TheAmerican Vineyard Foundation (AVF) is an American non-profit public charity which aims to improve theAmerican wine industry through research. It was founded byZelma Long to help finance research in enology and viticulture; Long also founded theAmerican Viticulture and Enology Research Network (AVERN).[1]Justin Meyer was head of the foundation in the 1990s.Jim Frisinger has been chairman of the AVF since 2010.[2] It has its headquarters inNapa, California. The foundation relies on private donors, mainly from winemakers; in 2003 they managed to get 808 competing grapegrowers and vintners to contribute $1,178,652.97 to fund cooperative research;[3] however, in the past they have often failed to make $1 million annually.[4] In recent years they have invested in research into wine production in the states of Washington, Oregon, Texas and Virginia.[5]
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