The St. Catharines Standard featured NC’s annual Grape Stomp, highlighting first-year Winery and Viticulture Technician students as they took part in the tradition at the College’s Teaching Winery at the Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
The article featured winemaking professor Gavin Robertson, who explained how the event, known as the Ancient Wine Project, introduces students to early winemaking practices before they learn modern techniques.
“We’re just putting the juice from the foot stomp, in a low technology to yield juice, into a clean vessel, and we’re just going to let the wild microbes do their thing,” he said.
The coverage also highlighted Teaching Winery Head Winemaker Allison Findlay and included several photos of NC students harvesting and stomping grapes, including first-year students Matt Greco, Isabella Geberdt and Anyssa Baird.
Read the September 21 article here.
