Viticulture & Enology

CONTENTS PVCC & Enology Program.... 2 Viticulture Certificate Program...... 3 Enology Certificate Program...... 7 Tasting Room Management Certificate . Program...... 10 Cellar Worker Certicate Program...... 14 Non-Certificate Classes...... 15 Registration Information...... 16 PVCC VITICULTURE & ENOLOGY PROGRAM VITICULTURE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

VITICULTURE CERTIFICATE Introduction to Viticulture PVCC Workforce ... COURSE REQUIREMENTS Establishing a vineyard requires sound Over 60 different grape varieties are management decisions from the initial planning Services... • Introduction to Viticulture stage through the harvesting of grapes. This cultivated in Virginia for wine production. The only one of its kind in Virginia, PVCC • Vineyard Site Selection class provides you with practical information In addition to popular grape varieties like offers certificate programs in viticulture • Soil Preparation & Planting on the elements needed to start a working , , Cabernet (grape-growing), enology (wine making), • Dormant Pruning vineyard-everything from grape selection to Franc, , and , many lesser tasting room management and winery • Pest Control harvesting! Class starts at PVCC and includes known varieties like Verdejo, , and visits to several vineyards. cellar worker. Classes are noncredit and • Canopy Management Vermentino are thriving in Virginia. most classes are held on Saturdays. Led by • Harvesting & Basic Analysis Vineyard Site Selection Virginia wine industry professionals, these • Virginia has seven American viticultural of the Must programs combine in-class instruction Find the ideal location for your vineyard-the areas • Vine Grafting & Propagation most important and fundamental decision in with hands-on learning in local vineyards • Virginia has 27 wine trails • Vineyard Management: Part I the process of wine grape growing! This class and wineries. Students range from current • Approximately 1.6 million tourists visited (Field Experience) includes the fundamentals of vineyard design owners and operators looking to sharpen Virginia’s wineries in 2014 • Vineyard Management: Part II and layout. their skills to novices looking to get involved • Virginia is the fifth largest wine grape (Field Experience) in Virginia’s growing wine industry. producer in the U.S. • Vineyard Spraying Soil Preparation & Planting • Tractor Safety Join vineyard consultant Jake Busching 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

2 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 3 Dormant Pruning Harvesting & Basic Analysis of the Vineyard Managemen: Part I Vineyard Spraying Bring your pruning shears and join Virginia’s most Must Adopt a row of vines this spring! Be responsible To grow healthy ripe fruit, free of disease, a notable vigneron, Gabriele Rausse. Learn why Harvesting is peak season in the wine industry. for managing and maintaining an assigned working knowledge of chemical spraying is and how to prune grapevines through lecture You will begin with the critical process leading section of a working vineyard during the essential. We will discuss fungicides, pesticides and hands-on experience. up to the decision to harvest. Follow Gabriele growing season. Learn the techniques for caring and herbicides and how their applications can Rausse, famed father of modern Virginia wine, for healthy vines and the crucial decisions in both benefit and in many cases cause damage Pest Control on a journey with the grapes from the vineyard vineyard management to meet your business to a vineyard if not applied properly. In this class How can you control pests and weeds without to the winery. This hands-on class includes field objectives. we will cover the basics of why a rotational spray compromising the quality of the fruit? Learn observation, tasting in the vineyard, laboratory program is so critical and how to practically and about various types of pests and the damage testing (actual testing will be conducted), Vineyard Management: Part II safely apply them. Additional topics that will be they can cause. This course is required for the harvesting methods and equipment, sorting, Adopt a row of vines this summer! Be responsible covered include herbicide ground sprays, tank certificate in viticulture. Lunch is included. pressing, crushing, stemming, steel tanks and for managing and maintaining an assigned mixing, calibration of tractor and spray unit and winery equipment. section of a working vineyard during the growing foliar nutrient applications. Canopy Management season. Learn the techniques for caring for Identify various types of canopy styles with the Vine Grafting & Propagation healthy vines and how to make crucial vineyard objective of managing the vineyard and keeping Vitus vinifera must be grafted on to native management decisions to meet your business your business objectives in mind: quantity vs. rootstock in order to survive in Virginia. After objectives. Prerequisite: Vineyard Management: quality. Topics include hedging, leaf pulling and Master Grafter Gabriele Rausse shows you how Part I. dropping fruit. to bench graft, proper root stock selection and forcing and storing of grafted vines, you will graft vines.

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4 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 5 ENOLOGY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Pesticide Applicator’s License Tractor Safety ENOLOGY CERTIFICATE Introduction to Enology The Virginia Certified Private Applicator’s License The purpose of this class is to make you familiar COURSE REQUIREMENTS Interested in winemaking? This class gives you certifies you in the use of any pesticide classified with tractors and how they can be used safely. an overview of the winemaking process for as restricted use for the purpose of producing Topics include major components of tractors, • Introduction to Enology both red and white . Specific problems any agricultural commodity on property owned built-in safety features on the tractor, and safe • Wine Analysis & Tasting facing the Virginia winemaker will be discussed or leased by you or your employer. This is a practices during tractor use. • Winery Design & Equipment including reduction, oxidation and the problems self-study program. You may purchase the • Legal Issues in the Wine Industry associated with unripe grapes. text entitled Core Manual – Applying Pesticides Basic Tractor Repair • Marketing Wine Correctly for $28, available online at http s:// Wine Tasting & Analysis Correctly maintaining a tractor will add years • Fermentation & Racking apps.cals.vt.edu/flex/PATManualOrdering/ to its useful life and save you time and money. Do you know “farming the grapes” affects their • Harvesting & Basic Analysis PATManualOrdering.html. Certification exams This class teaches you basic troubleshooting, taste and aroma? Can you recognize your are taken at your local Virginia Department of maintenance and repair of your tractor. of the Must personal capabilities in wine tasting? Become a Motor Vehicles (DMV) Customer Service Center. • Wine Bottling competent wine taster by learning the essentials Harvest Internship • Sparkling Winemaking of professional tasting. For more information, please contact Workforce Services at 434.961.5354. Learn different aspects of vineyard and cellar work as you gain valuable first-hand experience Winery Design and Equipment working the harvest at a local winery or vineyard. 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 from local winery owner Jeff Sanders of Glass House Winery.

6 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 7 Legal Issues in the Wine Industry Fermentation & Racking Wine Bottling Virginia’s wine lawyer, Marybeth Williams, From juice the wine is made. Matthieu Finot, Covers the final stages of fermentation in walks students through the legal intricacies and winemaker and consultant, will teach the intricate preparation for bottling, including equipment important regulations that the serious wine processes of wine fermentation and racking used, selection of bottles and labeling. Includes grower needs to know to survive in the wine from the point at which the juice enters the tanks. hands-on experience. Lunch is included. business. Discover the hot issues facing Virginia Topics include primary fermentation, malolactic Members of the VVA include wineries while Marybeth makes this class fun fermentation, yeasts, carbonic maceration, Sparkling Wine Making commercial growers, those who grow grapes as a hobby, and others who just with tons of materials and resource information temperature control, fining, steel tanks, oak Andrew Hodson, Wine & Spirit Education supplied. barrels and more. want to learn more about viticulture. Trust (WSET) Diploma, CSW, owner of Veritas Many of Virginia’s farm wineries and producer of Veritas Scintilla and Veritas Wine Marketing Harvesting & Basic Analysis of the are also members, as are several Mousseux teaches the magic and art of companies which provide goods and People in the wine business say that anyone can Must sparkling winemaking à la méthode traditionelle. services to grape growers throughout make wine, but can they sell it? Learn cutting- Harvesting is peak season in the wine industry. Learn the detailed techniques of making the state. Membership is not limited to edge strategies for marketing wine from Neil You will begin with the critical process leading sparkling wine from the first fermentation and Virginia residents, we welcome all who Williamson of the Trellis Group. Everything from up to the decision to harvest. Follow Gabriele second fermentation, disgorging and finishing. share our interests. labels to romancing the wine is covered in this Rausse, famed father of modern Virginia wine, required enology class. Enhanced by talks from on a journey with the grapes from the vineyard Virginia Vineyards Association area wine professionals, you will learn how to to the winery. This hands-on class includes field P.O. Box 168 design a marketing strategy. observation, tasting in the vineyard, laboratory Waterford, VA 20297 testing (actual testing will be conducted), 571.236.8074 harvesting methods and equipment, sorting, [email protected] pressing, crushing, stemming, steel tanks and www.virginiavineyardassociation.com winery equipment.

8 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 9 TASTING ROOM MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

A properly functioning tasting room is a key component to a winery’s success. The Tasting Room Management Certificate helps prepare you for the responsibility of managing the tasting room of Wine Marketing Legal Issues for the Tasting any farm winery. People in the wine business say that anyone can Room The certificate requires the completion of six core courses and three electives for a total of nine make wine, but can they sell it? Learn cutting- The tasting room is one of the riskiest places for classes. edge strategies for marketing wine from Neil winery licensees. Educating your tasting room Williamson of the Trellis Group. Everything from staff on legal and regulatory issues and pitfalls labels to romancing the wine is covered in this CORE COURSES Managing Customer Service is one of the most important things a winery required enology class. Enhanced by talks from can do to protect itself from ABC violations. You As someone who participates in delivering high area wine professionals, you will learn how to Introduction to Tasting Room will learn the basic regulations that govern the levels of customer service, you’re an important design a marketing strategy. service and sale of alcohol in Virginia including Management ambassador for your organization. But do you rules on underage service, service to intoxicated Learn ways to make your tasting room more truly feel empowered and capable of delivering TIPS® Training people, consumption of outside alcohol, top-notch customer service? In this six-week memorable and profitable. This course will TIPS® (Training for Intervention ProcedureS) is consumption of alcohol while on duty and what online course, you’ll discover a number of discuss tasting room staffing and training, events the global leader in education and training for to expect during an ABC inspection. dynamite methods to bring out your best and management and tips, wine tasting strategies, the responsible service, sale and consumption of also do the same for the people you work with. tours, social media and other ideas to help alcohol. Proven effective by third-party studies, Wine Analysis & Tasting You’ll learn how to measure customer service— increase business. TIPS is a skills-based training program that Do you know how “farming the grapes” affects from your company’s point of view and from the is designed to prevent intoxication, underage their taste and aroma? Can you recognize your customers—and discover how to anticipate the drinking and drunk driving. personal capabilities in wine tasting? Become a needs of your customers. As an added bonus, Find out more about the TIPS® online class at competent wine taster by learning the essentials you’ll unlock the power of leading by example www.gettips.com of professional tasting. and setting new trends for customer service in your business. Find out more about the Managing Customer Service class at www.ed2go/piedmont.com

10 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 11 ELECTIVES

Pairing Food with Wine Introduction to Enology Sparkling Wine Making Using Social Media in Business Taught on three consecutive evenings at Interested in winemaking? This class gives you Andrew Hodson, Wine & Spirit Education Whether you consider yourself a social media Charlottesville’s highly acclaimed C&O an overview of the winemaking process for Trust (WSET) Diploma, CSW, owner of Veritas novice or a seasoned veteran, this online course Restaurant. Enjoy gourmet food and wine as both red and white wines. Specific problems and producer of Veritas Scintilla and Veritas will give you a solid foundation and thorough Richard Hewitt, former sommelier at Keswick facing the Virginia winemaker are discussed Mousseux teaches the magic and art of understanding of what social media is and how Hall, covers how to properly taste wine, menu including reduction, oxidation and the problems sparkling winemaking à la méthode traditionelle. you can use it to grow your business. As you preparation, selection of wines and food for the associated with unripe grapes. Learn the detailed techniques of making progress through the course, you’ll master a occasion, wine faults, serving wines, and a few sparkling wine from the first fermentation and simple process for making social media work do’s and don’ts about wine. Successful Wine Club Management second fermentation, disgorging and finishing. for you. You’ll learn about the five most popular NOTE: A separate food and wine charge of Wine clubs can be a strong profit center for social media platforms, Facebook, Twitter, $40/night all-inclusive payable to the C&O your winery. In this class we’ll discuss strategies ED2GO ONLINE CLASSES LinkedIn, Pinterest and Google+, and study will apply. How to properly taste wine, menu on how to attract and retain wine club secrets for using them to promote your business. preparation, selection of wines and food for the members, ways to promote and sell wine club Wow, What a Great Event! occasion, wine faults, serving wine, wine lingo memberships, how to add value to your wine Successful Wine Club Management and a few dos and don’ts about wine. A separate club and how to differentiate yourself from other In this online class, you’ll learn how to create and Wine clubs can be a strong profit center for food and wine charge of $25/night payable to wine clubs among other related topics. coordinate successful special events. Develop your winery. In this class we’ll discuss strategies the C&O Restaurant will apply. skills, find resources and gain confidence to on how to attract and retain wine club plan and produce any size or type of event. This members, ways to promote and sell wine club course reveals proven tips, tools, techniques and memberships, how to add value to your wine procedures used by experts and master event club and how to differentiate yourself from other planners to help you avoid embarrassing and wine clubs among other related topics. costly planning errors or production mistakes.

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12 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 13 CELLAR WORKER CERTICATE PROGRAM NON-CERTIFICATE CLASSES Please note: Any of our classes are available to take individually apart from a certicate program. The following classs are not included in a certificate program. CELLAR WORKER CERTIFICATE PROGRAM Advanced Pruning The Seven Best (and Worst) Ways The only one of its kind in Virginia, this certificate program trains you for an entry-level cellar worker position in a winery or cidery. Taught by industry professionals, most of these classes This class will review the pruning work done to Start a Vineyard: What every grape are held on Saturdays, scheduled during the harvest season. Classes in this 13-week program in the prior year, looking at the effects on bud grower needs to know to achieve success include: count, renewal spurs, crop load, winter hardiness (and avoid failure) and related factors. Then we will prune the same In this class, we will look at the essential • Course Overview & Introduction • Crush: Red Processing vines again for the coming year. components that go into vineyard planning Prerequisite: Vineyard Management classes I & II. to Winemaking • Cap Management and management. These include economic • Winery Safety, Cleaning & Sanitation • Racking & Barrel Management considerations, site evaluation, varietal selection, • Winery Equipment & Maintenance • Fining & Filtration Ampelography rootstock choices, vineyard design, labor • Lab Basics & Pre-Harvest Analysis • Bottling Ampelography is grapevine botany or how to requirements, and mechanization. Lucie Morton identify grape varieties by their leaves. Taught • Crush: White Processing • Overview of Cider Making has followed the evolution of wine growing in by Lucie Morton, one of only four certified her home state of Virginia since the 1970s and • Fermentation Management • Forklift Operator Training Ampelographers in the world, this class is can clearly show and explain what are the keys (Yeast, Bacteria) essential for anyone working in a vineyard. You to successful vineyards. As a general viticulturist, will see how to look at grapevines and identify she will outline the challenges of grape growing the most important wine grapes planted in here in a holistic way whereby she shows Virginia: Chardonnay, Viognier, Sauvignon how each decision affects the entirety of the Blanc, Merlot, , and operation and its chances for success. Cabernet Sauvignon. You can start your own herbarium with leaves you have selected after Wine Blending correctly identifying them in the field. Wine blending tests the true skills of the winemaker. In this class, renowned Virginia Custom Crush winemaker Matthieu Finot will share his secrets Great for novices of experienced winemakers, on the art of blending wines. Learn how to mix this class will teach you how to the art of varietals to make a variety of premium wines. winemaking from start to finish. The class start in August with assessing grapes in the vineyard and ends in May/June with bottling of the finished product. Cost includes all materials including grapes. Class times are flexible. At the end of class, each student receives four cases of wine.

14 PVCC Workforce Services • 501 College Drive • Charlottesville VA • 22902 www.pvcc.edu/workforce • 434.961.5354 • [email protected] 15 REGISTRATION INFORMATION Online

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This brochure was made possible through funding from the Virginia Wine Board.

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