Seminars

A list of all Winefest Seminars for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 18-20, 2009

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FR1 – SEMINAR: Re-setting Your Taste Buds: How the Components of Food and Wine Interact

Friday, September 18
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: Palisade Community Center, Hwy 6 and Main Street, Palisade, CO
Cost: $45

FR2 – SEMINAR: Rhone Rangers

Friday, September 18
2pm–4pm

Sommelier, Max Ariza, will talk about the Rhone varietals right here in Colorado and are they fad or fact. Discover Syrah and Viognier produced by Colorado’s leading wineries. Please come with an open mind and a thirst for wine!!

Presenter: Max Ariza, Sommelier, Instructor, Johnson & Wales University
Location: DoubleTree Hotel, 743 Horizon Drive, Grand Junction, CO
Cost: $45

FR3 – An Intimate Riedel Tasting Event with Maximilian Riedel

Friday, September 18
3:00pm–5:00pm

For the first time at the Colorado Mountain Winefest, the XI generation of the Riedel family, Maximilian Riedel, brings the magic of his unique varietals specific glassware to this exclusive intimate Riedel Glass tasting event. Don’t miss an opportunity to learn and understand the nuances and subtleties that the right glassware has on your perception of fine wine. Maximilian will lead us through an educational seminar which will change the way you think about wine forever! There is limited seating at this event so please purchase your tickets early. Each guest attending this event will go home with a first hand Riedel experience and the beautiful selection of Vitis glasses used at the tasting.

Please make your reservations early as there is limited seating.

Location: Wine County Inn, 777 Grande River Drive, Palisade CO
Cost: $200

SA8 – SEMINAR: Morning Tasting with Riedel Glass

Saturday, September 19
11:00am–12:30pm

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. You get to keep your glasses!

Limit 75 per session

Presenter: Tommy Leman, Riedel District Manager
Location: Riedel Tent at Riverside Park
Cost: $90

SA9 – SEMINAR: Afternoon Tasting with Riedel Glass

Saturday, September 19
1:30pm–3:00pm

Presenter: Tommy Leman, Riedel District Manager
Location: Riedel Tent at Riverside Park
Cost: $90

SU1 – SEMINAR: Introduction to Grape Growing

Sunday, September 20
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: $40