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CERA 2009 Harvest Research Project part 2--Viticulture

Post-doctoral researcher Mark Krasnow requests CERA's help with a crop-thinning trial.  The trial compares thinning at veraison with leaving the vines untouched.  Whether or not you thin in your vineyards, you can thin/not-thin 20 vines selected at random, can't you?

CERA 2009 Harvest Research Project part 1--Winemaking

Hey CERA,

Let's put the "R" back in CERA! UC-Davis professor Linda Bisson has asked for our help with a research project on native fermentations.  If you think you can participate, please let me know.  This project has relevance for all the committees, so let's get as much participation as we can.

I'll talk about this further at the annual meeting on July 10, too.  Feel free to ask any questions here, via email vp@cerawine.com or at the Annual Meeting.

Project details:

CERA Annual Meeting July 10

07/10/2009 - 08:00
07/10/2009 - 13:00

 

CERA ANNUAL TECHNICAL MEETING

Brand Lab Products - Posted for Matthew Shuplock

> My question is as follows....
Has anyone ever used "Brand" lab products? They recently displayed bottle top burets (non corrosive to iodine) and electronic repeating pipettors at the Managing the Winery Workshop. If so, can you please describe the product you use, and what you think of "Brand" equipment?

Thanks

Matthew Shuplock
RMW Quality Control
7079682365

 

CERA-Wide Survey regarding cooperage---Deadline May 22

Hey folks,

Please click here 

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB2296CVC66ND

to complete a survey on all things related to your oak cooperage.  The greater the participation, the better the data will be.

Sensory Meeting - Theme Germany Wine, Beer, and Cheese

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04/29/2009 - 16:00
04/29/2009 - 17:30

 

Chlorine Dioxide Applications For Winery Disinfection

04/28/2009 - 14:00
04/28/2009 - 16:00

Alonzo Cabell of Ashland Chemical will be talking about Chlorine Dioxide at our next Micro Meeting.

Alonzo has given me a FAQ handout that covers many general questions that I can E-mail to anyone that is interested.  This will allow him to talk/discuss more in depth questions during our meeting. 

Location: Franciscan Vineyards  1178 Galleron Rd.  St. Helena, CA 94574

Room:  Napa Room

 

Managing High Alcohol Wines: From Vineyard to Bottle

04/07/2009 - 15:00
04/07/2009 - 17:00

at Beaulieu Vineyards in Rutherford, CA

PLEASE RSVP TO ssublett [at] tfewines.com

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN TASTING GLASESS. Any samples or trials people would
like to share are welcome.
Remember to bring a bottle of wine to each meeting to thank our host.

Anyone who still needs to pay CERA dues for 2009 may leave a check with me.
Membership forms and confidentiality agreements also need to be
re-submitted each year.  Any prospective members should also bring a
resume to submit with their membership forms.

Demo of CL-10 at Robert Mondavi Winery

04/08/2009 - 14:00
04/08/2009 - 16:30

The CL-10 Instrument has several enzyme kits to be run with the instrument. As this kit is instrument-based, we have quite a few specialized kits that will allow you to simultaneously test for multiple parameters at the same time from the same sample.  For example, our Combi Test kit (used with the CL-10 instrument) will allow you to test for pH, total acidity and quantification of medium (0.4-72 g/l) or high (72-270 g/L) levels of glucose+fructose in wine and must.
 

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