Wine East - Covering Eastern North America: N.Y. Viticulture and Wine Center Opens to Finger Lakes Students

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Geneva, N.Y.—When spring semester classes started Jan. 26 at Finger Lakes Community College in Geneva, students found the new Viticulture and Wine Center ready for their use. For the past several years, viticulture and enology classes have been heldat the nearby Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park, sometimes referred to as the Tech Farm. According to Paul Brock, assistant professor of viticulture at FLCC, "The new building will be a better learning environment."The FLCC winery was designed to provide practical expe-rience for students in the college's certified two-year program, which offers an applied science associate's degree in viticulture and wine technology. Graduates of the program may transfer to Cornell University's viticulture-enology program in Ithaca, N.Y., or seek employment in the wine industry.