The American Vineyard Foundation (
Abbreviation
An abbreviation (from Latin ''brevis'', meaning ''short'') is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word ''abbrevia ...
: AVF) is an American non-profit public charity which aims to improve the
American wine industry through research. It was founded by
Zelma Long
Zelma R. Long (born 1945) is an American enologist and vintner. She is considered to be one of the female pioneers in California wine, and was the first woman to assume senior management of a Californian winery, Simi Winery, of which she was presi ...
to help finance research in enology and viticulture; Long also founded the
American Viticulture and Enology Research Network (AVERN).
Justin Meyer
Justin Meyer (born Raymond Meyer, 11 November 19386 August 2002) was an American vintner, enologist, and monk of the Christian Brothers. He was the founder along with Raymond Twomey Duncan of Silver Oak Cellars in 1972, a successful winery based ...
was head of the foundation in the 1990s.
Jim Frisinger has been chairman of the AVF since 2010.
It has its headquarters in
Napa, California. The foundation relies on private donors, mainly from winemakers; in 2003 they managed to get 808 competing grapegrowers and vintners to contribute $1,178,652.97 to fund cooperative research;
however, in the past they have often failed to make $1 million annually.
In recent years they have invested in research into wine production in the states of Washington, Oregon, Texas and Virginia.
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American wine
Organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Napa, California
Food and drink in the San Francisco Bay Area
California wine organizations
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