Updates on the RMAVV web page:

There is a new page for winery awards.

I've added a link to a list of the Colorado Wine Industry Development Board Members to the 'Useful Links' page.

Winery Fax from Doug Caskey at the CWIDB

Date:       Tue, 2 Jul 2002
In anticipation of updating the CWIDB website, please send us a list of
recent awards.  Thanks! (and to me too, for the RMAVV website - nmj)
Doug Caskey (& Nancy Janes too...)
executive director
Colorado Wine Industry Development Board
4550 Sioux Drive
Boulder, CO 80303-3733
Ph: 720.304.3406 / Fax: 720.304.3405
 

Date: 1-Jul-02
From: Doug Caskey, executive director
Colorado Wine Industry Development Board
Phone: 720.304.3406
TO: All Colorado Wineries
We have just been asked to participate in the annual Denver Taste of the Nation event scheduled for July 28, 2002 at Johnson & Wales University.
Due to the CWIDB’s new promotional wine purchasing policy, we are looking for wineries to participate on an individual basis.  This year each winery will be paired with a restaurant and is asked to donate two different wines (one case of each) to match the food being served.
Attached is further information regarding the event, including a winery participation form.  If interested, please email or fax the completed participation form to Terri Miller at terrygmill@aol.com or 303-452-0036 (fax), or contact her with any further questions.
Also, we are still looking for several more wineries to donate wine for the National Conference of State Legislatures scheduled for July 24, 2002.  Please note that you would not have to be present for this event.  I will be on the Western Slope sometime during the week of July 15th if you would like me to pick up wine for this event.
The Craig Memorial Hospital and Arvada Elks Lodge Colorado Wine Tastings are both quickly approaching (scheduled for Saturday September 28th and either Saturday October 12th or 19th, respectively).  Please contact me as soon as possible if you are interested in participating at either of these events so that we can begin the planning process.
 

Direct Shipment and State Legislators
Date:         Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:49:38 -060

Below is a message from Ron Binz, co-owner of Trail Ridge Winery in
Loveland, former CO Wine Board chair, and current officer of the American
Vintners Association.
Doug Caskey, executive director
Colorado Wine Industry Development Board

Dear Colorado Wine Colleague,

I'm writing to ask if you'd consider helping out on the direct wine shipment
issue with the American Vintners Association (AVA) and the advocacy
organization Free the Grapes!

During the third week July, the National Conference of State Legislators
(NCSL) is holding its annual meeting in Denver.  As part of the meeting,
Free the Grapes! is hosting an information booth to meet with legislators
and talk about direct shipment laws.   In past years, there has been a lot
of interest in the issue among legislators at the NCSL meeting.

As you may know, I am a board member of the AVA, an organization with a
strong interest in liberalizing the wine shipment laws.  AVA and Free the
Grapes think it will be very effective to have actual wineries there to tell
lawmakers how important the issue is to our industry.  It will be easy
work--just explaining how direct shipment can work, what consumers want, and
what it would mean to your business.  Mainly we want to put a face on the
concept of a small winery.

Please let me know if you can join me and others at the booth for a couple
hours on Thursday and Friday, July 25-26.  The meeting is at the Adams Mark
Hotel in downtown Denver.  I'll need to know in advance if you can help out
so I can schedule folks and arrange to have a floor pass for your use.  (AVA
will pay for the cost of the floor pass.)

Thanks for considering this.  Please call (303-393-1556) or email
mailto:rbinz@rbinz.com if you need more information.

Have a great Fourth of July.
Ron Binz
___________________________________
Ronald J. Binz
Trail Ridge Winery
Public Policy Consulting

333 Eudora Street
Denver, Colorado  80220-5721
303-393-1556 tel
303-355-7318 fax
website: www.rbinz.com