The Department of Viticulture and Enology addresses many major threats to the wine industry, including climate change, disease and scarce water resources. 

Generous philanthropic support has created a solid foundation for the department, which boasts the world’s most advanced and sustainable winery with facilities such as the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science and the Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building. Endowments provide support in perpetuity for the kind of research and education that has made the department world-renowned in its field.

The recent $4 million endowment, given anonymously, funds unique projects that use and further develop analytical tools, advanced technologies and techniques and equipment.

We’ve been extremely fortunate as a department to have philanthropic gifts that allow us to build a world-class research program.”

-Ben Montpetit, associate professor and vice chair of the Department of Viticulture and Enology

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