Updates
Fresno State Winer y Fresno State has been producing quality wines since 1997, and quality graduates for decades. Not only is the Fresno State Winery known for being the first winery on a university campus with a license to produce and sell wine, it is also recognized for the role it plays in preparing students for careers in the wine industry. While receiving a strong foundation in the science of wine from our faculty and instructors, our students also have the unique opportunity to actively “experience” winemaking under the direction of our winemaker, John Giannini. The
The Fresno State Winery is proud to be known as “The Home of Tomorrow’s Winemakers”
As the spring semester begins, Giannini reports that students will be working on fining and
winery is a place of “learn by doing.” Our student-produced wines are available on campus at the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market, as well as some local retail stores. Some
blending trials, filtering, and bottling white and red wines—beginning with White Zinfandel, Tailgate Rosé, and Muscat — and barrel work in the winery’s World Cooperage Barrel House. A
are surprised to learn that Fresno State produces over 20 different wines—this number supports the fact that our students are exposed to numerous grape varieties and styles of
port-style wine is on the horizon, and is expected to be released in 2013, closer to the holiday season.
winemaking.
www.FresnoStateWinery.com
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