{"id":23550,"date":"2013-07-24T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=23550"},"modified":"2013-07-24T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:48:51","slug":"ccovi-advisor-to-be-inducted-into-the-canadian-agriculture-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/07\/ccovi-advisor-to-be-inducted-into-the-canadian-agriculture-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"CCOVI adviser to be inducted into the Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23552\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/donald-ziraldo.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23552\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23552\" title=\"donald-ziraldo\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/donald-ziraldo-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Ziraldo, who was instrumental in establishing CCOVI, will be inducted into the Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame in November. \" width=\"504\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Ziraldo, who was instrumental in establishing CCOVI, will be inducted into the Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame in November. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Donald Ziraldo, an adviser to Brock&#8217;s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI), is one of four individuals announced as the latest inductees into the <a title=\"Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cahfa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ziraldo is a pioneer of the Canadian wine industry, putting domestically produced wines on the map in Canada and around the world. He is being recognized as the co-founder of <a title=\"Inniskillin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inniskillin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inniskillin winery<\/a>, the driving force behind the <a title=\"VQA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vqaontario.com\/Home\" target=\"_blank\">Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) program <\/a>and for his instrumental role in establishing CCOVI. He is a member of CCOVI&#8217;s executive and advisory committee and also co-chaired the capital campaign that founded the wine institute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great honour,&#8221; said Ziraldo, &#8220;and an acknowledgement to an agriculture sector &#8211; viticulture &#8211; that takes a product from the soil, through the processing stage, packaging and creates a value-added finished product: wine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe this value-added concept will be important to the future success of agriculture and it respects the provenance of the food farmers grow, which is very important to the consumer,&#8221; Ziraldo added.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame honours and celebrates Canadians for outstanding contributions to the agriculture and food industry. The induction ceremony will be held Nov. 3, 2013 at the <a title=\"Royal Winter Fair\" href=\"http:\/\/www.royalfair.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a well-deserved honour for Donald,&#8221; CCOVI Director Debbie Inglis said. &#8220;It recognizes the pivotal role he played in shaping the current Canadian wine industry and his foresight in seeing the value research plays in developing an industry by establishing CCOVI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ziraldo was also recognized earlier this year with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal. The award recognized 60,000 extraordinary Canadians on the 60th anniversary of the Queen&#8217;s ascension to the throne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Ziraldo, an advisor to Brock&#8217;s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI), is one of four individuals announced as the latest inductees into the Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":23552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[1189,61,1187,1188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23556,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions\/23556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}