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Hope-Merrill & Hope-Bosworth
Bed & Breakfast Inns
Pick and Press
Wine Making
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Marked by excellence and labeled as extraordinary – an annual
transformational
event takes place at Hope-Merrill & Hope-Bosworth Inns, located in Geyserville … in the heart of
Sonoma’s picturesque wine country: A wine lover's experience.
Some of valley’s finest grapes are pressed into wine by "students of
the vine," say innkeepers Ron and Cosette Scheiber. "The dual summer and spring events are a blend
of picking, pressing, dining, plus plenty of learning and laughter."
For detailed
information
go here or phone:
1-800-825-4233
And the setting – the elegant, historic, museum-quality-antique-appointed
Hope-Merrill & Hope-Bosworth Inns, makes this wine making experience irresistible to those with a love of the finest life
has to offer.
Session 1: Sun-Mon, September
14-15, 2008 and Sun-Mon, May 10-11, 2009
(Program ends at Noon on Tuesday)
- or -
Session 2: Wed-Thurs, September
17-18, 2008 and Wed-Thurs, May 13-14, 2009
(Program ends at Noon on Friday)
- or -
Session 3: Sun-Mon,
September 21-22, 2008 and Sun-Mon, May 17-18, 2009
(Program ends at Noon on Tuesday)
See NBC11
Wine Country Living's video of our "Aspiring Vintners"
Wine Making 101
event
Click Here!
(Best viewed with fast internet connection)
Take a look at some PRIOR
PICKING and some PRIOR BOTTLING
pictures,
and don't forget to look at the awards these wines have won
HERE!
For detailed
information
go here or phone:
1-800-825-4233
The Scheiber’s have created a "crushing good time" for their
Wannabe Wine Makers
with a package deal that is as pleasing as the wine they collectively produce. The pair of events
include four nights lodging at The Hope-Merrill and Hope-Bosworth House Inns;
scrumptious country-style breakfasts each morning; two wine/food receptions; two
gourmet picnics; four alfresco dinners; two private winery tours and tasting;
plus, take home two cases of your very
own wine that you made.
Graham Parnell has been our Pick & Press winemaker for the past 11 years.
He is the Chairman of the West Coast Wine Competition and co-coordinator of the Grand Harvest Awards
Competition. He is the Sonoma County's Winery Associations representative to Europe and has
just recently returned from Prowein in Düsseldorph Germany where he was one of the presenters. Up to
last year, he was an instructor in the Enology Department at Santa Rosa Junior College. Graham
is the Managing Editor for Vineyard & Winery Management Magazine and also writes a monthly wine
column for a business magazine.
The cost for the entire Wine Making package – Pick & Press – experience (Fall
& Spring) is: $1500 per couple plus tax. The September / May dates can be split with another couple when
requested … a perfect birthday, anniversary or wedding gift.
For detailed information
go here or phone:
1-800-825-4233
Article from: Cooking Light Magazine - November 2000 - Page
22 *
Château d'You
What's even better than scoring a rare bottle of wine? Making one of your own vintage. You
can do just that at the Pick and Press Wine Making Event, held at the Sonoma Valley's Hope Inns
over two days in September and two more days the following May. Aspiring winemakers pick their
own grapes, run them through the presses, and then blend them to their hearts' content, all with
the help of Graham Parnell, managing editor of Vineyard and Winery Management magazine and chair
of the West Coast Wine Competition. Besides the hands-on fun, which includes designing labels
for the two cases of wine you take home, innkeepers Ron and Cosette Scheiber treat guests to
gourmet picnics, alfresco dinners, and private winery tours and tastings. Dates have yet to be
confirmed for the 2001-2002 event, but space is limited to 12 couples. Cost is $975 per couple;
details: 800-825-4233 or www.hope-inns.com. |
* Oops -- Due to a typo error, which they corrected in their January
2001 issue, the price was not $975, it should have been $1200 per couple plus tax.
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