Click  for Calendar Join Us at the First Top of Illinois Wine Fest Depot Park on the Riverfront, Galena, IL Saturday, June 19, 2010 --- 11:00a till 6:00p For More Information: www.topofilwinefest.info 
Seminar: Cotes du Rhone - "Great Wines of the Rhone Valley" Speaker: Megan Wiig CSW, Masters OIV, Speaker Profile Three hour seminar and tasting discussing the diversity wine from the Rhone Valley, with tasting. Saturday, July 17, 2010 --- 1:00p till 4:00p The Barrel Room, Galena Cellars Winery, Ford Road Limited to 50 Registrants - Registration Form
The Northern Illinois Wine Growers has scheduled a special event for July 17, 2010, of direct interest to owners of vineyards/wineries located within the Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA (Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin). Ms. Megan Wiig, graduate of the prestigious Universite Paris X, O.I.V. Masters in Wine Business, will deliver an orientation to the history, organization and administration of the Cotes du Rhone Appellation, North/South (Crus, Village, and General), evaluation and supervision of member vineyards/wineries, and required practice standards in viticulture and enology. She will discuss examples of terrior and describe cultivars. Intermittent throughout the seminar, participants will sample and evaluate representative (4-6) Cotes du Rhone wines, white/red. For further info contact: ghpodraza@yahoo.com
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