Save the Date!

Place:  Monroe County Cooperative Extension (the usual place)
                        249 Highland Avenue, Rochester, New York 14620

Time:  Program starts at 0900 hrs and ends at 1600hrs (or so)  
                Registration opens at 0830 hrs

                Show up early so you don't miss anything!

The admission fee for this year's seminar will be $20.   This still represents a major bargain as seminars with the same calibre of speakers will typically cost ten (10x) times this amount, our speaker say so. We will post the speakers and their covered subject as we know them right here, so come back often. 
Last year (2009) we had the winemaker from the Wine & Spirits Magazine Winery of the Year 2008, Peter Bell of Fox Run Vineyards.  This year (2010) we will have the winemaker from Wine & Spirits Magazine Winery of the Year 2009, Dave Breeden of Sheldrake Point Vineyard.  In general we get speakers of this calibre every year.  It just so happens that in 2009 and 2010 we have winemakers from Wine & Spirits Magazine Winery of the Year.
All of this and you can ask questions for $20.00.  Often the presentations are enhanced by the questions asked.  Don't miss anything and be there to ask your own questions. 

Here is a listing of this year's (2009) presentations, some with links to their PowerPoint files or .pdf's:  

Starting a Backyard Vineyard                                      Ed Kwiek, Home Vineyard Consultant

2009 Crop Update                                                             Tom Mitchell, Fall Bright

Basic Home Winemaking                                                 Chris Gerling, Enologist NYS Agriculture
                                                                                                                    Experiment Station at Geneva

SO₂ Management                                                                Staci Nugent, Winemaker at Keuka Lake                                                                                                                                                         Vineyards

Riesling, a Case Study                                                       Peter Bell, Winemaker at Fox 
                                                                                                                                Run Vineyards

Winery Startup                                                                     Herman Young, co-owner of Young                                                                                                                                         Sommers Winery

From Home to Professional Winemaker                      Jan Klapetzky, Winemaker at Young                                                                                                                                            Sommers Winery

Here is the PowerPoint presentation and PDF from 2008

FIXING COMMON WINE MAKING PROBLEMS               Domenic Carisetti, Winery Consultant

SUR LEES (Yeast) STIRRING for TASTE and AGING   Shawn Verity, Heron Hill Winery

Here are the PowerPoint presentations from 2007.  

Making Fruit Wine                       Bill Martin                    Owner and Winemaker,
                                                                                                Montezuma Winery

Fining and Finishing                   Dave Breeden           Winemaker,
                                                                                                Sheldrake Point Vineyards

Basic Testing in Winemaking   Jan Klapetzky            Multiple Award Winning
                                                                                                 New York State Home Winemaker

Wine Faults                                    NYS Home Wine Committee