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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.
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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.”
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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
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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
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• 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
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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
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• 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.