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Fresno State Winery – join the club

by Jodi Raley

With more than 22 varietals per harvest, the Fresno State Winery offers a selection of classic favorites and emerging blends — all produced by Fresno State viticulture and enology students.

Fresno State’s new Art and Science wines include a blended white wine, Abstract Theory, and two blended red wines, Pythagorean’s Serum and Depth Perception.

The wines were exclusively introduced to members of Fresno State’s Unleashed Wine Club. Members can receive a selection of four bottles of wine, handpicked by the University winemaker, distributed three times a year, in February, May and October. Each shipment ranges from $40 to $50.

Along with exclusive tastes and releases of wines, members receive a 20 percent discount on wine purchases online or at the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market. The club also hosts several events, including the bi-annual Winemakers Dinner.

“The Unleashed Wine Club is a learning-based club, as well as an exploration opportunity,” says Kevin Smith, business and marketing manager of the Fresno State Winery. Smith says the wine club is an integral research tool for the University to explore single varietal wines that can do well with the heat of the San Joaquin Valley.

Rolling out in spring 2015 will be an entry-level wine club named Rootstocks. Through a single purchase of three or more Fresno State wines, customers are enrolled in the club and do not have to pay membership after the initial purchase. Members will receive a 10 percent discount on wine purchases at the Gibson Farm Market and online.

In 1997, Fresno State became the first university in the United States to have a commercially-bonded winery on campus.