Saturday, November 30, 2019

Palo Alto College offers winemaking degree for a booming Texas industry [expressnews.com]

The flava:
With nearly 600 wineries and more than 100,000 jobs, a surging Texas wine industry requires skilled labor to keep up with it — a need Palo Alto College aims to fill.

 Starting in the spring, the college will offer an associate degree in viticulture and enology — that’s grape-growing and winemaking — a regional first designed to supply vineyard and winery workers who know what they’re doing.

The article:
https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Palo-Alto-College-offers-wine-making-degree-for-a-14867827.php

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3 comments:

  1. Froderick Frankenstien from FresnoNovember 30, 2019 at 5:19:00 PM CST

    We have an enology program here in Fresno. It's not bad stuff. Still, it's often not a good sign when students list "enology" as their major when they're not even in the Ag. school.

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  2. EC1December 1, 2019 at 2:27:00 AM CST

    I had no idea Texas made wine! Are we talking vineyards, too?

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  3. Zooze the HorseDecember 1, 2019 at 9:17:00 AM CST

    Texas wineries.

    Twelve top Texas wineries to visit.

    And if you're going to Marfa, might as well drop by
    the vineyards in Fort Stockton.

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