Kirkwood Winery Program
Each year students at Kirkwood Community College produce 3,000 bottles of wine from 24 different types of grapes that are grown on the main campus. The college offers winemaking and winery facility management program since 2009. This program is divided into eight parts that cover planting, harvesting, vine crushing, fermentation, clarifying, bottling and marketing the wine. The eight part series are Vineyard Establishment, Winter into Spring Vineyard Management, Spring Vine Yard Management 1 and 2, Sumer Vine Yard Management 1 and 2 and Harvesting Vineyard Management 1 and 2. During the process, students are allowed to see and experience from the day the grapes are planted through the harvesting. According to Lucas McIntire, vineyard manager, Kirkwood sets the classes to match the time of planting and harvesting program in order to give the students actual learning during the classes. Therefore students can earn their vineyard management certificate in one ...