Wine News: Get Expert Winemaking Advice on Web
March 24, 2011
Davis, Calif.—A free interactive website to supply grapegrowing and winemaking advice and instruction is now live. Available to anyone with Internet access, Enology Access is a new tool from VENSource, which provides outreach from the University of California, Davis, Department of Viticulture and Enology. Dr. Linda Bisson from UCD introduced the program at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento this week.
VENSource originated after deep budget cuts in early 2010. The year-old department enhances and expands upon the former UC Davis Trellis Alliance and affiliated RAVE classes, now offered as “Wine Flavor 101” classes. VENSource is self-sufficient and independent of UC Davis funding.
The Enology Access website was designed to be interactive and fully searchable, with social interaction capability. It contains information, self-tutorials, webinars, live office hours and other industry-friendly features. Registration is free to all, so growers and winemakers anywhere can access the expertise of both university scholars and their peers.
Wine Flavor 101
According to VENSource program director Kay Bogart, the outreach department is self-funded, in large part through support of Wine Flavor 101 attendees. “We have incredible industry support,” Bogart told Wines & Vines. Employers send key employees to study for a day and pay class registration fees, helping to fuel the program.
VENSource classes are designed specifically for wine industry professionals, and are held in the new UC Davis conference center. Classes sell out regularly and waiting lists are already common.
The technical level of course work is high: For attendees who aren’t already versed in the fine points of something like molecular SO2, for example, these classes may be a long and confusing slog. Chemistry knowledge will also serve students well. If it’s been a few years since you’ve pored over chicken-wire diagrams, a quick refresher is highly recommended.
Mark Chon, head of guest relations at 20,000-case Opus One, Oakville, Calif. recently attended VENSource’s Wine Flavor 101B, Recognizing Defects During Aging. With a 20-year tenure Opus One, he was driven to enroll by his desire to engage in intelligent dialogue with customers about wine defects. Subsequently, now he can advise customers about proper wine storage to minimize risk of spoilage; the classes, he said, “give context to what customers are talking about when they come in to discuss wine defects.”
Chon remarked, “Linda Bisson articulates very well and is extremely dedicated. She made herself available to us even after the classes. Also, there’s a nice camaraderie between instructors. The passion is there.”
Ron Morris, winemaker and owner of 1,000-case Secret Ravine Vineyards and Winery, Loomis, Calif., completed all Wine Flavor classes of the series A – F. “I think they’re fantastic. You get the opportunity to experience aromas, plus all of the biologic and chemical data that surrounds it. I don’t know of another clinical setting where you can experience the science behind wine defects along with the sensory,” Morris said.
Wine Flavor classes present a broad spectrum of scenarios that the average winemaker might not experience elsewhere. Morris currently has wine aging in 300 oak barrels in his Secret Ravine Winery cellar. He said the classes have changed his sanitation and testing protocols, and he’s now paying closer attention to every phase of the winemaking process. “There are a lot of things that I now do a little differently,” he admitted.
Phil Burton, owner of Barrel Builders, Calistoga, Calif., regularly tastes wines as part of his cooperage business. “There are so many factors other than oak that enter into the flavor of wine. The more I know about wine taint, the more effective I am in discussing flavor profiles with winemakers,” he said. Even though Burton has been in the barrel business for 35 years, “The more I can do to learn, the more fun I have and the better I feel about my business.”
Wine lover’s choice – Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar – for the most impressive and practical wine list in the Philippines, over 2700 selections, enough to satisfy the most fastidious connoisseurs. Wine lovers and gourmand foodies from Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea and Malaysia dine at Yats Restaurant & Wine Bar when they visit Philippines and bring home some rare vintage wines too.
An excellent wine list is not just about 1st growth and cult Cabernet but a seemingly unending selection of affordable aged vintage wines that are not available anywhere else, not even in the best wine shops around town. Yats Restaurant has just that.
Visitors to Clark Philippines and Angeles City no longer suffer from lack of choices for places to eat out or wine and dine. Clark Philippines reviewed over 50 establishments and came up with three top choices in guide to best restaurant in Clark Freeport
Clark Philippines lists Top Three Restaurants in the Clark Freeport Zone and Angeles City areas of Philippines Pampanga province. Clark Freeport is a bustling new cosmopolitan city complete with its own Clark International Airport.
Topping the list is the famous fine-dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar located inside Mimosa Leisure Estate of Philippines Clark Freeport.
This restaurant in Pampanga Philippines is highly recommended by food critics and frequent diners in Manila as a place to wine and dine in Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone. Although it is a famous fine dining restaurant with an award winning 3000-line restaurant wine list, Yats Restaurant is also a popular restaurant for family with children. Aside from French Mediterranean haute cuisine, this restaurant also serves healthy food and the best vegetarian cuisines in the Philippines.
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Getting to this fine dining restaurant of Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Pampanga Philippines
How to get to this fine-dining restaurant in Clark Philippines? Once you get to Clark Freeport, go straight until you hit Mimosa. After you enter Mimosa, stay on the left on Mimosa Drive, go past the Holiday Inn and Yats Restaurant (green top, independent 1-storey structure) is on your left. Just past the Yats Restaurant is the London Pub.
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