Anna Maria Ponzi, former owner, chief executive and president of Ponzi Vineyards, will serve as interim director of Linfield University’s Center for Wine Education after Tim Matz announced plans to step down at the end of the year. Ponzi is a second-generation wine producer who was instrumental in establishing Oregon’s Willamette Valley as a world-renowned winegrowing region. … [Read more...] about Anna Maria Ponzi to serve as interim director of Linfield wine studies programs
Tim Matz
Matz stepping down as chair of wine studies
After more than two years of innovative leadership, Tim Matz has announced he will retire as head of Linfield University’s wine studies programs at the end of the year. Under Matz’s leadership, Linfield introduced new courses of study, including the Master of Science in business specializing in wine business leadership and new events such as the BIPOC Wine Symposium, which … [Read more...] about Matz stepping down as chair of wine studies
Wine bar will be learning lab for Linfield students
Written by Starla Pointer of the News-Register; reprinted with permission. Linfield University students will learn about running a business and serving customers, and community members will have another location for sipping wine, when the new Acorn to Oak Wine Experience opens later this summer in downtown McMinnville. The educational project will fill the space long occupied … [Read more...] about Wine bar will be learning lab for Linfield students
Inaugural BIPOC Wine Symposium draws huge names and packs Graf Hall
Linfield University’s inaugural BIPOC Wine Symposium drew more than 70 wine professionals and students from Oregon and beyond, including Robin McBride who, with her sister Andrea, runs McBride Sisters Wine Company, the largest Black-owned winery in the United States. Hosted by the Evenstad Center for Wine Education at Linfield University in partnership with Asociación Hispana … [Read more...] about Inaugural BIPOC Wine Symposium draws huge names and packs Graf Hall
Inclusion advocate and strategist Amanda Wittstrom Higgins to speak at Wine Lecture Series March 1
Linfield University’s Wine Lecture Series will continue Wednesday, March 1 with a talk from Amanda Wittstrom Higgins, who has spent decades making wine’s tent larger. A complimentary wine reception begins at 5:30 p.m., with the lecture to follow at 6 p.m in Nicholson Library (location) on Linfield’s McMinnville campus. The event is free and open to the public. Wittstrom … [Read more...] about Inclusion advocate and strategist Amanda Wittstrom Higgins to speak at Wine Lecture Series March 1
