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July 31, 2015
People & Places
Winemaker sees more women active in industry
Sandy Walheim says
opportunities are
available in many
facets of the business
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Sandy Walheim, winemaker at Francis Ford Coppola winery in Geyserville, Calif., says women are making inroads into winemaking, but
there are still challenges.
Western Innovator
Sandy Walheim
Occupation: Winemaker, Francis
Ford Coppola Winery
Family: Husband, Mark
Hometown: Healdsburg, Calif.
Quote: “I can’t ask for anything more from winemaking as a
career. It’s art and science, different every vintage, and the end
product — wine — is one of the best things to share with friends
and family.”
women this is a rewarding ca-
reer path — although you never
take a vacation in the fall.”
But the industry still has a
way to go when it comes to the
number of women in winemak-
ing.
Walheim estimates from her
attendance of technical confer-
ences that only about 15 percent
of winemakers are women.
Women are much more
prevalent in other areas of the
industry.
“Wine is a business and there
are many avenues other than
winemaking,” she said. “These
fields include finance, hospitali-
ty, marketing, food, farming and
executive positions.”
However, she added, “...
Women vineyard managers are
a rare breed. These are the ones
who source grapes, manage the
vineyards, negotiate contracts,
decide crucial logistics and keep
growers on track.”
Walheim said one thing she
learned working in the cellar is
how to do things alone — how
to move things and be innova-
tive.
“I think women tend to be
more nurturing and embrace the
team aspect of work,” she said.
“My philosophy is get good
people around you and not to be
threatened by them.”
Corey Beck, president and
director of winemaking at Cop-
pola Winery, acknowledged
Walheim’s craft and contribu-
tion.
“Sandy is coming up on her
10th vintage with us at Cop-
pola and during this time she’s
been instrumental in developing
brands such as Director’s Cut
and Francis Coppola Reserve,”
he said. “She has a penchant for
grapes grown in Sonoma Coun-
ty and this passion is expressed
in all wines that she creates.”
Coppola Winery also has a
program linked to nearby Wind-
sor High School through its
agriculture department where
students — male and female —
can experience many aspects of
the wine industry and learn the
importance of such subjects as
chemistry and math, Walheim
said.
Though women have made
great strides in winemaking,
there’s still a long way to go.
“In spite of the advance-
ments, women are under served,
and the diversity in this business
is not great, and I don’t know
why,” she said. “But, one thing
at a time.”
Celebrating a 45th birthday with two cylinders
By RYAN M. TAYLOR
For the Capital Press
Cowboy
Logic
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Ryan Taylor
OWNER, N.D. — They
say it’s hard to shop for a
guy who has everything.
I’m far from being a guy who
has everything, but I have the
important things — good health,
a loving family, loyal friends
and caring neighbors, plenty to
eat, a roof over my head that
doesn’t leak, books to read and
things to do that I like doing.
Sure, I don’t have a yacht,
or a motor home, or a million
airline miles and double plat-
inum flying status, but things
have worked out pretty good for
me. So when my wife and kids
asked what I’d like to have for
my 45th birthday, I told them I’d
like to have a strap for my guitar
since I didn’t have one. They got
me a nice one.
But I also got myself a pres-
ent that was more than two
years in the making, or maybe
75 years in the making actually.
Long, green line
Dad was always a John
Deere guy, or, more precisely, a
two-cylinder motor John Deere
guy. You could say he had the
“long, green line,” but some
weren’t so green. Like the Mod-
el A that caught fire and burned
most of the paint off. That one
was rust colored with just a little
green left around the gear shift-
er.
I strayed to other useful trac-
tors of other colors with more
than two cylinders in their en-
gines, but Dad lived 88 years,
ranched for 70 of them, and nev-
er owned a tractor that wasn’t a
“Johnny popper.”
When he needed the big
horsepower, he started the pony
motor, pushed the compression
lever forward and brought the
mighty R diesel to life. When
he needed something a little
more nimble, he had a variety
of tricycle-fronted A’s and B’s to
choose from. If it was the mod-
ern advance of power steering
and live PTO power he desired,
he had his pride and joy, a John
Deere 60.
In Dad’s lineup out in the
pasture, though, I also noticed
two little H John Deeres. They
were as cute as a bug, but they
weren’t in use from the time I
can remember being a part of
the hay crew.
Whenever I asked Dad about
the H’s, he’d say they weren’t
much good for anything — too
small, no hydraulics, no mod-
ern PTO shaft. He’d only used
them on a couple of horse rakes
that could be tripped by hand. I
guess once a fella has seen the
glorious modernity of the 60,
you can get a little snobbish to-
wards the lowly 12-horsepower
Model H.
Restored and running
Two years ago, I donated
those two Model H tractors to a
group of mechanically minded
college students, helped fund
the restoration project, and, the
week before my birthday, they
donated one back to me all
green and yellow and shiny.
I got it home, gave the fly-
wheel a spin, and those two
cylinders built in 1940 found
the spark, ignited the gas, and
took their turns firing with that
familiar sound forever locked
in my memory, “bup, bup, bup,
bup.”
I drove it off the trailer, grin-
ning from ear to ear like a kid
who’d just gotten the grandest
new toy he’d ever asked to have
for his birthday.
While Dad might have con-
sidered the H a bit useless as
a haying tractor, it’s probably
best that I chose the H for resto-
ration. If it was any bigger, and
had hydraulics and a PTO, I’d
probably have it hooked up to
a 9-foot mower or a wheel rake
for daily use in the hayfield,
fading the paint and getting it
grimy.
The H, however, should stay
nice and clean and parade-ready
for a long time to come. Happy
old green iron birthday to me!
Scientists show we have a distinct taste for fat
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Move over sweet and salty: Re-
searchers say we have a distinct
and basic taste for fat, too.
But it’s nowhere near as de-
licious as it sounds.
They propose expanding
our taste palate to include fat
along with sweet, salty, bitter,
sour and relative newcomer
umami.
A research team at Purdue
University tested look-alike
mixtures with different tastes.
More than half of the 28 special
tasters could distinguish fatty
acids from the other tastes, ac-
cording to a study published in
the journal Chemical Senses.
Past research showed fat
had a distinct feel in the mouth,
but scientists removed texture
and smell clues and people
could still tell the difference.
“The fatty acid part of
taste is very unpleasant,”
study author Richard Mattes,
a Purdue nutrition science
professor, said Thursday. “I
haven’t met anybody who
likes it alone. You usually get
a gag reflex.”
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By JULIA HOLLISTER
GEYSERVILLE, Calif. —
Sandy Walheim, winemaker at
Francis Ford Coppola Winery,
discovered as a college student
the wine industry and the many
opportunities it offers for wom-
en.
“I was studying chemistry
at University of California-San
Diego but decided I didn’t want
to be in pure science,” she said.
“A friend told me about the myr-
iad of applied science programs
including fermentation science,
agriculture and engineering at
UC-Davis. I said I can do this.
I realized I like to make things
and there are not many careers
where you get to make tangible
things.”
One of her first jobs after
college was at a small family
winery in the Santa Cruz Moun-
tains. It was all hands-on. Wal-
heim built and washed barrels,
worked in the laboratory and in
the vineyards. The winemaker
was one of the first to ferment
wine without yeast and bottle
single vintages. An appealing
draw for Walheim was that
winemaking is tied to the earth
and to the seasons. Every year
is unique and the grapes are re-
flective of the place they were
grown.
“A winemaker’s job is to re-
tain the good things,” she said.
The growth of the number
of women involved in the wine
industry is remarkable, she said.
“There are more women in
winemaking today than when I
began. We are less of a novelty
thanks to the prominent women
in the wine business,” she said.
“This factor helps show young
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