U.S. grant to help develop program

Winston-Salem Journal - Boone isn’t Bordeaux, true.

But the college town in the North Carolina mountains and the southwestern French port city might have more in common in the coming years if a few wine lovers at Appalachian State University have their way.

ASU announced last week that two of the school’s chemistry professors got a $65,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a degree program in wine science.

The program centers on a yearlong exchange at universities in Udine, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal, or Bordeaux, France, to study the European wine business.

ASU offers a handful of classes in viticulture and enology. It does not have a degree in viticulture right now and lacks a vineyard for hands-on training, said Grant Holder, who teaches a course called “Cellar Science” and is one of the grant’s recipients. Read the full article