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Download the PVCC Viticulture & Enology Brochure Viticulture & Enology CONTENTS PVCC Viticulture & Enology Program ... 2 Viticulture Certificate Program ............. 3 Enology Certificate Program ..................7 Tasting Room Management Certificate Program ...................................................10 Non-Certificate Classes ........................14 Registration Information .......................15 PVCC VITICULTURE & ENOLOGY PROGRAM PVCC Workforce Virginia Wine... Services... Over 60 different grape varieties are cultivated in Virginia for wine production. The only one of its kind in Virginia, PVCC In addition to popular grape varieties like offers certificate programs in viticulture Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet (grape-growing), enology (wine making), Franc, Viognier, and Merlot, many lesser tasting room management and winery known varieties like Verdejo, Nebbiolo, and cellar worker. Classes are noncredit and Vermentino are thriving in Virginia. most classes are held on Saturdays. Led by Virginia wine industry professionals, these • Virginia has seven American viticultural programs combine in-class instruction areas with hands-on learning in local vineyards • Virginia has 27 wine trails and wineries. Students range from current • According to the Virginia Tourism owners and operators looking to sharpen Corporation, more than 2.2 million tourists their skills to novices looking to get involved visited Virginia wineries in 2015. in Virginia’s growing wine industry. • Virginia is the fifth largest wine grape producer in the U.S. See the class schedule and register for class at www.pvcc.edu/wine 2 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 VITICULTURE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM VITICULTURE CERTIFICATE Introduction to Viticulture COURSE REQUIREMENTS Establishing a vineyard requires sound management decisions from the initial planning • Introduction to Viticulture stage through the harvesting of grapes. This • Vineyard Site Selection class provides you with practical information • Soil Preparation & Planting on the elements needed to start a working • Dormant Pruning vineyard-everything from grape selection to • Pest Control harvesting! Class starts at PVCC and includes visits to several vineyards. • Canopy Management • Harvesting & Basic Analysis Vineyard Site Selection of the Must Find the ideal location for your vineyard-the • Vine Grafting & Propagation most important and fundamental decision in • Vineyard Management: Part I the process of wine grape growing! This class (Field Experience) includes the fundamentals of vineyard design • Vineyard Management: Part II and layout. (Field Experience) • Vineyard Spraying Soil Preparation & Planting • Tractor Safety Join vineyard consultant Carl Tinder and learn how to prepare soils for growing and planting • Basic Tractor Repair wine grapes in Virginia. You will plant vines in a • Pesticide Applicator’s License local vineyard. • Harvest Internship Subscribe to our wine class mailing list: www.pvcc.edu/wine www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 3 Dormant Pruning Harvesting & Basic Analysis of the Bring your pruning shears and learn not only the Must importance of dormant pruning, but also why Harvesting is peak season in the wine industry. and how to prune dormant vines through lecture You will begin with the critical process leading and hands-on experience. up to the decision to harvest. This hands-on class includes field observation, tasting in the Pest Control vineyard, laboratory testing (actual testing will be How can you control pests and weeds without conducted), harvesting methods and equipment, compromising the quality of the fruit? Learn sorting, pressing, crushing, stemming, steel tanks about various types of pests and the damage and winery equipment. they can cause. This course is required for the certificate in viticulture. Vine Grafting & Propagation Vitus vinifera must be grafted on to native Canopy Management rootstock in order to survive in Virginia. After Identify various types of canopy styles with the Master Grafter Gabriele Rausse shows you how objective of managing the vineyard and keeping to bench graft, proper root stock selection and your business objectives in mind: quantity vs. forcing and storing of grafted vines, you will graft quality. Topics include hedging, leaf pulling and vines. dropping fruit. See the class schedule and register for class at www.pvcc.edu/wine 4 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 Vineyard Managemen: Part I Vineyard Spraying Adopt a row of vines this spring! Be responsible To grow healthy ripe fruit, free of disease, a for managing and maintaining an assigned working knowledge of chemical spraying is section of a working vineyard during the essential. We will discuss fungicides, pesticides growing season. Learn the techniques for caring and herbicides and how their applications can for healthy vines and the crucial decisions in both benefit and in many cases cause damage vineyard management to meet your business to a vineyard if not applied properly. In this class objectives. we will cover the basics of why a rotational spray program is so critical and how to practically and Vineyard Management: Part II safely apply them. Additional topics that will be Adopt a row of vines this summer! Be responsible covered include herbicide ground sprays, tank for managing and maintaining an assigned mixing, calibration of tractor and spray unit and section of a working vineyard during the growing foliar nutrient applications. season. Learn the techniques for caring for healthy vines and how to make crucial vineyard management decisions to meet your business objectives. Prerequisite: Vineyard Management: Part I. Subscribe to our wine class mailing list: www.pvcc.edu/wine www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 5 Pesticide Applicator’s License Tractor Safety The Virginia Certified Private Applicator’s License The purpose of this class is to make you familiar certifies you in the use of any pesticide classified with tractors and how they can be used safely. as restricted use for the purpose of producing Topics include major components of tractors, any agricultural commodity on property owned built-in safety features on the tractor, and safe or leased by you or your employer. This is a practices during tractor use. self-study program. You may purchase the text entitled Core Manual – Applying Pesticides Basic Tractor Repair Correctly for $35 online. Certification exams are Correctly maintaining a tractor will add years taken at your local Virginia Department of Motor to its useful life and save you time and money. Vehicles (DMV) Customer Service Center. This class teaches you basic troubleshooting, maintenance and repair of your tractor. For more information, please contact Workforce Services at 434.961.5354. Harvest Internship Learn different aspects of vineyard and cellar work as you gain valuable first-hand experience working the harvest at a local winery or vineyard. See the class schedule and register for class at www.pvcc.edu/wine 6 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 ENOLOGY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM ENOLOGY CERTIFICATE Introduction to Enology COURSE REQUIREMENTS Interested in winemaking? This class gives you an overview of the winemaking process for • Introduction to Enology both red and white wines. Specific problems • Wine Analysis & Tasting facing the Virginia winemaker will be discussed • Winery Design & Equipment including reduction, oxidation and the problems • Legal Issues in the Wine Industry associated with unripe grapes. • Marketing Wine Wine Tasting & Analysis • Fermentation & Racking Do you know “farming the grapes” affects their • Harvesting & Basic Analysis taste and aroma? Can you recognize your of the Must personal capabilities in wine tasting? Become a • Wine Bottling competent wine taster by learning the essentials • Sparkling Winemaking of professional tasting. Winery Design and Equipment The design, layout and equipment needed for For winery locations, go to: an efficient operation are critical components for virginiawine.org/wineries success in the wine industry. Learn winery design from the ground up. Subscribe to our wine class mailing list: www.pvcc.edu/wine www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 7 Legal Issues in the Wine Industry Fermentation & Racking Virginia’s wine lawyer, Marybeth Williams, From juice the wine is made. Matthieu Finot, walks students through the legal intricacies and winemaker and consultant, will teach the intricate important regulations that the serious wine processes of wine fermentation and racking grower needs to know to survive in the wine from the point at which the juice enters the tanks. business. Discover the hot issues facing Virginia Topics include primary fermentation, malolactic wineries while Marybeth makes this class fun fermentation, yeasts, carbonic maceration, with tons of materials and resource information temperature control, fining, steel tanks, oak supplied. barrels and more. Wine Marketing Harvesting & Basic Analysis of the People in the wine business say that anyone can Must make wine, but can they sell it? Learn cutting- Harvesting is peak season in the wine industry. edge strategies for marketing wine from Neil You will begin with the critical process leading Williamson of the Trellis Group. Everything from up to the decision to harvest. This hands-on labels to romancing the wine is covered in this class includes field observation, tasting in
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