6th Annual Vintners Hall of Fame Induction Celebration
February 20, 2012 (Mon)
from 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
St. Helena, CA
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Walk Around Tasting
The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at Greystone invites food and wine enthusiasts to a rare opportunity to mingle with noted winemakers, famous chefs, and wine-loving celebrities, while supporting the future of wine education in America.
In celebration of Presidents' Day, selected California wineries will host a reception featuring wine and food pairings from White House menus. The members of the Class of 2012 will be inducted in the Vintners Hall of Fame Barrel Room after the unveiling of sculpted bronze plaques honoring those inducted in 2011. The induction ceremony will be followed by a Walk-Around Dinner in the college's teaching kitchen with wines from members of the Vintners Hall of Fame. Mingle with White House Chef and CIA graduate, Walter Scheib, guest chef and congressman Mike Thompson, Almir DaFonseca, executive chef of the Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant, and other CIA chefs.
The Culinary Institute of America has dedicated the historic Barrel Room to celebrate the men and women who have been responsible for the growth and world-wide prestige of the California wine industry. Each year, inductees are selected by a panel of over 75 national wine writers, critics, and historians. This year’s inductees include:
· Peter Mondavi, Sr. of Charles Krug Winery. For showing just how fresh and fruity California wine can be, few vintners have been as instructive as Peter Mondavi, Sr. Studious and quiet, he often transformed theory into practice, establishing new standards for the wine trade.
· Joe Heitz of Heitz Cellars in St. Helena. In his many accomplishments, Heitz helped make Napa Cabernet a serious, collectible wine. He also established the Fresno State enology curriculum, setting up its hands-on approach.
· Myron Nightingale has been called by the Los Angeles Times “Beringer’s Angel of Mercy”. As winemaker and director of operations, he brought the winery back to life and gradually made it a large- scale producer of world-class varietal wines, making Beringer a household name.
· Richard Sanford is the first winemaker to prove the potential for Pinot Noir in the chilly Santa Rita Hills. In 1981 he started Sanford Winery and spent the next 20 years making some of the best regarded Pinot Noirs from the region and helped put Santa Barbara wines on the map.
- John Parducci took over winemaking at his family’s Mendocino County winery in 1940. He strived to improve the quality of wine and to make it more accessible. Parducci helped build his family’s winery and the Mendocino region into a noted wine presence.
- Albert Winkler helped build UC Davis’ enology and viticulture program into one of the world’s finest. His classic textbook "General Viticulture," published in 1962, has been used by thousands of winemakers and grape growers and translated into several languages.
- Eugene Hilgard, whose work in the late 19th century made him one of the pioneers of soil science. He created a unit at UC devoted to viticulture and enology, the first in the nation, and today the greatest. Hilgard's ideals and the program he founded are still evident today in UC Davis' Department of Viticulture and Enology.
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