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Akin Gurbuz earned his Bachelor Degree in Viticulture and Enology from University of California, Davis. Grown up in a grapegrower family, he gained hands on experiences with vineyards and winemaking. Akin Gurbuz provides a broad selection of winemaking, winery establishment and viticultural consulting services.
Winemaking
With experience in many of the world’s finest wine growing regions including Californa, New Zealand, Mexico and Turkey, and knowledge of all aspects of the wine business, Akin Gurbuz offers an array of wine services, which include:
- Assist in the evaluation of redeveloping an existing winery or assess the feasibility of new winery construction
- Winery Start-up and construction of a winery project
- Develop wine brands and styles for selected markets
- Provide a complete consulting services in premium wine winemaking.
- Provide wine sensory evaluations
- Work with clients and buyers to develop new brands as well as bring existing brands into line with markets needs.
Vineyards
Comprehensive vineyard consulting packages and services are available for experienced, new and prospective grape growers. A wine grape vineyard is a very costly long-term investment. Without careful and experienced site selection, business planning, vineyard development and management, a vineyard cannot turn a profit. An efficiently managed, profitable vineyard is essential to long term business sustainability.
- Evaluations of potential vineyard sites for owners and prospective purchasers
- Vineyard design & establishment
- Vineyard development, planning and scheduling
- Comprehensive evaluations of existing vineyards
- Optimization of viticultural practices to improve wine grape fruit quality
- All aspects of vineyard management
- Nutrition, pathology, and entomology investigations
- Vineyard employee training
Laboratory
Offers full service lab and consulting for home and commercial winemaking.
- Design and set up a winemaking laboratory
- Create wine and juice analysis methods
- Train the laboratory staff for analysis methods and procedures
