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High Impact Wine Education, Blending Community, Philanthropy and Education
Making learning evident to students is valuable to their development. As a collaboration between the Julia Child Foundation, Red Hook Winery and the students in the HMGT 4997 course, Wines of the New World, we learned about wine making and blended our own wine. Here are some results!
See examples of student learning using the following links:
Various posts after the 2013 wine blending session were particularly thoughtful:
- Nicole’s First winery experience: see the post here
- Shows process… https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/new-world-wines-13/2013/10/24/group-5-wine-blending/
- One of the “winning” blends (white wine) and a thank you included in the reflection:
http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/new-world-wines-13/2013/10/21/our-experience-of-wine-blending-sunflower-bloom/
My reflection on the educational winery tour (2013):
- https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/new-world-wines-13/2013/10/21/red-hook-winery-4/#comments
- https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/new-world-wines-13/2013/10/25/photos-of-the-blending-session/
Note: this course is supported by a grant from the Julia Child Foundation. See āgrantsā in the scholarship section of this PARSE for more information.
