Washington: WSU offers viticulture program online

Wines & Vines, March, 2005

Washington State University Extension offered a viticulture certificate program online for the first time beginning Feb. 7. The distance-learning viticulture program provides basic as well as applied information required for the production of high-quality grapes and wines in Washington. The new program builds on a successful, in-person certificate program that was available in 2003-04. A companion enology certificate program was initiated in 2004 and will be completed in August 2005.

The current enology program is fully enrolled. An online version should be available January 2006. For more information, visit wineducation.wsu.edu/viticulture.