AHIVOY 2025
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Alex Camarillo, Results Partners
To apply for the Wine Industry Professional Training Program, complete an application and submit to AHIVOY no later than November 15th, 2024. There are multiple ways to complete the application below. Choose what works best for you.
Important Dates:
Applications Due: November 15th, 2025
Scholarship Announced: December 15th, 2025
The program begins: January 7th, 2026
Classes are held every Wednesday from January to April, from 9am-2:30pm.
Aplicación para el Programa de Entrenamiento Profesional de la Industria del Vino
Wine Industry Professional Training Application (PDF)
Complete and mail application to AHIVOY: PO Box 155 Dundee, OR 97115
Wine Industry Professional Training Application (Google Form)
Complete and submit electronically. *If you are submitting your application electronically, your employer needs to complete the Employer Support Form (below) for your application to be considered.
Employer Support Form (Google Form)
Employers who want to support a vineyard steward in completing the Wine Industry Professional Training Program, must complete this form for the vineyard stewards application to be considered.
Please read the FAQ’s to learn more about the program.
For questions about the application process, email: ahivoyoregon@gmail.com
2025 Wine Industry Professional Training Applications
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Wine Industry Professional Training
Sample Schedule
The Wine Industry Professional training program is designed to further technical knowledge and skills in the vineyard and create a greater awareness of how vineyard operations connect to the finished wine. The program integrates classroom learning, field trips, industry panel discussions, as well as wine industry credential training.
Week 1
Registration/Orientation, Resources
Week 2
Vine anatomy, overview of growing season, key growth stages
Vineyard health and safety
Week 3
Vineyard management decisions at key growth stages
Vineyard economics
Week 4
Vineyard management decisions at key growth stages
Vineyard economics
Week 5
Organic, biodynamic, sustainable vineyard practices
Wine industry panel discussion: Farming Practices
Week 6
Winemaking 101: how wine is made, practices harvest to bottle
Fruit and berry composition, how vineyard work connects to fruit composition
Week 7
Oregon Wine Symposium
Week 8
Winery equipment, winery cleaning and sanitation
Winery health and safety
Week 9
Winery operations, logistics, timelines
Roles of winery employees
Week 10
Wine industry panel discussion: History of Oregon Wine
Vineyard and Winery business structure and compliance
Week 11
OLCC servers training and certification
Week 12
How to open, pour, serve, and talk about wine
Wine customer service and hospitality
Week 13
Wine sales models
Field trip
Week 14
Wine marketing models
Field trip
Week 15
WSET Level 1 training and certification
Week 16
Latinx/Hispanic leadership in the Oregon Wine Industry
Field trip
Week 17
Wine industry panel discussion: Career Opportunities in Wine
Completion Celebration