Vinovation

Vinovation
1446 Industrial Ave
Sebastopol, California
USA 95472
Phone: (707) 824-7900
http://www.vinovation.com/

Contact: Clark Smith
Email: [email protected]

Co-owner Clark Smith left M.I.T. in 1971, and has been in the California wine industry ever since. After graduating U.C. Davis in 1983, he became the founding winemaker for the R.H. Phillips Vineyard, taking it from 3,000 cases per year to 250,000. In 1990, he began WineSmith Consulting, and in 1992, patented VA reduction and alcohol adjustment applications of reverse osmosis and, with Rick Jones, established Vinovation to commercialize them. Clark leads our efforts to support winery clients in optimum use of our technologies and to develop new tools and products to address their needs.

Clark served as President of the Trellis Alliance (wine industry support group for the Dept of Vit & Eno at Davis), instructs at Napa Valley College, U.C. Davis Extension, Fresno State University and Missouri State University on Wine Chemistry Fundamentals, serves as a wine judge, and regularly contributes technical articles to trade periodicals and scientific journals. His research contributions to winemaking include night harvesting, strategies to minimize sulfites, control of Brettanomyces, cork aroma taint, and vineyard effects on wine quality. Clark is also the winemaker for Grapecraft Wines. Clark can be reached at [email protected]

Winemaker: Tom Milligan

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