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2025 Annual Meeting and Conference
& Wine Competition Information

The 2025 Conference, Annual Meeting and Wine Competition will be held on

February 21-22, 2025, at the Baymont, Mandan ND.

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Registration will be available on Eventbrite (click here) with a 50% discount

 on conference registration applied at check-out. Limited number of discounts available, available to Members and Non-Members; thanks to a grant from the ND Ag. Department.

The conference schedule is in the planning stages, rest assured it will be filled with great content.  

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AND WINE COMPETITION

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Friday, February 21, 2025

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12:00 - 1:00 pm - Registration – Baymont Inn, Mandan, ND

1:00 - 1:05 pm - Welcome - President, Kevin Kinzel,

1:10 - 1:40 pm -Scott Labs - Katie Cook - Zoom mtg

1:45 - 2:00 pm - GS 1 - Haskap Variety and Winemaking Process Evaluations - Aditya Anand

2:05 - 2:20 pm - GS 2 - Cold Hardiness Assessment in Grapevines Using Differential Thermal Analysis and Phenotypic 

                                  -Clustering - Hava Delavar

2:25 - 2:50 pm -GS 3 - Phenology of Hardy Grapes: Year 1 Update - Elizabeth Krause

3:00 - 3:30pm - Break - Silent Auction - Buy it now option

3:35 - 4:20 pm - Argentina Wine Country Trip - Bob Thaden

 4:25 - 4:55 pm - ND Tourism - Deanna

6:00 - 10:00 pm - Wine Competition and Social - includes hors d’oeuvres included in conference registration. Open to the public, tickets available on Eventbrite

 

Saturday, February 22, 2025

 

8:00 - 9:00 am - Breakfast Buffet

9:00 - 9:45 am - NDGWA Organization Updates, round table discussion - President, Kevin Kinzel

9:45 - 10:00 am - GS 4 - Grape Breeding, Enology, and Viticulture Updates from NDSU - Avery Shikanai

10:00 - 10:30 am -Break - Silent Auction - Buy it now option

10:30 - 10:45 am - GS 5 - Does a Caterpillar Tunnel Increase 'Marquette' and 'Petite Pearl' Productivity? - Amin Khan

10:50 - 11:05 am - GS 6 - Unraveling Freeze Tolerance and Acclimation Mechanisms in Wine Grapes: A                                                 Transcriptomic Perspective - Ramesh Pilli

11:10 - 11:55 am - Township Road Farm - Larry and Christie Walsh

12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch - Silent Auction - Buy it now option

1:05 - 1:50 pm - Back Sweetening Your Wine - Dr Brent Trela

1:55 - 2:30 pm - Managing Grape Diseases Common in ND - Greg Krieger & Dr. Harlene Hatterman-Valenti

2:30 - 3:00 pm - Break - Silent Auction Ends

3:00 - 3:45 pm - Every Last Drop: Pouring Out Twelve Years of Fermentation Experimentation - Dr. Andrej Svyantek  -                               Zoom mtg.

3:45 - 4:30 pm - Piquette “Wine” - Photos, Recipes, Protocols and Samples - Thaden

4:35 - 5:30 pm - NDGWA Annual Meeting

5:30 - 6:00 pm - Social

6:00 - 9:00 pm - Banquet

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Bring an item for the silent auction if you wish.

 

Friday night wine competition, social, breaks, breakfast and lunch on Saturday, during the conference are included in the conference registration.

 

An additional charge for the Saturday, February 22 buffet is $28 under the add-on tickets.

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Pay your 2025 dues when you register for the conference, look under the add-on tickets.

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The Baymont Mandan, 2611 Old Red Trail, Mandan, ND 58554, 701-663-7401 has set aside a block of rooms for the NDGWA for $129. Contact - Baymont by Wyndham Mandan Bismarck Area

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The 2025 People's Choice Wine Competition will be held Friday, February 21.

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Download the Wine entry form here - 

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Whether you are a home wine maker or a professional, the wine competition is open to anyone wanting to promote the grape and wine industry in North Dakota. You do not have to be a member of the NDGWA. Entries are due at the Baymont by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 21.

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The Wine Competition is part of the conference registration, if you know of others who wish to attend, the People's Choice Competition is, as in the past, open to the public to attend, there are tickets available on

Eventbrite (click here) 

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