1st Quarter Events
NGGW Qtrly Board Meeting
February 1st
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Email us for Zoom Info
UNR Blending Party
February 16th
5:30 - 7:30 PM
at 4th Street Wineries
reserve a seat
Dual-Track Education
February 19th
10:00 - Noon
Online - ZOOM
Meeting ID: 836 1240 7817
Passcode: 096237
Feedback Friday
March 4th
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Nevada Sunset Winery
415 E 4th St, Reno, NV
Professional Wine Evaluation
March 23 th
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Nevada Sunset Winery
415 E 4th St, Reno, NV
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Big Plans in'22 . . .
STUART'S MESSAGE
In 2020 we took our first baby steps, while simultaneously, dealing with the realities of a pandemic.
In 2021, still blanketed by the black cloud of Covid, we continued to expand our base, conducting webinars, hosting vineyard tours, and rounding out the year with, what members described as: “first-class events”. In October, we celebrated harvest with an outstanding Harvest Dinner at Tamarack Junction and held our first Annual Membership Meeting at the Blackrock Wine Company in November. To close out the year, we gathered at the Washoe Public House in Reno for a warm and joyous Holiday Party.
Now it’s 2022 . . . and we have high expectations for you! Even Chuck Yeager would be impressed.
First, we’re allocating $5,300 (30%) of our financial resources towards Education and $4,500 to Outreach/PR in 2022. Combined ($9,800) is double our entire budget in 2021.
- For Members-Only, quarterly Dual-Track Grape Growing & Winemaking Roundtables will address a list of TO-DO’s that members should be working on in each quarter
- TMCC reached out to NGGW and asked us to offer a beginner’s course on Grape Growing in Nevada over summer in ’22. We’ve expanded the offering to include Winemaking 101. Kathie Russell graciously stepped up to lead the grape growing course and Greg Ross will lead the winemaking course
- Throughout the year we’ll be hosting “Feedback Friday’s” where small groups of members will meet and compare their wines to commercially available wine.
- From April/May through August, members will start hosting vineyard tours again, and we’ll also provide the well-received bottled wine and fermenting juice evaluation events
- NGGW, UNR and DFI are fully committed to conducting varietal research and we’ll also work closely together to offer other resources to grape growers and winemakers in Nevada
- And Education is not just for members; we’re launching an aggressive Outreach/PR program to start educating the general public about Nevada’s grape and wine industry
Ambitious? Yes! Yet clearly, everything is necessary, and required, essential, and a start.
How can “we” accomplish it all? In five words: "many hands make light work".
When YOU see (and personally benefit from) the fruits of our labor, EVERYONE WINS. In return, I’m NOT asking YOU to do ALL the jobs. You’ll be pleased to know that I’m restricting YOU to ONE. But don’t procrastinate. Please step up and take ONE job.
Back to Chuck Yeager. Collectively, when we work together, we have “The Right Stuff” within our Association to make it happen. Together, let’s “cause it to happen”.
2022 REVENUE OBJECTIVES
To accomplish the Education, Outreach/PR and other objectives (listed above), we need money. We’ve set quantifiable goals for revenue that YOU can help with, such as:
- Help Adrain increase the number of Full ($100) Members from 39 > 60. That’s $6,000
- Help Adrian increase the number of Associate Members ($50) from 8 > 18. That’s $3,600.
- Help support the NGGW/UNR/DFI partnership – we’re budgeting for UNR to contribute $10,000 in ‘22
- Help Dan Shore find Bronze/Silver & Gold Sponsors to contribute a total of $2,500
- Help us find 5 sponsors for the 5 vineyard tours @ $100 each ($500 in total)
- Vice President, Adrian Dyette, is our Membership Chair. Please offer to help him with our membership goals.
- Dan Shore has stepped up to serve as our Fundraising Chair. Please step up and offer to help Dan.
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THANK YOU
UNR College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources
for contributing $10,000 to our programs
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Supporting our Goals . . .
NGGW 2022 Budget
We have an aggressive year planned, but it all depends upon having the funds to execute it. We are not planning to spend the entirety of our contribution from UNR immediately, so we are going to need your help; pay your dues, help Adrian bring in new members and Dan find more sponsors, and help out in other areas such as event planning, education, and committees.
2022 PROJECTED REVENUE -$19,500
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2022 PROJECTED EXPENSES - $17,365
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The Key to Better Wine . . .
EDUCATION
 
Introduction:
Education is one of the main reasons grape growers & winemakers in Nevada join NGGW, and continuing education is the key to success. In 2022, NGGW is allocating 30% of our budget towards Member Education.
Vineyard Tours, Webinars, Guest Speakers, Community Education, and More
 NGGW Introduces: Dual-Track Grape Growing and/or Wine Making
Education Series with Quarterly Round-tables
1. Grape Growing and/or 2. Wine Making
About the round-table: the track leaders (and if scheduled, special guest speakers) will cover the topics listed in each quarter. The agenda will be the same each quarter, as below, and the year is divided into four quarters based on what’s happening (or what should be happening) in the vineyard and in the winery during the quarter.
Location: via Zoom
Topic: Grape Growing & Wine Making
Time: 9 AM to Noon
- 9:00 – 10:15 AM Grape Growing Session
- 10:15 –10:20 AM Q & A Grape Growing
- 10-Minute Break Zoom stays LIVE for open discussion
- 10:30 – 11:45 AM Wine Making Session
- 11:45– 10:50 Q & A Wine Making
- 10:50 – Noon Closing Discussion
Dates for the quarterly Round-tables
- Q1 - Saturday, February 19th (See 1st Qtr Events for Zoom Info)
- Q2 - Saturday, May - date TBD
- Q3 - Saturday, August - date TBD
- Q4 - Saturday, November - date TBD
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NEW! For Members in'22 . . .
NGGW Introduces:
FEEDBACK FRIDAYS
NGG W is introducing Feedback Fridays, where one Friday a month 5 members will be able to bring a bottle of their own wine and also must bring a bottle of the same commercial varietal they they aspire to be like. Greg Ross will lead this peer evaluation of member's wine, allowing all members in attendance to evaluate and comment on each of the 10 wines. This will be a great opportunity to receive comments and suggestions. BUT, you must be willing to put on your learning cap and leave the ego cap at home. There is no better way to learn! All full members are welcome to attend the evaluation.
The first Feedback Friday will be March 4th - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at 4th Street Wineries and to start things off, the first 5 members that RSVP will kick off the first Feedback event. juice@nggw.org
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Back in'22 . . .
PROFESSIONAL WINE EVALUATION
(NEW WINE)
 On March 23th from 5 – 7 PM NGGW will offer the first of three yearly professional evaluations of member's wines (in spring - new wine, in summer - bottled wine, in fall - newly fermented wine) at the 4th Street Wineries. Adam Hand (Founder of Great Basin Winery) has graciously offered to host this evaluation and along with guest TBD winemaker will evaluate your new wine to give you early insight into how you may improve them before bottling. Contact us and let us know you’d like to submit 1 or 2 wines.
- Download the submission form from the NGGW website
- Complete the form for each wine before you arrive at 4th St Wineries (415 E 4th St, Reno, NV)
- Bring your new wines in small containers
- Evaluations start at 5 PM (snacks provided)
Members are limited to two (2) wines at this time. We are planning on 12 winemakers submitting 2 wines each (24 in total). If there’s an opportunity for you to bring 3 (or even 4) wines, we’ll let you know prior to the date.
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For Prospective New Members & the Community . . .
CLASSES AT TMCC
TMCC reached out to us in December looking for somebody to teach a grape growing class for beginners and after a couple of weeks discussing it we decided to teach not only a grape growing class, but also a wine making class. Our focus will be to provide the novice with the skills to get started and overcome the fear of failure. Kathie Russell of Palomino Vines will lead Grape Growing and Greg Ross will lead Wine Making. Kathie's classes are three Saturday sessions starting in May, and Greg will follow with 3 wine making sessions just before the harvest season. As part of TMCC's Community Education Program, they will charge a small fee and it will be open to the community and to all NGGW members. We believe this would be the perfect opportunity for our associate members to dive a little deeper in the hobby.
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Vineyard Tours Expanded to 5 in 2022 . . .
VINEYARD TOUR SCHEDULE
We are planning for five vineyard tours in 2022 starting in April and ending in August. Keep your eyes open for the upcoming dates and locations. Call us to be included and this year we are adding a touch more education to the tour.
- April TBD
- May TBD
- June TBD
- July at Palomino Vines
- August at Kruse Rd. Winery
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More Details Provided . . .
OUR DIRECTORS & COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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OTHER INITIATIVES
- Stuart Michell - President *
- Adrian Dyette - Vice President and Membership Committee Chair *
- Kathie Russell - Secretary *
- Thomas Bruce - Treasurer (effective Feb 2022)
- David Perdue - Media Chair *
- Greg Ross - Education Chair *
- Dan Shore - Fund Raising Chair
- Christine Lenox - Special Events Chair
(Less than 10% of the 2022 budget is going to administrative expenses, with most of it going into printing) * Directors
OTHER INITIATIVES AND EVENTS:
1. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of our expenditures are being returned to members in ‘22 in the form of Education, Wine Evaluation, Vineyard Tours, Equipment, and Special Events.)
- Along with DFI, bring Professional grape growers and wine makers to Nevada, for education.
- We are purchasing SO2 meters for members to borrow, allowing you to better manage sulfates.
2. NEW! Outreach/PR Campaign (25% of our expenditures allocated for Outreach/PR). Outreach will accomplish several objectives, besides educating the public about our wine industry: attract new members (heart of all non-profits), brings more sponsors (bulk of our funds) and supports our goals to grow the Nevada wine and grape industry.
- NGGW Announces Plans to Provide Education for Joe's Wine Academy Students
- Articles about Vineyards (and Wine Making) in HOA magazines (FREE)
- Articles about NGGW in RGJ and other newspapers (FREE)
- Articles about NGGW in (10) Nevada Magazines (FREE, $ for small ads)
- Articles about NGGW in Edible Reno-Tahoe magazine (FREE, $ for small ads)
- NEW! NGGW Open House (2 in 2022) learn more later
3. Membership Goals for 2022 (37% of Revenue from Membership in 2022)
- Regular ($100) Members from 39 > 60 (+21)
- Associate ($50) Members from 8 > 18 (+10)
4. Sponsorship Goals (63% of Revenue from Sponsors in 2022)
- 1 x Platinum ($10,000) UNR CABNR
- X x Gold ($5,000 - $9,999)
- X x Silver ($1,000 - $4,999)
- 6 x Bronze (3 x $250 and 3 x $500)
- 5 x Vineyard Tour Sponsors/Contributions ($100)
5. 2022 Special Events (20% of Our Expenditures Allocated for Special Events in ‘22)
- July Sponsors & Members BBQ
- October - Annual Harvest Dinner
- October 29th Nevada Day Parade Float
- December - Holiday Celebration
6. Update the Nevada Vineyard Survey, something we committed to do for DFI.
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Do your Part in '22 . . .
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