2016 Oregon Tempranillo Celebration
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Oregon empranillo Alliance The Oregon Tempranillo Alliance was organized to promote the growing and sale of Tempranillo grapes in Oregon, and the production and sale of Tempranillo wine Oregon empranillo both in Oregon and other wine markets. Alliance Members 2Hawk Vineyard and Winery Pebblestone Cellars Abacela Winery Plaisance Ranch presents Aurora Vines/Aguila Vineyard Platt Anderson Cellars Belle Fiore Winery Purple Cow Vineyards Castillo de Feliciana Quady North Coventina Vineyards Red Lily Vineyards Dana Campbell Vineyard Reustle Prayer Rock Vineyards Delfino Vineyards RoxyAnn Winery 2016 Oregon EdenVale Winery Schmidt Family Vineyards Folin Cellars Schultz Wines Girardet EVENT Wine Cellars PROGRAMSerra Vineyards Tempranillo Greg Jones Silvan Ridge Grizzly Peak Winery South Stage Cellars Holloran Vineyard Wines Southern Oregon Wine Scene Jaxon Vineyards Stone River Vineyards Celebration Kriselle Cellars TeSóAria Vineyard & Winery Ledger David Cellars Upper Five Vineyard Naked Wines Valley View Winery January 21-22, 2016 Naumes Crush and Fermentation Weisinger Family Winery Paradox Vineyard Zerba Cellars Paul O’Brien Winery The Oregon Tempranillo Alliance is incorporated in Oregon as a tax-exempt 501(c)(6) business organization, Federal Tax ID 47-3796325. EVENT PROGRAM Thurs., Jan. 21 (Belle Fiore Winery) 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Trade Tasting (Les Martin, Coordinator) Participating wineries will be pouring their best tempranillo wines for attending 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Reception distributors, retail shop and restaurant owners, wine stewards, sales persons, restaurant Join us for tempranillo and tapas and meet your fellow tempranillo producers, sommeliers and wait staff. along with our panel of speakers and experts. If you like, bring a bottle of wine 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Oregon Tempranillo Alliance Celebration Banquet to share. Enjoy a special banquet dinner celebration at Ashland Hills Hotel and Suites. You’ll have a chance to talk directly to the speakers and experts, as well as enjoy some great Fri., Jan. 22 (Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites – Grand Ballroom) Oregon wine. Cost is $55 per person, open to participating wineries only. Please bring one bottle of wine per person. 7:30 am – 8:00 am Registration Check in for the event. Coffee, tea and pastries will be available. Speakers & Wine Panel Experts 8:00 am – 8:30 am Introductory Remarks - Earl Jones, President OTA Dr. Greg Jones, Southern Oregon University 8:30 am – 9:30 am Climates of Oregon’s Tempranillo Producing Regions Dr. Greg Jones is the Director of the Division of Business, Communication and the Compared to Spain’s Benchmark Rioja and Ribera del Duero Regions presented Environment and a professor and research climatologist in Environmental Science and by Dr. Greg Jones. Policy at Southern Oregon University. He specializes in the study of climate structure and suitability for viticulture, and how climate variability and change influence 9:30 am – 10:00 am Coffee Break grapevine growth, wine production and quality. 10:00 am – 11:00 am Bedrock Geology and Soils of Oregon Tempranillo Dr. Scott Burns, Portland State University Producing Regions Compared to Spain’s Benchmark Rioja and Ribera del Duero Dr. Scott Burns is a Professor Emeritus of Geology and Past-Chair of the Dept. of Regions” presented by Dr. Scott Burns Geology at Portland State University where he just finished his 26th year of teaching. For the past 46 years he has been studying wine and terroir – the relationship between 11:00 am – 11:30 am Terroir Panel Discussion (Greg Jones, Discussion Leader) wine, soils, geology and climate. He has BS and MS degrees from Stanford University Dr. Scott Burns, Randy Caparoso, Eric Degerman, Richard Jennings and Dr. Greg in California, plus a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Jones will discuss the effects of terroir on tempranillo. 11:30 pm – 12:45 pm Lunch with Oregon Tempranillo (Randy Caparoso and Randy Caparoso Scott Steingraber, Discussion Leaders) Randy Caparoso is a multi-award winning wine journalist who lives in Lodi, California. Lunch will be served accompanied by samples of seven different Oregon tempranillos He is Editor-at-Large and the Bottom Line columnist for The SOMM Journal, and sourced from Oregon’s principal AVA’s (Applegate Valley, Columbia Valley, Hood currently blogs and does social media work for Lodi Winegrape Commission’s lodiwine. River, Rogue Valley North, Rogue Valley South, Umpqua Valley and Willamette com. He also pens wine columns for The Tasting Panel magazine, San Joaquin Valley) Magazine, and Lodi News-Sentinel. 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Effects of Soil Type on Wine Character and Quality Eric Degerman (Eric Degerman and Scott Burns, Discussion Leaders) Eric Degerman is co-owner of GreatNorthwestWine.com, an award-winning wine Taste through seven Oregon tempranillo wines produced in various soils ranging from journalism website co-founded with Andy Perdue and based in Richland, Wash. clay, through silty to sandy. Degerman is a wine judge, journalist and restaurant writer for Wine Press Northwest, a quarterly consumer magazine he co-founded in 1998 that focuses on Washington, 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm Effects of Barrel/Bottle Aging on Wine Character and Oregon, British Columbia and Idaho. Quality (Richard Jennings and Rob Folin, Discussion Leaders) Taste through seven Oregon tempranillo wines with various barrel/bottle aging Richard Jennings profiles. Richard Jennings is the author of over 40,000 tasting notes on CellarTracker.com, the largest compendium of wine tasting notes on the Web, where he is also the “most 3:20 pm – 4:00 pm Summary Comments (Earl Jones, Discussion Leader) favorited” tasting note writer. Richard has been writing about wine since 2003. His Dr. Scott Burns, Randy Caparoso, Eric Degerman, Richard Jennings and Dr. Greg blog, RJonWine.com, launched in April 2010, was a finalist in multiple categories for Jones will summarize findings and answer questions. the Wine Blog Awards from 2011-2014. .