11th annual Winkler Dinner

The student group DEVO — Davis Enology and Viticulture Organization — presents the 11th annual Winkler Dinner on Saturday, May 14, promising "delightful company, mouthwatering food and spectacular wine."

Live and silent auctions will accompany the dinner — and the entire event serves as DEVO's annual fundraiser in support of such student activities as wine tastings and alumni events, and immersion trips to various wine regions, as well as scholarships for international internships.

The dinner is scheduled to run from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Sciences. The organizers said top chefs will prepare a six-course dinner, to be paired with wines from six California wineries, with the winemakers on hand to introduce their wines.

For many years, the dinner took place under the Winkler Vine, an impressive California Mission grapevine that once spread over a one-half acre arbor. The vine was named in memory of the late Albert J. Winkler, chair of the Department of Viticulture and Enology from 1935 to 1957.

This will be the third year that the Winkler Dinner will be held in the RMI courtyard. Meanwhile, two new grapevines are being prepared for planting in honor of Winkler and the late Harold Olmo, a pioneering grape breeder and professor of viticulture and enology at UC Davis.

The cost is $175 per person, or $1,200 for a full table of eight. Tickets are available online.

'Don't Put Your Name on the Label'

So says William S. “Bill” Price III in the title for his talk in the Walt Klenz Lecture Series at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.

Here is the full title: "Don't Put Your Name on the Label: Hard-Earned Lessons About Making Wine in the Wine Business." As for Price, his title is owner, Sonoma Valley's Durell Vineyard.

His talk is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday, April 18, in the RMI's Sensory Theatre, and a reception is planned afterward. Admission is free and open to the public; registration is required and can be arranged online (look for the link below).

Treasury Wine Estates (formerly Beringer Blass Wine Estates) established the Walt Klenz Lecture Series in honor of the winery's former chief executive officer, in recognition of his many contributions to the wine industry. Lectures focus on the business of wine and are aimed at students with the goal of giving them a glimpse of the many facets of the wine industry, based on the speaker’s expertise.

Registration and more information.

East Quad Farmers Market

The East Quad Farmers Market is back for spring quarter! The market is open from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. every Wednesday, through June 1.

Health Education and Promotion, part of Student Health Services, joined with several other university units in launching the market in the fall of 2007, in the wake of survey data showing that many students were not adhering to the federal government's recommendations for the intake of fruits and vegetables.

The latest survey data, from 2009, indicated that more than 60 percent of UC Davis students ate two or fewer servings of nutrition-packed fruits and vegetables a day. The government recommends seven to nine servings a day for the average student, according to Health Education and Promotion, which notes that the specific recommendation for each person is dependent on gender, height, weight and activity level.

Figuring that students may not have time to get off campus to buy fruits and veggies, Health Education and Promotion and its partners decided to bring the market to the students — and staff and faculty, too. The market operates weekly during fall and spring quarters.

Whenever the market is open, Health Education and Promotion is there, at a table, educating students, staff and faculty on the importance of eating fruits and vegetables — and offering East Quad Farmers Market buttons and prizes: Spin the prize wheel, answer a true-false question, and walk away with an East Quad Farmers Market tote bag, a flying disc, a pad of paper and a pen, or a $1 voucher to use at the farmers market.

New this quarter: The "frequent buyer card," available at the Health Education and promotion table. Buy something on five market days, get your card stamped, and receive an entry in a drawing (to be conducted at the end of the quarter) for a gift basket from the Davis Farmers Market.

Health Education and Promotion's partners in the East Quad Farmers Market: the ASUCD Coffee House, ASUCD Environmental Policy and Planning Commission, Campus Recreation, Campus Unions, Davis Farmers Market Foundation, Davis Food Co-op and University Dining Services.

More information is available online. Once you get to the website, you will have the option of signing up for weekly e-mail reminders about the market.