ess/careers .V ' . n *■ f ; V-; ; ,i •; rit; <, r*-'o.;. f z- , - < '. J :v/. •> • r.' ; •. /: . f-- v ' ‘ i/V*. . -< •' '>' * ■,• „:v • ■ :T t * . : •/ ;%ui-t -; *■ l'j ' »s?‘ ‘ ‘AV. ~ -?v ; V^Y'r' .* ■ The total process of winemaking is fol lowed step-by-step by Marina and Tom Mebane, owners of the Nittany Valley Winery, 724 S. Atherton St. One of the first steps involves separating the grape stems from the grapes, so the fruit can be pressed. Marina Mebane, one of the winery’s owners, and her mother, Barba ra (right), are shown here raking Millot grapes from Erie into a stem separater, at top left. Next the finished wine is bottled, as demonstrated by Tom Me bane at the winery’s bottle corker, at left middle. Some of the local vintage for sale at the shop is named after aspects of a lion, as the Larmes du Lion, or Tears of the Lion, and Coeur du Lion, or Heart of the Lion, at bottom. The final test, at right', is given by customer Brian Halgas (i)th-secondary education), who samples a white wine. h m? •U' * * ’ . ’’ rsM\y& I j n Vib‘; ‘v\V •*vj ' 4?* feu'.. . 7* i'fe* f Local winery By BILL GABOR Daily Collegian Staff Writer Most wine drinkers recognize the names Riunite, Paul Masson and Ingle nook. But few are familiar with Larmes Du Lion, Seyval Blanc and Ris Du Lion. While the wines such as Paul Masson have beeii bottled for more than 100 years and have been sold nationwide, Larmes Du Lion, Seyval Blanc and Ris Du Lion have been produced and bottled for about a year and are sold only in the Centre Region. Nittany Valley Winery, 724 S. Atherton St., is a family-owned and -run operation that makes Larmes Du Lion and the other local wines. Tom and Marina Me bane own the winery and Frank R. Johns, Marina’s father, is the winemak er. When the Mebanes first began making wine in early Fall 1980, they had no previous experience in winemaking except what they had read in books and had learned by talking to other winemak ers, Johns said. Last Winter they renovated the store, formerly a dairy, and began bottling their first vintage of wine last Spring. The winery officially opened July 1. “There was an immense satisfaction when the winery officially opened,” he said. “It was the Arts Festival weekend and we were just swamped with people. It was a real madhouse.” ' Since then, the business has done very well and has already developed many regular customers, Mrs. Mebane said. “Since we opened, most of the people preferred the apple and rose wines,” she said. “We sold out both types of these wines and we had to tell the people we wouldn’t have anymore until the next batch was ready to be bottled about two months.” Mrs. Mebane said the winery started as a hobby. She said her husband had a love and interest for wines. He lived in California for five years and had also lived in Europe so he had a lot of expo sure to wines and had learned a lot about them, she said. ' The Mebanes were going to buy a winery that produced wine already on the market, but the deal didn’t work out. VTt was a big gamble for us to open our own winery,” she said. “It was a great challenge to us and we get a lot of satisfaction working with the public. “We hope to reach a point where the business can support itself financially,” Mrs. Mebane said. “We want to hire more employees so we don’t have to devote all of our time to the winery. I think this is going to come about.” The Mebanes’ white, red, rose and apple wines are sold only at the store on Atherton Street. Local winery hails the Nittany Lion By BILL GABOR . Daily Collegian Staff Writer The Nittany Lion has been immortalized on baby bottles, tote bags, T-shirts and -keychains, and now this symbol of Penn State is even on a bottle of wine. Several of the wines produced by Tom and Marina Mebanes, owners of the Nittany Valley Winery, 724 S. Atherton St. are named after some aspect of a lion. The first type is called Larmes Du Lion, or tears of the lion. This wine is a semi-dry white wine that contains 1 percent sugar. Larmes Du Lion is made of three varietals (the particular grape in the wine). Federal law requires that wine consists of 51 percent of the grape on the label, with the rest of the wine being made up of filler grapes. As a result, when someone buys a bottle of wine and then buys the same, brand again, the wine may taste different because the winemaker might have put in a different filler grape the second time, Marina Mebane said. After Jan. 1, 1983, winemakers will be required to put 75 percent of the grape on the label in the wine, she said. The three varietals in the Larmes Du Lion are: Seyval Blanc A big gamble pays off They said they have hot tried to sell their wine in state liquor stores because if it were sold in State College stores, it would have, to be sold in state stores in Pennsylvania. And if that happened, they said, they could lose control of their business. Although their wine is not sold state wide and they don’t have a lot of modern machinery, the Mebanes said they get a lot of satisfaction from winemaking. The winemaking process starts with obtaining the grapes, Mrs. Mebane said. Most of the grapes the JMebanes use in their wines come from Erie, although 'Being a smaller winery I feel we give more personal touch.' they also get some from Lancaster. The grapes come in one-ton bins and are put into a crusher that separates the grapes from the leaves and the stems. Mrs. Mebane said they received six tons of grapes in their first delivery and 18 tons, in their second delivery. The Mebanes paid about $36,000 for their grapes this year, she said. After the grapes are crushed, they are put into a fermentation tank for storage, Mrs. Membane said. All the wines are fermented dry until there is no sugar in them. Sugar, if needed, is added later to sweeten the wine, she said. The fermentation process takes about four to five days for red wines and two weeks for white wines. Red wines are fermented warm and the whites are kept cold to ensure a good fruity flavor. Next, the skins and pulp from the fermentation process go to a press where the juice is squeezed from them. This juice, which is cloudy because of the sediments from the skins and pulp, is put with the free juice in a new tank. The skins, pulp and seeds are discarded. Next, the clarification process re moving the sediments from the wine begins. During this process, racking takes place. The wine sits in a storage tank for several weeks and is then pumped into a separate tank. Each time the wine switches tanks, some sediment is left behind. After this process is re peated two or three times, the wine is clear enough to be filtered and bottled. - The Mebanes are experimentirig with a process called centrifuging that they . hope will speed up the clarification proc ess and also increase the amount of wine produced per ton of grapes from. 150 gallons to 250 gallons. in the pink (dry), Vidal Blanc (dry) and Ravat (dry). These varietals are also sold as wine. A second type of wine is Ris Du Lion, or laugh of the lion. This is a semi-dry rose wine. The rose wine is considered a white wine because it is fermented just like a white wine. It consists of the varietal De Chaiinac. Another wine the Mebanes sell is Coeur Du Lion" or heart of the lion, a semi-sweet red wine which contains 3 percent sugar. This wine also is made from the varietal De Chaunac, but the varietal is sweetened. A fourth type of wine the Mebanes sell is an apple wine called Pomme de l’oeil du Lion, or apple of the lion’s eye. This is a semi-sweet apple wine and also contains 3 percent sugar. The Mebanes have an apple wine made from an apple juice blend of tart apples, supplied by Harner Farms, 2191 W. Whitehall Road. The farms cut up the apples into tiny pieces, then put the pulp into a hydraulic press that squeezes the pulp until it is dry. The resulting juice is called cider, which is supplied to the winery. Frank R. Johns, winemaker for the winery, said, “We don’t have the proper equipment here to crush the apples. I’m not sure the wine press would do a very good job.” The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 15 “We hope to reduce the clarification process to where we would only have to rack once,” Johns said. “Not many wine ries use this process. During the centrifuge process, the wines pass through a centrifuge which spins very fast, he said. The debris spins to the outside and the liquid flows into the middle. “Last year we lost 10 percent of the wine in lees the sediment in the bottom of the tank after the racking process,” he said. “We expect to reclaim a good bit through the centrifuge.” After the clarification process, the —Marina Mebane wine goes to cold stabilization, Johns said. They cool the wine to about 20 degrees Fahrenheit and let it sit for a couple of weeks. The cold stabilization eliminates the tartaric acid and changes it into tartraits, he said. “This is really cream of tartar sauce and some of the big wineries actually sell it,” Johns said. After the cold stabilization process, the wine is ready for bottling. To do this, Mrs. Mebane explained, they set up an assembly line in which five people work. The first person places the bottles into the bottle filler that can fill four bottles at a time. The second person puts the bottle on the corker and a pair of prongs pushes the cork into the bottle. The third person puts on the capsules the covering over the cork extending down the neck of the bottle. This is done by hand. The fourth person labels the bottles. The labels are put in a stack on a labeling machine where glue is heated to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The glue is put on the back of the labels and then placed on the bottle. The fifth person then boxes the bottles. “It usually takes us six hours to bottle the tvihe and we do about 2,880 bottles during this time,” Mrs. Mebane said. The Mebanes make their wine in a five room building adjacent to the store. Despite being small in size, Mrs. Me bane doesn’t think there is any difference between the Nittany Valley Winery and the larger wineries. “The larger wineries started out the same way we are starting out,” she said. “Being a smaller winery I feel we give the wine a more personal touch.” collegian notes • Interfraternity Council Dance Marathon applica tions for dancer sign-up are now available in the IFC office in 203-B HUB. • Phi Beta' Lambda professional business fraternity will fneet at 8:30 tonight in the HUB Assembly Hall. • Final interviews for student counselors will take place today in 324 HUB. • The Conversant Program is looking for American volunteers to meet with international students for a few hours each week. Come to 305 Sparks for more informa tion or call 863-1604. • Free U will offer The Satisfying Vegetarian Cook • The Pollock-Nittany Residence Hall Association „ * The Anthropology Club, A.P.E.S., will sponsor c «“ r se at 6 tonight m 207 S. Human Development, will go caroling at 7:30 tonight. Meet in the Pollock o ar l fL Gottli l el ? , lec l uril J g o ? n genehc demography on # Late ap pj ications for student coun selor positions Union Building Rec Room. Songbooks will be provided ' G !‘ annel Islands at 8 tomght in the Ant hropology wiU be acc^ted until 5 m Friday in the P Student and hot chocolate will be served afterwards. Museum. Assistance Center, 135 Boucke • Eco-Action will have an information table today in • The East Halls Towers Resident Assistants are • The mountaineering division of the Outing Club the HUB basement to promote public awareness of a sponsoring an educational and developmental program will hold a divisional meeting and seminar on ice potential cutoff in U.S. funding for the United Nations at 8 tonight in 106 Fisher Hall. Edward Wickersham will climbing equipment and trips, and will show a movie on Environment program. • speak on sexual awareness in an academic community, mountain rescue at 7:30 tonight in 214 Boucke. Budget Squeeze: Area United Way groups tighten belts By JIM WICKIZER Daily Collegian Staff Writer . Federal and state budget cuts will have a dramatic effect on some United Way member organizations, the executive director of the Centre County United Way said. Dennis Kulchycki said the agency expects 15 or 16 of the 28 organizations that make up the United Way to be affected by the cuts because some United Way members receive federal or state money in addition to private donations. “Mental health, community nursing and the home health services will feel the cutbacks the most,” Kulchycki said. A significant number of people will not get services as a result of the cuts, he added. Stuart Stock, staff coordinator for On Drugs, said the 24-hour drug and alcohol crisis center had experienced some cuts even before Reagan took f mmm mmm mmm mmm ... /me Pepsi! j THE TOWERS PROGRAM TONIGHT TENER HALL PRESENTS: Sexual A wareness in the Academic Environment presented by Dr, Wickersham Held in 106 Fisher Hall at 8:30 p.m. The World Agriculture Service Society presents A PEACE CORPS FORUM Featuring former volunteers and their feelings about their sevice. Tuesday December 15 R 2 Bi 7:30 p.m. 112Armsby m M H m jMlSllKtlffll The Career ....... PENN STRTE ■ MflRKI ™ 1981-1982 Career Night Sign Ups Dec. 16,17,18 executives from seven companies representing various fields in marketing s there will also be . - HUB basement 5 membership sign ups *1.50 charge Order any size pizza and get a 16 oz. Pepsi fora DIME. No coupon necessary Limit 4 per pizza. Limited time offer. Fast, Free Delivery , 421 E. Beaver 234-5655 MILLER FILM Come See This Thrilling Ski Movie by a Top Film Producer Wlwre: 102 Forum Theater When: Two showings on Tuesday, Dec. ISIh, 7.-00 a 9:15 p.m. Tickets sold at the door. ADULTS 3.00 - STUDENTS W/I.D. 2.00 Proceeds benefit “Frontlash” and Labor Studies. ADjSgontond by ttw Sklmont Ski School end o|>*flJngChri«lmu Holiday Wook. look to ul for OO LIONS BEAT USfOO LIONS BEAT USC AUSTRIA. SWITZERLAND. CANADA. COLORADO. IDAHO. FRANCE. SQUAW VALLEY. MAMMOTH. AUSTRALIA. NEW ZEALAND. MT. BAKER • The Centre County National Organization For Women will meet for elections and a short presentation on the Equal Rights Amendment at 7:30 tonight at Schlow Library. • The Society of Women Engineers will meet at 7 tonight in the Kunkle Activities lounge in Hammond Building for a Christmas celebration and general meet ing. • Penn State Students for Life will sponsor Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson speaking on human and civil rights at 8 tonight in the HUB Ballroom. office. The first wave of budget cuts have been coming in with a “trickling down" effect ever since, he added. When,the federal government cuts money given to the state, the state allocates less to the county and the county gives less to On Drugs, he said. The organization has three sources of funding: the University, the United Way and Centre County all have reduced or kept funding the same, Stock said. Stock added that $12,000 has been cut from the On Drugs budget in the first cut back. Also, money for the counseling and educational advis er, funded by the Comprehensive Educational and Training Act, was not re-alloted. “We started before the cuts with a staff consist ing of a full-time director, a three-person coordi nating staff that worked 15 hours a week, and an administrative staff that manned our 24-hour m HI InmOoixit! THE SCORPION CALDER WAY WITH "KIKKIN IN" Al yj c °' I kin tare copras •mtou from Penn Town) ZJfl-COPY tjKo WITH RED ROSE COTILLION TONIGHT AT THE , urn 4 M m, H m M • The Penn State Amateur Radio Club is accepting Christmas radiograms from 9 to 4 on the ground floor of the HUB. Radiograms can be sent free of charge to anywhere in the .United States or Canada or to service men overseas. The recipient does not have to have a radio. . • The Paul Robeson Cultural Center will sponsor Howard Hall, assistant professor of psychology, to conduct a workshop on Assertive Training for Minori ties at 7:30 tonight in the Walnut Building Conference Room. hotline,” Stock said. Before the cuts, everyone on the staff received medical benefits, and the administrative staff, which manned Hie hotline, received minimum wage plus incentives, Stock said. “After the cuts the full-time director had to be changed to ! a triple-coordinator system, where two of us work 30 hours a week and one of us works 15 hours a week,” Stock said. “All benefits were cut from everybody, and the administrative staff incentives were also cut. “They used to have five people here at a time, but after the cuts we have just two people and sometimes only one.” “We are treading water as fast as we can,” Stock said, “And we’re slowly sinking.” A $1,500 grant from a private donor and other private donations have helped a little, but additio nal cuts could be disastrous, Stock said. HH' STUDENT DISCOUNTS! TRS 80 COMPUTERS ' CAPPERELLA BROS. Radio Shack Dealer Stereos, Radios, Complete line of electronics BELLEFONTE RT. 144 N. 355-2381 DRIVE TO BELLEFONTE AND SAVE Her career has included posts with the United States National Commis sion on the Observance of World Population, the Governor’s Commis sion on Human and Clinical Investi gation and Experimental Therapy of Strawberry Fields, an agency that deals with the mentally retarded, has been able to sustain its programs after the first rounds of federal cuts, but has not been able to expand its programs, said Diana Marshall, executive director. “We have no new programs, and we had to cut 6ur employees’ fringe benefits,” Marshall said. The most important effect is the loss of a parent program coordinator position that was funded by CETA, Marshall said. This coordinator helped parents of mentally retarded children adjust to community life and helped increase the quality of the child’s life, she said. If the second round of expected federal cuts comes through it would leave the agency in a “pretty grim state,” she said. “We would lose support services,” Marshall said. “It would make it extremely difficult for us Jefferson to speak on rights She is the first black woman grad uate of the Harvard Medical School and an undeclared candidate in the 1982 Massachusetts Senate race against Sen. Edward Kennedy ID- Mass). She is Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, a surgeon at the Boston University Medical Center,,a former president of the National Right to Life Committee and now president of the Right to Life Crusade. In a speech co-sponsored by Collo quy, Penn State Students for Life and College Republicans, Jefferson will discuss “On Human and Civil Rights” at 8 tonight in the HUB Ballroom. The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 15,1981—7 the Commonwealth of Massachu-I setts, and her resume includes honor-* ary degrees from 23 universities. ' “We feel it’s our responsiblity as a campus pro-life group to bring in the most intellectual, capable speakers to address this issue which is a very important issue,” said Penn State Students for Life Vice President Don Adams. Dilliard said Students for Life was the organization that originally wanted to bring Jefferson to campus, but College Republicans and Colloquy also took an interest. Jefferson has been given credit for convincing President Reagan to sup port the Human Life Ammendment, Adams said. She has also served on numerous committees and has been included on the board of directors of several right-to-life organizations. —by Ellen Harley to compete for jobs for the mentally retarded.” Marshall said social security cuts could force many of the adult mentally retarded to fight for survival. “They only get $290 a month from social securi ty and some have to pay a $l6O to $lBO a month for rent,” Marshall said. “They would be unable to eat, or buy lightbulbs or anything else. ‘ ‘The cuts would leave many adults on their own in Centre County. They would be put out on the street or worse places.” The Youth Services Bureau, an agency that helps youths find jobs, has suffered a $10,288 cut in its budget, but has absorbed the cut without laying off staff and without cutting services, Director Norma Keller said. Keller said any further significant cut backs would affect services to children and cause the loss of a staff position.