42 Oenology Degree Programs

Get Your Diploma in Wine and Spirits in Bordeaux. Study in the heart of France’s wine capital and earn your Wine Consultant Diploma, taught entirely in English. Obtain an official French state certification and become a certified Wine Professional with CAFA Wine School, one of the world’s best wine and sommelier training programs. Learn from expert sommeliers, explore French vineyards, and start your global career in wine. A Wine Consultant professionally tastes and evaluates wines and spirits, curating product selections with tasting as the primary tool. They identify the best price–quality options for wine importing companies, restaurants, or wine cellars. Graduates of the Wine Consultant Diploma can pursue careers as sommeliers, wine bar managers, importers, exporters, brand ambassadors, wine shop owners, wine tourism managers, wine journalists, and more.

The Master’s in Viticulture, Enology and Wine Marketing provides advanced training in grape cultivation, winemaking, quality control, and global wine economics. Taught in English across leading Italian universities, the program prepares graduates to manage the entire wine production chain, apply innovative and sustainable practices, and navigate international wine markets.

The Bachelor of Viticulture and Oenology Engineering program offers the opportunity for students to study viticulture and winemaking, including their technological background as well as vine types in Hungary and around the world.

The Master’s degree explores understanding, management, promotion, and protection of high-value food products. The Italian food production system serves as a model to identify the specific elements outlining the unique value of food products, which are inextricably linked to place (terroir) through historical, social, and cultural ties. This background couples with the most recent developments in technology, nutrition, food safety, diet and health, and sensory science, core elements of a growing international demand for terroir-related high-value foods.

Complex problem solving skills in managing local viticulture and oenology production systems play a leading role among the courses taught and are developed taking into consideration both the environmental and the socio-economical aspects. Moreover, graduates will be able to master innovative work methods and meticulous work procedures.

The Máster Universitario en Enología at the Polytechnic University of Valencia is aimed at training professionals in wine production and processing, technicians and managers of companies in the sector, and future researchers and specialists in wine technology and innovation.

Management Gastronomy and Oenology was designed for students passionate about gastronomy and oenology who wish to develop their expertise in these areas while acquiring management and business management skills.

Expertise in Wine Management is a pioneering course, which covers all areas of interest to the wine business, provided by the best professionals in each area.

The main objectives of the master's degree in Oenology and Viticulture are: Advanced training, complementing and innovating the first cycle; Development of scientific, technological and professional skills of excellence; Improvement of the intervention capacity in the wine sector; Ability to plan, innovate and evaluate new techniques and processes or improve procedures in use; Mechanisms for critical analysis based on the vitivinicultural context; Progression in the formation and updating of knowledge and skills.

The Master's course in Italian Cuisine and Oenology – Level I is divided into two parts: the first consists of theoretical-practical lessons at ICIF Headquarters and educational field trips; the second, consists of a professional internship (optional), at a restaurant selected by the school.

The II Level Master Course in Italian Cuisine and Oenology , lasting 180 days, is set out in two parts: the first, with a 55-day length, of theoretical-practical lessons at the ICIF headquarters, supplemented with educational field trips; the second consists in a 120-day professional internship (optional, not included in the subscription cost), at restaurants selected by the school.

The Master aims to provide technical-scientific skills related to the organoleptic qualities of products, skills that focus on the techniques and technologies of transformation of wine and food products. To complete the course, theoretical and practical in-depth studies are foreseen with internships, on the aspects of catering and hospitality. Finally, a dedicated and specific space is provided for the acquisition of textual skills and abilities, aimed at ensuring full familiarity in interpreting and producing texts of different styles and aimed at different audiences.

The MSc Viticulture and Oenology equips students with an in-depth, critical understanding of viticulture and oenology, an awareness of current research and advanced scholarship, and an ability to apply their knowledge to complex decisions unpredictable circumstances.

This program will provide foundational knowledge and skills for the next generation of wine-grape growers and wine producers in the Sierra Nevada foothills region of northern California. The program offers introductory training appropriate for local and regional wine-related employment opportunities and further training at 4-year programs in viticulture and oenology.

This certificate program offers students the opportunity to learn about the complex and vast wine industry, paving the way for a potential future global wine world. Wine studies courses generally include field studies to vineyards and wineries in the region.