March 21, 2019 at the UC Davis Conference Center
8:30‐9:00: Registration and Coffee
9:00‐9:10: Welcome: Anita Oberholster, Extension Specialist in Enology, UCD Viticulture & Enology
9:10‐10:00: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bottling but Were Afraid to Ask – Zoran Ljepović , Independent Consultant
10:00‐10:15 BREAK (split into 2 groups – Oxygen presentation & mobile bottling line)
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10:45 – 11:00 BREAK (groups switch from Oxygen presentation to Bottling line demo)
10:15‐10:45 and 11:15–11:45: Oxygen Management in the Bottle ‐ Andrew Waterhouse, Professor, UCD Viticulture & Enology and Executive Director of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science
10:15 ‐11:45: Mobile Bottling Line Demo – Vince Gutierrez, Business Development Manager, G3 Bottling Division
11:45–12:45: LUNCH
12:45‐1:15: Agglomerated Cork Trial and TASTING– Andrew Waterhouse
1:15‐2:15: Closure Technologies Panel ‐ Agglomerated corks from DIAM, Francois Margot; Synthetic Corks from Nomacorc, Don Huffman; Stelvin Screw Caps from Amcor, Kevin Ryder; Natural Cork from Cork Supply, Greg Hirson
2:15‐2:30: BREAK
2:30‐3:30: Bottling Supply Chain Panel – Mark Peters, G3 Enterprises; Ed Rice, Affinity Creative; Joyce Vagnozzi, Avery Dennison
3:30‐3:35: Final comments and adjournment – Anita Oberholster