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Sign up today and venture to St. Charles, Missouri this coming February for the Grape & Wine Conference in the Midwest where you can find it ALL! 

Registration is fast and easy simply click RegistrationBoss to get started! Click the cover to the left to view the Attendee Packet.

The BEST deal is the "I Want it ALL" full conference pass that includes 4-days of sessions, all social events, speaker luncheon and trade show both days - a $230 Savings!  Can't make the full four days?  We have savings for one-day passes as well.  To view the Attendee Registration Form click HERE

Extensive Two-Day Trade Show for the Midwest is the meeting place for wine making, vineyard and tasting room decision makers.  See new and available products up close at this extensive two-day trade show filled with over 170 vendors from all over the US and Canada. 

High Profile Speakers and Sessions! See what the Moderators are planning for you:

  • Elizabeth Slater's - In Short Direct Marketing, Windsor, CA
  • Paul Wagner - Balzac Communications & Marketing, Napa, CA
  • Dr. Keith Stiegler & Marco LiCalzi continue to bring high profile guest speakers for Viticulture and Enology sessions.

Sneak-a-Peak at sessions that should be on your list:

  • Blended Sessions - It's time to talk business-this all new blended session covers generation sucession and the business of grape growing and wine making.
  • Advanced Enology - Find out what's new in wine technology
    • Thermoflash and extraction methods for red wine
    • innovative softward for acid adjustment and tartaric stability prediction
    • transforming wine microbiology
  • Advanced Viticulture - Future of Vinifera!  Learn how people are successfully growing Vinifera and how they plan to grow Vinifera in light of climate change.
  • Basic Viticulture - You think you want to grow grapes? - This full day covers everything from site selection to harvest...truly basic!
  • Missouri Wine Technical Group - Vignoles Varietal Technical Tasting Workshop.  Blind wine tasting provides and open and honest forum focused on education and constructive advice.  One can expect to leave this workshop knowing much more than when you arrived and to improve overall quality.  Moderated by Matteo Meglioli, Mosti Modiale, Montreal, Canada.
  • Introductory Viticulture - Minnesota Varieties, their performance in the Midwest.
  • Introductory Enology - Small winery bottling.  HELP My Wine Stinks! Winery Sanitation. Barreling and Tartaric Stability.
  • Marketing - Elizabeth Slater's "How to Sell Anything" create in your visitors the desire to buy.  "Short Sessions with In Short" join Elizabeth for an up-close and invigorating hour devoted to Q&Q on any and all direct-to-consumer issues, small groups 10 or less.
  • More Marketing - Just to mention a couple of session, "How to Sell Wine"--what's Hot, what's Not, "Seven Wine Marketing Mistakes...and Seven Solutions"
  • Trade Show- Visit over 170 exhibitors from across the globe, covering every facet of your business!

We look forward to bringing you the best in the Midwest conference and trade show.

See what Attendees and Exhibitors had to say about our 2011 Trade Show.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Rozanna Benz, Conference Director
Address: 191 Highway 94, Rhineland, MO 65069
Phone: 573-236-4629 
Email: rbenz@vwm-online.com                

 

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