After wine grapes were named the highest-value crop in San Luis Obispo in 2023, this year the Cal Poly Winery faces a lower-yielding harvest, except for a new grape varietal to Cal Poly. Reporter Izzy Romero visits the Wine and Viticulture department to learn more about their unique harvest.
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New Wine and Viticulture Center will be ready fall 2021
An undertaking that has been about fifteen years in the making, Cal Poly’s Wine and Viticulture Center is expected to be completed in the Fall of 2021, according to wine and viticulture professor Federico Casassa.
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Through the grapevine: a status update on wine and viticulture classes
When forced to move online, do students’ classes shrivel like raisins in the sun, their glasses dried up and the neat rows of vineyards empty? Cal Poly’s wine and viticulture (WVIT) program is seeking fresh ways to answer this question, encourage collaboration and exploration of the wine industry.
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Cal Poly is $250,000 closer to on-campus winery thanks to donation
Cal Poly’s upcoming JUSTIN and J. LOHR Center for Wine and Viticulture is $5 million away from its $20 million fundraising goal, thanks to Cooperages 1912 and the Boswell family. Their $250,000 donation was announced in early June 2019. The family-owned company contributed to Cal Poly’s wine education in the past by donating barrels and […]
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New Wine and Viticulture lab impacts field at large
Learn by doing, the wine and viticulture way
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Cal Poly alumni donate $1.2 million to Wine and Viticulture Center
Cal Poly alumni pledge $1.2 million to wine and viticulture center.
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Mustang News Now: 1-Minute update
Mustang News anchor Michelle Logan has the headlines you need to know going into this week.
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Governor Brown signs ‘sip and spit’ bill: underage students now able to taste wine
The law will allow California public university students enrolled in enology or brewing programs to taste wine in a classroom setting.
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Wine and viticulture co-founder leaves behind Cal Poly legacy
Sean McMinn smcminn@mustangdaily.net Deceased wine and viticulture professor Keith Patterson was everything an aspiring winemaker could want in a mentor. He was knowledgable, positive and passionate about wine, according to his former students. But most of all — they emphasized — he cared about them. “(He was) the teacher that you knew you would be […]
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Viticulture donation nothing to wine about
The Paso Garagiste nonprofit organization donated $10,000 to Cal Poly viticulture at a special event Feb. 1, to help the department provide a better education for students The check was issued at Hammersky Vineyards at an event held in honor of the sponsors, volunteers and winemakers who participated in Paso Garagiste’s first annual Paso Garagiste Festival, which took […]
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Wine country possibly shrinking
Global warming could hurt Cal Poly and other premium winegrowing regions of California in the next 30 years, said Noah Diffenbaugh, an assistant professor of environmental Earth system science at Stanford. Diffenbaugh and other Stanford University climate scientists said by 2040, the amount of land suitable for growing wine grapes could shrink by 50 percent […]