-on trials of advanced equipment, for bottling, transferring, processing and testing. It was a bit of a scramble pulling it all together since my previous\u00a0corporate sponsor is no longer involved with the conference, but with the help of some friends (more on that soon) and the understanding and largesse of Winemaker Magazine<\/a> (thanks Brad!) I think I’ve put together a really outstanding program.<\/p>\n

\"top-secret\"<\/a>
I’ve got a little file on that . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The really cool part is going to be on post-fermentation correction of wine character. This is the secret stuff that in my former life I was obligated to discourage, since it wasn’t part of the program for our products–the companies stances have always been that wines made from kits should be considered complete in themselves. While this is technically true, that still leaves an awful lot of room for tweaking kits, especially now that the toolbox and palette\u00a0of professional winemakers is now available to retail consumers! It’s going to be a ton of fun!<\/p>\n

Well, if I get that case of wine across the border, that is . . . hmm.<\/p>\n

You can follow me on Facebook <\/a>and Twitter <\/a>for ongoing updates ( #WineMagConf) from on the ground.<\/p>\n

Also, as always bookmark this page and check back: good news is always just around the corner!<\/p>\n

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I’m heading to Virginia next week for the Winemaker Magazine 2014 conference, June 5-7 at the fabulous Lansdowne Resort in DC’s ‘Wine Country’.\u00a0\u00a0I haven’t missed a conference\u00a0since the very first, in Monterey back in 2008. I love the Winemaker conference: even though I have to work\u00a0during the conference I get a chance to meet old … <\/p>\n

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