Consult the Winemaker - Davenport & Company

Specific Ways To Use My Expertise As A Consultant

• As a winemaker to personally oversee winemaking operations from the vineyard through bottling.

• As a wine stylist to select the proper winemaking/blending techniques, cooperage, and aging regimes to garner praise from wine critics.

• As a teacher/mentor for an inexperienced winemaker.

• As an advisor to work with an architect/engineer to design the functional aspects of a winery and choose processing methods and equipment.

• As a judge to objectively evaluate wine quality, particularly during blending.

• As an analyst to determine economic consequences of winemaking methods and decisions.

• As a technician to set up quality control procedures for the vineyard, lab, cellar, and bottling.

• As a problem solver to track down causes of contamination/spoilage in the winery and rescue difficult wines.

• White varietal barrel fermentation styles and techniques.

• Cooperage selection and evaluation, wide experience, French, American.

• Partial barrel fermentation of selected red varietals.

• Blending to enhance quality and to make Meritage wines.

• Matching wine style and quality with desired price point.

• Planning/managing for winery growth and expansion.

• Experienced with fruit from the major Appellations of Sonoma County: Chalk Hill; Carneros; Alexander, Dry Creek, Knight’s, Sonoma, Russian River, and Green Valleys.