The major, based on fundamental and applied sciences, modern agribusiness principles, and appropriate social sciences, encompasses grape cultivation, enology, and wine business – creating both an interesting and diverse undergraduate opportunity.  The curriculum fosters an academic alliance among production agriculture, food science, and agricultural business interests and provides an academic understanding of the “vine to glass” opportunity.  Students gain extensive hands-on experience in all aspects of the wine industry.

Cal Poly's College of Agriculture currently offers a diverse faculty and nearly 9,000 acres of farmland, including a 100-acre state-of-the-art commercial vineyard.  This vineyard provides our students with an excellent opportunity to practice Cal Poly's trademark “Learn by Doing.”  Graduates of the Wine and Viticulture Major are uniquely qualified to enter the wine industry.