California's leading winemakers and wine scholars are teaming up with their counterparts from Oregon and France's famed Burgundy region to share experiences, taste fine wines and present innovative research in world-class winemaking. The second Joint Burgundy-California-Oregon Winemaking symposium will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, and Tuesday, Feb. 9, in UC Davis' Freeborn Hall. Like the first such symposium, held in 1997 in Dijon, France, the gathering is designed for professional winemakers as well as novices with an interest in Burgundian winemaking. "The symposium was very well received in Burgundy," said Christian Butzke, Cooperative Extension enologist in the UC Davis viticulture and enology department and chair of the symposium. "It was a breakthrough event to get winemakers and scientists from Burgundy, California and Oregon together to share ideas." The two-day event will feature 13 winemakers and scientists from Burgundy sharing their art and science of fine winemaking. The Burgundian speakers, complemented by distinguished winemakers and researchers from California and Oregon, will discuss topics related to the making of great wines. Each winemaker's presentation will be accompanied by a joint tasting of a specially-selected wine. Offered through University Extension, UC Davis, and co-sponsored by the American Vineyard Foundation, the symposium is intended to foster international exchange, enhance cooperation between vintners and researchers, and improve global winemaking expertise.