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Viticulture & Enology Links
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Grayson County College’s Viticulture & Enology
program is one of the few degreed grape growing and wine making programs
in the country, and the first of its kind in a Texas community college.
GCC’s timely offering of the program corresponds with the growing
popularity of vineyard and winery operations in the southwest United
States.
History plays an important role in the Viticulture & Enology program
at Grayson County College. The program was introduced in 1974, but
the foundation from which the program has emerged was laid in 1876
when Thomas Volney Munson arrived in Denison, Texas, to begin a career
in grape research which was to last a lifetime.
Grayson County became T.V. Munson’s home after his first visit to
the area when he stated, “I have found my grape paradise!” It
must surely have been true for he spent the remaining years of his
life in the area developing three hundred superior grape varieties
from the wild native grapes along the bluffs of the Red River and
its tributaries.
Sixty-five of Munson’s grape varieties may now be found in the T.V.
Munson Memorial Vineyard located on Grayson County College’s West
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