Viva Brighton Issue #80 October 2019
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MY SPACE<br />
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Greg Dunn<br />
Curriculum Manager at Plumpton Wine Centre<br />
What courses do you offer at the<br />
Plumpton Wine Centre? A whole<br />
variety, from degrees to day courses.<br />
We offer a BA and foundation degree in<br />
Wine Business, and a BSc and Masters<br />
in Viticulture and Oenology, which<br />
trains people to grow grapes, make wine<br />
and to work at a relatively high level in<br />
the wine industry. There’s currently a<br />
shortage of practical vineyard workers,<br />
so we also offer a level three course and<br />
we’re about to launch an apprenticeship<br />
scheme. The Sussex wine industry has<br />
created a lot of job opportunities and<br />
it’s still expanding.<br />
What facilities do you have? We’re<br />
extremely well set up to teach every<br />
aspect of wine making. We have a<br />
commercial winery, three different<br />
types of labs, a research winery and two<br />
vineyards. As a country, we don’t produce<br />
a lot of wine (last year we produced 15<br />
million bottles against, say, Champagne,<br />
which produced 300 million bottles) but<br />
the teaching facilities that we have are<br />
excellent.<br />
Our well-qualified tutors come from<br />
all over the place: Australia, Cornwall,<br />
America, Brazil and we’re about to<br />
welcome another lecturer from India.<br />
We’re a bit of a United Nations and<br />
all well-connected in the world’s wine<br />
regions, which comes in useful when<br />
arranging placements for our students.<br />
Where do your students go on to<br />
work? Most people working in the UK<br />
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