Next fall the state’s soaring grape and wine industry will have a new group of trained professionals in the pipeline, thanks to a program known as the Texas Tech Viticulture Certificate Program. “We’ll have a new cohort of students for the Texas Tech Viticulture Program in the fall, so it’s time for potential students to start thinking about getting their applications completed,” said Ed Hellman, a professor of viticulture and enology at Texas Tech University-Fredericksburg. The application period runs from June 1 to July 31, and the program is expected tobegin in mid-September. The viticulture certificate program is designed for wine industry entrepreneurs ...