Napa, CA July 14, 2022 – The American Winery Basis (AVF) is happy to announce the institution of a fellowship to help viticulture and enology graduate pupil analysis within the Division of Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis. The Justin Meyer Graduate Pupil Analysis Fellowship honors the late, legendary winemaker Justin Meyer, AVF founder and long-time president. Meyer was additionally a graduate of the Division of Viticulture and Enology on the College of California, Davis.
Meyer’s imaginative and prescient for a partnership between the wine trade and academia led to the creation of AVF and the development of funding for grape and wine analysis. Since 1979, Meyer and his fellow vintners and grape growers labored tirelessly to boost over $34 million {dollars} in analysis funding to unravel the wine trade’s most crucial challenges.
“My dad was an incredible man, and my household and I are deeply honored that the AVF has chosen to award this Fellowship in his reminiscence. He treasured the truth that AVF fostered collaboration from the biggest wineries to the smallest growers to sort out trade challenges. Extra importantly, he usually mirrored that as a result of he got here from humble beginnings, incomes a university scholarship was the enhance he wanted to arrange him for all times and his profession success. He was all the time in search of methods to assist others like him to realize their targets” stated Matthew Meyer, AVF board member and son of Justin Meyer.
The graduate pupil fellowship is a pure extension of AVF’s core mission of analysis help for the grape and wine industries. The fellowship will present $50,000 yearly for 3 years to fund a PhD candidate at UC Davis.
The objective of the fellowship is to draw certified graduate college students to grape and wine analysis whereas encouraging variety within the wine trade. “We’re proud to have the ability to leverage our endowment fund to help deserving graduate researchers as they start their careers in our rewarding trade,” stated Tony Stephen, AVF Chairman. “The AVF is dedicated to the continued help and development of grape and wine analysis.”
One other objective is to commit funding for graduate pupil analysis over a number of years slightly than on a year-to-year foundation. By doing so, the AVF needs to boost analysis continuity and significant deliverables to the trade. The AVF plans to rotate the award each three years to a brand new pupil and analysis goal.
“The AVF endowment empowers us to assist fund vital analysis and scholarships for these graduate college students who endeavor to contribute their skills to enology and viticulture analysis,” stated Jerry Lohr, AVF board member. “We’re in search of extra people to play a component in the way forward for the group. Giving to the endowment helps our ongoing mission of advancing grape and wine analysis.”
Concerning the American Winery Basis
The American Winery Basis (AVF) was based in 1978 by the American Society of Enology and Viticulture (ASEV) to boost funds for analysis in viticulture and enology. Primary and utilized analysis has made the American grape and wine trade the world’s chief. The AVF gives a singular alternative to advance the wine trade by means of analysis efforts to take care of this progress. For extra data go to www.avf.org
Your contributions have funded over $35 million {dollars} in vital analysis for our trade for the reason that American Winery Basis was established in 1979.
