An article appearing in the Niagara Dailies, the Grimsby Lincoln News and the Peterborough Examiner details a new winemaking memorial award from the Ontario Wine Awards to honour NC alumnus Paul Pender, who was the Director of Viticulture and Winemaking at Tawse Winery when he passed away suddenly in February.
The Paul Pender Memorial Rising Star Award will honour Pender’s winemaking legacy and will be presented annually to “an individual who has exhibited outstanding talent and professionalism in their work for an Ontario winery, in memory of Pender’s ‘enthusiasm and his unstinting mentorship of newly minted winemakers’.”
The article also mentions that the award will be presented on June 16 at NC’s Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake as part of the Ontario Wine Awards medal ceremony.
Read the March 10 article on the St. Catharines Standard’s website here.
