Event Type: Seminars and Classes

Description: Learn winemaking by actually producing wine at Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science Winery. This hands-on class is designed to give novice home and small-scale winemakers experience before the varietal harvest in September and October. Emphasis is on the actual process, rather than on theory of winemaking. Work with incoming fruit, crush red and white grapes, as well as pressing juice with other class participants using traditional and non-traditional methods. In addition, cap management, yeast and malolactic inoculation, racking, filtration and bottling will be explored. Lab space limits the class size. Early enrollment is encouraged.

• Event Organizer: UC Davis Extension
• Venue: RMI Winery, Robert Mondavi Institute for Food & Wine
• Address: Old Davis Rd.   Davis, CA   95616
• Time: 8 am
• Website: extension.ucdavis.edu/winemaking
• Phone: (800) 752-0881
• Email:
• Cost: $375. Enroll in section 121VIT217.
• Available languages: English