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In 2011 for the first time, George Mihaly - a founding board member of the Robert Feigin Memorial Scholarship Trust - ran introduction to winemaking course with three King David School students as part of the Robert Feigin Science Program. After a successful pilot, the program ran again in 2012.
Vintage 2012
Three Year 11 Chemistry students - Jared Stern, Genevieve Brott, Sarah Fink - and their teacher Angielette Atal, had the privilege of visiting Paradigm Hill in the Mornington Peninsula. During their initial visit, Dr George Mihaly introduced the group to his estate. The students had the opportunity to pick grapes, conduct sugar density tests using hydrometers and accurately calibrate a pH probe in order to determine the acidity of their samples of grape juice. They returned back to Melbourne with a bottle of freshly (hand) squeezed grape juice.
Vintage 2012 - Angie, Genevieve, Jared and Sarah
Vintage 2011
The course consisted of several sessions at his vineyard, Paradigm Hill on the Mornington Peninsula. The students first visited the school on 9 March 2011, when they participated in some of the fruit collectio, preparation and testing.
They returned to the vineyard on 21 March for an early morning grape harvest, and to learn in more detail about the chemisty of winemaking.
The group returned a third time to observe the pressing of the finished wine from the grape skins and once again, the testing of the finished wine.
George extracting a sample to test sugar level
George explaining the winemaking process to Shira, Dani and Shana
Shana mixing the fermenting grapes
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