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Organization
- Reorganization of the AWGA and the establishement of formal and legal bylaws
- Establishment of the Master Grower Wine Levy Program
- 400%+ increase in the annual budget
- Addition of Association General Counsel and Lobbyist, Robert Lynch and Associates
- 160% increase in membership
- Addition of new vice-president officer positions to represent all three growing areas
Advocacy Marketing and Public Relations
- Awarded Specialty Crop Marketing Grant of $147,000 from USDA in 2002
- Development of a new Arizona Wines logo for use by Master Grower members to identify Arizona made and grown.
Development and launch of www.arizonawine.org Attracts over 7,000 individual monthly visitors
- Passed SB1276 in 2006, providing new wine law for Arizona Farm Wineries. Allows Direct Shipping, Self Distribution, Multiple Licenses, and much more
- New wine law upheld in Federal Court in 2008
- Worked with Arizona Highways, Arizona Republic, Phoenix Magazine, PBS, Growing Magazine and many other publications and media on features about Arizona Wine
- Conduct an Industry Tasting each year at the Unified Grape Syposium in Sacramento
- Established the Arizona Wine Festival at the Tempe Festival of the Arts
- Conduct the Governor's Choice Awards Program
Industry Growth
- 400%+ increase in sales by Arizona wineries since 2003
- Licensed Farm Wineries have increased form 9 to 38 since 2002
- Acreage over 500 in producing wine grapes
- National and International recoginition of quality
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