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TENTH ANNUAL NAPA INSTITUTE CONFERENCE FINDING HOPE IN THE NEW AMERICA
AUGUST 14-15, 2020
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
PLEASE NOTE THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2020
OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES
LIVE EVENT
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Pacific
Napa Legal Institute Workshop Recent crises, new Supreme Court opinions, evolving legislation and federal aid programs, and economic pressures have placed the corporate and financial practices of faith-based nonprofits in the spotlight. Join Napa Legal Institute for a workshop on how faith-based nonprofits can respond to these changes and challenges. The workshop will focus on practical steps nonprofit leaders should take to protect their organizations and continue pursuing their God-given missions in light of current events in an increasingly secular world. Topics discussed will include:
• Opportunities to strengthen religious liberty protections for your organization;
• Updates to employment and corporate governance practices in light of new Supreme Court guidance;
• Methods to assess the soundness of your organization’s corporate and legal structure; and
• Creative solutions to develop your organization during times of crisis.
*This activity is free of charge; prior RSVP is required. RSVP for the Workshop Here
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Pacific
Trinitas Cellars Wine and Riedel Glassware Tasting We’ve teamed up with Trinitas Cellars and Riedel to bring you this unforgettable and informative virtual tasting, where you’ll not only get a chance to learn about stemware from a seasoned expert, but also acquire a professional Riedel wine glass set for an extraordinary value. This is your chance to put your taste buds to the test to learn firsthand just how much stemware matters. This tasting will be led by Trinitas Cellars Proprietor, Garrett Busch, along with Riedel Ambassador, Susan Durbrow. Garrett will educate guests about the featured wines, as Susan explains how each glass uniquely accentuates their aromatics and flavor. From novices, to the most seasoned connoisseurs, this seminar is not to be missed! *This activity requires additional registration and payment. Orders must be placed by midnight on August 9th to ensure delivery before the virtual tasting. Register/Purchase Your Tasting Kit Here
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
MORNING AGENDA
LIVE EVENT
7:30 a.m. Pacific
Holy Mass Livestreamed from Mission Dolores, San Francisco Celebrant: The Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco
9:00 a.m. Pacific
Conference Welcome by The Most Reverend Paul S. Coakley, Archbishop of Oklahoma City
ON-DEMAND
9:00 a.m. Pacific
Friday Morning Sessions Released
These sessions will be available to watch at your leisure from
9:00 a.m. Pacific until October 14, 2020.
Speaker Topic
Dr. John Bergsma Professor of Theology, Franciscan University of Steubenville
St. Paul Center Presents the Bible – Part 1 Introducing the New Testament: Understanding and Teaching the Scriptures The New Testament is a big book. Really, 27 books by 8 authors over a sixty-year span of writing. How can we simplify it to grasp it as a unity? Well, just four men are responsible for almost 90% of the text of the New Testament. Dr. Bergsma takes us through these biblical authors, using simple visual memory devices to help understand, and then teach, the big ideas of the New Testament effectively.
The Most Reverend Thomas J. Paprocki Bishop of Springfield
Social Shutdowns as an Extraordinary Means of Saving Human Life In the face of a pandemic, do we have a moral obligation to shut down our society, require people to stay at home, put employees out of work, send businesses into bankruptcy, impair the food supply chain, and prevent worshippers from going to church? Bishop Paprocki makes the case that doing so would be imposing unduly burdensome and extraordinary means. While some people may voluntarily adopt such means, only ordinary means that are not unduly burdensome are morally required to preserve life, both on the part of individuals as well as society as a whole.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
The Most Reverend Charles J. Brown Apostolic Nuncio to Albania
Pope Francis, Albania and the Call to Holiness Archbishop Charles Brown reflects on Pope Francis's call to
holiness from the standpoint of the experience of the Catholic
Church in Albania, where he is Apostolic Nuncio. The Catholics of
Albania kept their faith through almost 500 years of Ottoman rule
and then in the period of Communist dictatorship from 1945 until
1991. This experience provides the backdrop for presenting some of the themes found in the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis,
Gaudete et exsultate (19 March 2018).
Dr. Joshua Mitchell Professor of Political Theory,
Georgetown University
American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other
Afflictions of Our Time Identity politics is one of the great challenges of our time. It longs
for justice, but the justice it achieves is only accomplished by group
scapegoating. Identity politics borrows from the Christian idea that
"the sins of the world are taken away" by a scapegoat, but instead
of a divine scapegoat--Christ--identity politics offers up a mortal
scapegoat--the white heterosexual male. (Once he is humiliated
and purged, another group will be chosen as the necessary
scapegoat). Politics cannot return to its task of building a common world together as long as identity politics declares that the task of
politics is to repudiate the impure and elevate the innocents.
Fr. Ambrose Criste, O.Praem. Novice Master & Director of Formation, St. Michael’s Abbey
Our Lady's Role in the New Evangelization: Your Ongoing Conversion, Her Renewal of the World The great St. Bernard of Clairvaux famously said "Of Mary, never
enough!" (De Maria, numquam satis!) This year's Napa Institute
falls during the solemnity of Our Lady's Assumption into heaven,
and that gives us a great opportunity to sing Our Lady's praises for
a breakout session. We'll explore especially how She mediates all
the graces that Our Lord wants to give to us to help us along the
path to holiness. We'll see how She is the key to the conversion of
the whole world, beginning with each of us. Finally, we'll see how
calling upon Her most holy name, especially with Her Holy Rosary,
we can enter even more deeply into the Heart of Her Son, Our Lord.
Fr. Dominic Legge Director of the Thomistic
Institute
Grace in a Time of Anxiety Many people's spiritual lives have been upended by the pandemic
and the accompanying anxiety (and other negative emotions) it has
prompted. The classical Christian tradition gives us a very helpful
way to understand our fears and anxieties, and even can teach us
how, under the influence of God's grace, we can turn them into occasions for spiritual growth.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
Thomas F. Farr President, Religious Freedom
Institute
"Come Be My Light:" The Crisis of Religious Freedom in
the United States and Catholic Responsibility Religious freedom is under serious and increasing threat in the
United States. Opponents of the Church's teachings on marriage,
the family, love, sexuality, human nature, and true human dignity
and freedom are succeeding in portraying those teachings as
bigoted, hateful, and even racist. Religious freedom - the free
exercise of religion -- is increasingly being cast as a front for bigots
and haters. That message is being communicated not only by
politicians on the Left, but by major culture-forming institutions,
including our schools, corporations, sports, the media and even the medical profession.
The results are devastating for our religion and our nation. If
religious freedom is damaged or lost in America, where it has
reached its fullest expression in law and culture, it will impact
religious minorities, including Catholics, around the world.
What is to be done? What can you do? Tom Farr, President of the
Religious Freedom Institute in Washington DC, gives you his
prescription for regaining the culture. In short: be Catholic!
George Weigel Distinguished Senior Fellow,
Ethics and Public Policy Center
What Was Vatican II Really About? The debate over the meaning of the Second Vatican Council
continues throughout the world Church. George Weigel explores
why Pope St. John XXIII summoned Vatican II, what the Council
actually taught, and how the Council is best implemented today.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
AFTERNOON AGENDA
LIVE EVENT
12:00 p.m. Pacific
Where Do We Go from Here: How Do We Navigate These Waters as Faithful Catholics Who Want to Rebuild the Church? Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence & Director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University Interviewed by Daniel Mark, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University
12:45 p.m. Pacific
Religious Liberty Is Important, But It's Not Enough Followed by Q&A Ryan Anderson, William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation
1:30 p.m. Pacific
Unshakeable Kingdom Dr. Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute
ON-DEMAND
2:30 p.m. Pacific
Friday Afternoon Sessions Released
These sessions will be available to watch at your leisure from
2:30 p.m. Pacific until October 14, 2020.
Speaker Topic
Dr. Scott Hahn Professor of Biblical Theology
and the New Evangelization, Franciscan University of
Steubenville
Hope to Die, Hope to Rise Hope is what will sustain us in the days yet to come. It also will
make it possible to experience joy in this day, no matter what
sorrows presently afflict us. Scott Hahn draws from Scripture and
personal experience to offer encouragement and hope grounded in
Christ’s Resurrection.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
His Eminence, Sean
Cardinal O’Malley Archdiocese of Boston
The Parables - A Call to Discipleship The parables, particularly in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, are
a gift to us from Jesus whereby the eternal truth is presented in the
form of an engaging story that captures our attention and leads us
to discover the truth for ourselves. The process of coming to more
fully know and understand our one, true faith requires time and
effort. Jesus guides along a journey of cultivating the seeds of truth
to produce growth in our lives. As we become closer to the Lord,
we learn how to pray with a focus on God rather than ourselves,
and become members of the family of Christ.
Aaron Kheriaty Associate Professor of
Psychiatry and Director of
Medical Ethics Program,
University of California, Irvine,
School of Medicine
Rioters and Revolutionaries This talk will unpack the origins of the crisis playing out in our city
streets. We will see why today’s misbegotten revolutionary
ideologies produce only nihilism. This talk will also examine the
question of why the normalization of violence has become one of
the most characteristic features of our time.
Carter Snead Director, de Nicola Center for
Ethics and Culture, University
of Notre Dame
US Abortion Law and Policy: The Way Forward After June
Medical Services In this lecture Carter Snead (Director of the de Nicola Center for
Ethics and Culture and Professor of Law at the University of Notre
Dame) will discuss the Supreme Court's landmark decision this
summer on abortion (June Medical Services v. Russo), and what it
means for the future of the pro life movement's struggle for equal
justice under law for unborn children.
Interview with
Roger Severino Director, Office for Civil Rights
(OCR), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
Federal Efforts in the Fight to Protect Human Dignity In this interview, Roger Severino discusses what the Trump
Administration and HHS have done to fight for life, conscience and
religious freedom rights, and to protect human dignity. Mr.
Severino also discusses the work of OCR in standing up the new
Conscience and Religious Freedom Division and the enforcement
actions it has taken. Mr. Severino also explains what OCR has done
during the pandemic to protect against disability and age
discrimination in the allocation of resources and care. Mr. Severino
concludes with a reflection on living out one’s faith in public life.
Interviewed by Arina O. Grossu, Senior Communications
Advisor for the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
Louis Brown Executive Director, Christ
Medicus Foundation
A New Birth for Civil Rights
Panel Discussion
Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?
Dr. Catherine Pakaluk | Director of Social Research and
Assistant Professor, The Busch School of Business at The
Catholic University of America
Trent Horn | Staff Apologist, Catholic Answers
Moderator: Fran Maier | Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public
Policy Center; Former Senior Advisor and Special Assistant to
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
John Bursch Senior Counsel and Vice
President of Appellate
Advocacy, Alliance Defending
Freedom
Looking Back, Looking Forward, Finding Hope at the U.S.
Supreme Court From Bostock to June Medical Services and from Espinoza to Our
Lady of Guadalupe, the U.S. Supreme Court’s past Term was
tumultuous in its religious-liberty and pro-life decisions, but in the
midst of it all, there was also hope. In this 20-minute presentation,
John Bursch, Vice President of Appellate Advocacy for Alliance
Defending Freedom, will discuss the Court’s biggest decisions from
the past year and preview what’s on tap. He concludes that there is
great cause for optimism about the Court and its direction.
Robert Senkewicz Professor of History Emeritus,
Santa Clara University
Junípero Serra: the Man Behind the Myths For most of the past century Junípero Serra has been interpreted in
a virtual one-dimensional fashion: as a faultless and selfless hero or
as a grisly architect of violence and death. This presentation will try
to get behind these simplistic notions to discover the reality of a
complex man living in challenging times, the actual man recently
canonized by Pope Francis.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
LIVE EVENT
3:00 p.m. Pacific
Live Zoom Conversation with Dr. Joshua Mitchell Join Dr. Joshua Mitchell to discuss his session, American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time. Space is limited to 50 people. RSVP required. Zoom Call details will be provided following RSVP. RSVP for the Conversation Here.
4:30 p.m. Pacific
Love & Reconciliation in America Followed by Q&A Arthur Brooks, Practice of Public Leadership Professor and Faculty Fellow at Harvard University
5:00 p.m. Pacific
Pope Francis & Vatican II The Most Reverend Robert E. Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
ON-DEMAND
6:00 p.m. Pacific
Friday Evening Videos Released
These sessions will be available to watch at your leisure from
6:00 p.m. Pacific until October 14, 2020.
Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist In Concert
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020
MORNING AGENDA
LIVE EVENT
7:30 a.m. Pacific
Holy Mass Livestreamed from Old Mission San Jose, Fremont Celebrant: The Most Reverend Michael C. Barber. S.J., Bishop of Oakland Followed by the rosary
ON-DEMAND
8:00 a.m. Pacific
Saturday Morning Sessions Released
These sessions will be available to watch at your leisure from
8:00 a.m. Pacific until October 14, 2020
Speaker Topic
Dr. John Bergsma Professor of Theology,
Franciscan University of
Steubenville
St. Paul Center Presents the Bible – Part 2
The Gospel of Matthew: The Kingdom Has Come!
The Gospel of Matthew is a foundational book—some would say
the foundational book—of the New Testament, so often providing
the link from Old to New. But who can summarize—much less
visualize—the important message of this book? Dr. Bergsma
breaks down Matthew using visual memory devices so that the life-
saving message of this Gospel can be grasped and taught simply
and effectively.
Vincent Phillip Muñoz Tocqueville Associate
Professor of Religion & Public
Life, University of Notre Dame
Religious Liberty & the Supreme Court
Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J. Co-founder/President, Napa
Institute
Transforming Suffering Through Faith
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020
Rick Warren Pastor & Founder, Saddleback
Church
Principles for Living Through a Pandemic
Mary Hasson Fellow at the Ethics and Public
Policy Center in Washington,
D.C.
JK Rowling and the Crisis of Womanhood Mary Hasson discusses how Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling, has
become an unexpected defender of womanhood following
recent online controversy in response to the U.K.'s Gender
Recognition Act.
Allen C. Guelzo Director, Initiative on Politics
and Statesmanship, Princeton
University
Ignoble History: The 1619 Project The 1619 Project, published as a special issue of The New York
Times Magazine in 2019, claims to offer a comprehensive new
interpretation of American history, in which every aspect of
American life is interpreted as some reflection of slavery or racism.
But like all single-explanation theories, it commits serious
historical errors. Worse still, its marketing as a K-12 school
curriculum encourages a younger generation to see their country as
a political, social and economic failure.
George Weigel Distinguished Senior Fellow,
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Lessons from St. John Paul II for This Catholic Moment The United States has been living through a crisis of crises during
2020. George Weigel suggests what Pope St. John Paul II might say
to a country seeking the truth about itself as a source of national
renewal.
LIVE EVENT
9:00 a.m. Pacific
Making Missionary Disciples
Followed by Q&A Curtis Martin, Founder, Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS)
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020
9:45 a.m. Pacific
Interview with His Eminence, George Cardinal Pell His Eminence, George Cardinal Pell, Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello Interviewed by Marilyn Rodrigues, Journalist for The Catholic Weekly, Archdiocese of Sydney
10:30 a.m. Pacific
Hope in Mercy Fr. Michael Gaitley, Director of Evangelization for the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception
11:30 a.m. Pacific
Live Zoom Conversation with Trent Horn and Dr. Catherine Pakaluk Join Trent Horn and Dr. Catherine Pakaluk to discuss their session, Can a Catholic Be a Socialist? Space is limited to 50 people. RSVP required. Zoom Call details will be provided following RSVP. RSVP for the Conversation Here.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020
AFTERNOON AGENDA
ON-DEMAND
12:30 p.m. Pacific Saturday Afternoon Sessions Released
These sessions will be available to watch at your leisure from
12:30 p.m. Pacific until October 14, 2020
Speaker Topic
Fr. John Riccardo Executive Director, ACTS XXIX
We Were Born for This In this talk, Fr. John Riccardo and ACTS XXIX share a reflection on
the uniqueness of our time and the urgent and irreplaceable role of
the disciple and the Church in it.
Matt Fradd Author, Speaker, and Host of
Pints with Aquinas
Porn: 7 Myths Exposed There are many myths that prevent people from seeing
pornography for what it truly is: a diabolical counterfeit for love. In
this talk, Matt untwists the lies, shines light on the darkness, and
offers hope to those who are ready to reject the counterfeit and
embrace the truth. He backs up his arguments with startling
statistics, real life stories, and the rock solid wisdom of the Church's
teachings on human sexuality.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty Associate Professor of
Psychiatry and Director of
Medical Ethics Program,
University of California, Irvine,
School of Medicine
Maintaining Our Mental Health During the COVID
Pandemic Rates of depression, anxiety, stress, substance abuse, and suicide
have been on the rise during the coronavirus stay-at-home orders.
Dr. Kheriaty, a psychiatrist, will not only describe these concerning
trends, he will also provide concrete practical suggestions you can
implement to reduce the risk of these outcomes and improve your
mental health during these challenging times.
RJ Snell Director of Academic
Programs, Witherspoon
Institute
Tradition and Moral Identity: What the Church Can
Give the Young Many young people want to lead serious lives, but many feel that
they have been robbed of their cultural patrimony, that the adults
didn’t give them the tradition and authority they need to
understand how to live well. As a result, some turn to nostalgia
projects, feverish activism, and, increasingly, to rage. But it’s not
just them, many in the West don’t know what to do or how best to
live, in part because the “virtuosi of decreation,” have been at work
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020
to unmask and take apart tradition, especially the family. Now, as
much as ever, the Church can meet the pressing needs of the young
by offering our account of divine filiation, a way of life, an account
of moral agency, and a defense of family.
Fran Maier Senior Fellow, Ethics and
Public Policy Center; Former
Senior Advisor and Special
Assistant to Archbishop
Charles J. Chaput
Crisis, Church Reform and the Lay Vocation The turmoil today in our nation and in so much of modern life can
seem distressing. But it’s simply the truth, and the truth really does
make us free; not comfortable, but free from our illusions. Free to
see the world as it really is. We can’t control the circumstances that
other people create for us. But we can usually control how we
respond to them. The challenges we face also remind us, as
believers, that our real home – our mater et magistra; our mother
and teacher – is the Church.
Ross Douthat Op-Ed Columnist, Podcast Host
and Author, The New York
Times
The Decadent Society and the Church Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our
social media frenzy and reality television politics, the deeper reality
is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. Ross Douthat explains
what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases
advancing—how the combination of wealth and technological
proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemates, cultural
exhaustion, and demographic decline creates a strange kind of
“sustainable decadence,” a civilizational languor that could endure
for longer than we think.
Robert L. Woodson, Sr. Founder and President,
Woodson Center
America Should Not Be Forever Defined by the Stain of
Slavery, but celebrated for its victory over it and the promise
it offers for all
What can be done about the persistent racial unrest plaguing our
nation today? The New York Times’ 1619 Project would have us
believe that the racism that allowed slavery and segregation is in
America’s very DNA. But Bob Woodson’s 1776 Unites rejects this
hopelessness, demonstrating that black Americans have always
excelled in the face of adversity and that this same spirit can enable
us to unite and overcome today.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020
LIVE EVENT
3:00 p.m. Pacific
How a Return to “The Basics” Can Save the Church and the World Right Now Chris Stefanick, Author, Speaker, Television Host
3:45 p.m. Pacific
The Fragility of Freedom Followed by Q&A Rick Santorum, CNN Senior Political Commentator and former U.S. Senator
ON-DEMAND
5:00 p.m. Pacific Saturday Evening Sessions Released
These sessions will be available to watch at your leisure from
5:00 p.m. Pacific until October 14, 2020
Special Screening
The Search: Why a God? Episode 3 of the new FORMED series Today we seem to think we’ve moved beyond the idea of God, but this secular view of life is a very new and unusual idea to humanity. All through human history man has looked to something outside himself for the answers to life. Why have we given up on God? Do we think science has disproven Him? Do we think society is better off without him? We talk with astrophysicists, chemists, Harvard professors, and more to make the case that it’s not only reasonable to believe in God, it’s essential if you want to have a truly amazing life. Our souls seek their creator, and we’ll never be truly happy unless we seek Him out. As St. Augustine famously said, “You have made us for Yourself O Lord, and our hearts are restless. until they rest in Thee.” This is where, in one sense our Search finds its end. We, the creatures, seek their creator. This presents the very foundation of everything. But, what if the God that we are all searching for, is actually searching for us.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020
Fr. John Riccardo Executive Director, ACTS XXIX
National Day of Prayer and Fasting Fr. John Riccardo, Executive Director of Acts XXIX invites you to join him in a National Day of Prayer and Fasting on September 24, 2020 to bring healing and mercy to our country and conversion to our hearts.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2020
OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES
LIVE EVENT
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Pacific
Trinitas Cellars Cabernet Francis Vertical Tasting During this tasting, you will taste firsthand how each year's unique weather shapes the flavor of wine by trying our 2014, 2015, and 2016 Cabernet Francis, alongside our Proprietor Garrett Busch. As you likely know, our Cabernet Francis is made in honor of Pope Francis. The family has been sending him a steady supply ever since they presented him the inaugural 2012 vintage in 2013. A special Napa Institute guest will also join the tasting! Click below to order the three year vertical wine tasting kit for $240. We realize that 3 bottles of wine may be a bit too much to consume in one evening, so we are also offering guests an opportunity to purchase a Coravin Model Three for a total cost of $199. This wine preservation system allows you to enjoy a bottle of wine in any increment you please, over the course of months. *This activity requires additional registration and payment. Orders must be placed by midnight on August 9th to ensure delivery before the virtual tasting. Register/Purchase Your Tasting Kit Here