Unlike New York or Pennsylvania, the state had no college or graduate level viticulture or oenology programs. There are “huge gaps in the workforce development in New Jersey,” she says. But along the way she’s found another hugely influential way to contribute to the wine industry in the state. Tepper is currently developing her vines and navigating the slow bureaucratic process of opening a winery in New Jersey, to be called Crosswicks Creek Winery at the moment she can make wine only for personal use and is using her driveway as a crush pad. “It’s an extraordinary time to be involved in wine in New Jersey.” Avventura’s central New Jersey location, in Allentown, hasn’t traditionally been the state’s wine country, but “there are vineyards popping up all over,” Tepper says. Her academic specialty is the science of taste, and the couple’s compatible, wine-oriented skill sets, plus a piece of available agricultural property down the road from their house, inspired them to start developing Avventura vineyard and winery. Tepper and husband Mark Pausch, a yeast molecular biologist, were “looking for the next chapter,” she says. in nutrition and professor of sensory science at Rutgers, became a vineyard owner and winemaker in 2016. Putting classroom theory into real-world practice, Beverly Tepper, Ph.D. They’re changing things rapidly themselves, too, as they join organizations and launch their own businesses. Women entering the industry are finding mentors, following in the footsteps of trailblazers, and discovering new programs to help them get started. The state’s wine industry is booming-at last count there were more than 60 wineries and vineyards, many with tasting rooms, with more set to open in the next year-and the creative ferment has been highly welcoming to new talent. Today, more and more real women in the Garden State are raising grapes to prominence once more through wine growing, making, educating, and selling. The state seal of New Jersey, created in 1777, depicts Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, holding a cornucopia overflowing with fruit grown in the state at that time. The future of NJ wine has a new force and Beverly Tepper, professor in the Department of Food Science where she directs the Sensory Evaluation Laboratory, is among the nine women featured in Edible Jersey. Professor of Food Science Beverly Tepper.
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