The Graduate Diploma in Oenology is designed for future winemakers and assistant winemakers, winery technical staff, senior cellar staff, winery enterprise managers and other specialised staff, such as technical suppliers. Its aim is to provide students with an excellent technical understanding of winemaking through provision of a relevant and coherent body of wine production and wine science knowledge, as well as industry-relevant skills.

Subject areas include:

• Grape and Wine Production
• Wine Science
• Work Experience (Graduate Diploma)
• Sensory Science
• Winemaking
• Wine Chemistry
• Wine SensoryAssessment
• Winery Engineering
• Wine Microbiology
• Wine Business Management

There is one entry point per year:

• January

One year (full time)

Applicants must meet one of the following criteria:

• have completed a three year degree or equivalent qualification or 
• be able to demonstrate significant in-depth relevant work and professional experience in science. 

Most courses in the programme have pre-requisites defined for undergraduate students. These pre-requisites will be waived for graduate diploma students, provided students do not have significant gaps in their knowledge in the relevant areas. These areas are stated as ‘Assumed prior knowledge’ in the course table. At enrolment, each student will have to discuss their plan of study with the Programme Co-ordinator, who will decide if any additional study in these areas is needed before students will be allowed to enrol in the courses that require the assumed prior knowledge.  The assumed prior knowledge will be equivalent to a student gaining a pass in a Level 5 (100 Level) degree course in Chemistry, Statistics, Microbiology/Cell Biology and Physics. 

Students who have enrolled in, but not completed, the Bachelor of Viticulture or the Bachelor of Wine Science will be unable to enrol in either the Graduate Diploma in Viticulture or the Graduate Diploma in Oenology.

English Language Entry Requirement

Students are required to have attained an acceptable level of English language fluency.  This may be demonstrated in a variety of ways, including successful study in English, approved scores on IELTS (6.5 Academic) tests, completion of accepted international equivalents or completion of an EIT Hawke’s Bay assessment.

The Graduate Diploma in Oenology is designed for future winemakers and assistant winemakers, winery technical staff, senior cellar staff, winery enterprise managers and other specialised staff, such as technical suppliers.