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Seven decades after Cornell launched the first course of its kind in the U.S., the for-credit tour of the grape still sparkles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story was condensed from <\/em>a feature<\/em><\/a> in the <\/em>Cornell Chronicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By David Nutt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mountaineers have Mount Everest. Musical prodigies have Carnegie Hall. Cornell has the wines class. One of the University\u2019s most popular elective courses, not to mention the envy of college undergraduates everywhere, the iconic \u201cHADM 4300: Introduction to Wines\u201d has helped generations of Cornellians refine their palates\u2014and knowledge\u2014about the many varieties of wine and how each is produced, bottled, labeled, distributed, sold, and, ultimately, savored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cornell\u2019s first wines course\u2014and the first accredited wines course offered at any American university\u2014launched in 1953 for students in what is now the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This semester, the course is celebrating its 50th anniversary as an elective open to students of all majors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few traditions in college lore can match the class in which students are served quality alcoholic beverages every week. And, just like a fine cabernet sauvignon, Intro to Wines has only deepened with age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt is a journey,\u201d says Cheryl Stanley \u201900<\/a>, a senior lecturer in food and beverage management at the Nolan School who has taught the class for the last decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe teach the basics of what is wine, and we ‘travel’ each week to a different place in the world to learn about wines.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Understanding wine is not just a treat for taste buds and palates. It can be crucial for anyone pursuing a career in the hospitality industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWine is a very scary field to look at because you have the viniculture side, the agriculture, the farming part, then you have the knowledge that accompanies knowing how to sit and discuss wine,\u201d says Delesa McCruter \u201925, who took the course last spring. \u201cBecause being a hotelier, a lot of the deals I will probably make in my life will be somewhere at some lounge, some bar, over a glass of wine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lot of the deals I will probably make in my life will be somewhere at some lounge, some bar, over a glass of wine.<\/p>\nDelesa McCruter \u201925<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The original Introduction to Wine and Spirits was launched in 1953 by a group of five New York vintners and importers, one of whom, Julius Wile<\/a>, was the course\u2019s first instructor and famously commuted up to Ithaca from New York City once a week for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the course as it is known today was first taught by the late Vance Christian \u201961, MS \u201965<\/a>, the Villa Banfi Professor of Hotel Administration and Cornell\u2019s first Black tenured faculty member. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his 23 years of teaching, Christian modernized the Hotel school\u2019s food and beverage curriculum, and he popped the cork on the wines class, making it available University-wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cProfessor Christian had a vision of saying it should not just be for the Hotelies to learn about wine and to be able to have a seat at the table. It should be for every single individual here at Cornell University. And it goes back to Ezra Cornell\u2019s mission of \u2018any person \u2026 any study,\u2019\u201d Stanley says. \u201cSo everyone has equal access and opportunity to learn about the world of wine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing that hasn\u2019t changed: competition for a seat in the class is fierce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 106 juniors and seniors enrolled in the first class in 1953. The current semester enrollment is about 700 students. The wait list for HADM 4300 is almost as legendary as the class itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If taking Intro to Wines is a coveted Cornell tradition, so is teaching it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since Christian revamped the course 50 years ago, only two other instructors have led it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Christian was diagnosed with cancer, he passed the baton\u2014or, rather, the b\u00e2tonnage<\/em><\/a>\u2014to his former teaching assistant Stephen Mutkoski \u201967, PhD \u201976, in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian died a year later, and Mutkoski taught the class for the next 30 years, shaping it into a more consumer-oriented course. During his tenure, he also eliminated spirits from the curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanley was hired to teach the class in 2013. She hardly needed any introduction to Intro to Wines. She had taken it in her junior year in the fall of 1998 and, like Mutkoski, she had been one of its teaching assistants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSteve TA\u2019d for Vance, I TA\u2019d for Steve,\u201d she notes, \u201cso we kept it in the family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She and Mutkoski co-taught the class together for a year before she took it over solo in 2014 and Mutkoski retired from Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe also understood that it\u2019s an institution,\u201d she says. \u201cHe traveled the world for years, going to events, because he also was an alum of the Hotel school. People would come up to him in the airport and say, \u2018You were the wines professor; I took your class at Cornell.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wines class students are easy to spot. The course fee includes a $45 wine-tasting kit comprising three glasses inside a black, foam-lined case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you\u2019re on campus on a Wednesday,\u201d Stanley says, \u201cit looks like we have a lot of clarinet players.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For anyone wondering how much wine is required for 700 students, here is a little math: of the course\u2019s 14 classes each semester, 12 feature tastings of up to seven different wines. Each student is served one ounce of each wine, and a typical bottle of wine contains 25.4 ounces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That works out to roughly 210 bottles a class, or 2,520 bottles for the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019re on campus on a Wednesday, it looks like we have a lot of clarinet players.<\/p>\nCheryl Stanley \u201900<\/strong>, wines course instructor<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Chayil Hyland \u201925, a former wines class teaching assistant who is now taking the class as a student, says learning how to read a wine list and evaluate a wine\u2019s characteristics and knowing what foods it can be paired with, all help increase a person\u2019s \u201ccultural capital.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really robust class,\u201d Hyland says. \u201cAnd although it\u2019s difficult to get into, once you get in, you\u2019re happy that you\u2019re there. You\u2019ll take something from that class that you\u2019ll use for the rest of your life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photos by Ryan Young \/ Cornell University, unless indicated.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published December 6, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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