Sustainable Farming and the Fine Wine Industry

From ISU News Service

Sustainable Farming and the Fine Wine Industry

Trent Preszler

Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6:00 PM

Campanile Room, Memorial Union 

 Trent Preszler is Chief Executive Officer of Bedell Cellars will present a lecture on sustainable farming and fine wine tonight at the Memorial Union.

Bedell Cellars pursues sustainability in all farming, winemaking, and business practices. They have been making sustainable wine since the company's inception in 1980. After joining Bedell as National Brand Manager, he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2006 and became CEO in 2010.

Now at age thirty-three, he is one of the youngest winery CEOs in the world and has led Bedell through its important brand, facility, and personnel transformations during Michael Lynne's ownership.

An active scholar in addition to running a winery, Preszler's writings have been published by Oxford University Press, the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, and the Huffington Post.

He is currently on the Board of Directors of Wine America and the New York Wine and Grape Foundation. He earned degrees in agriculture from Iowa State University, Edinburgh University (U.K.), and Cornell University, where he is now a Ph.D. Candidate in Viticulture.