Richard Carey, Ph.D.

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While Starting off his career as a Professor of Botany, he knew that Academia was not in his DNA. In 1977 he started the Richard Carey Winery in San Leandro, a small urban winery. The early 80's were tough on interest rates and did a terrible job on the wine industry. In 1985 he retired from the winery business and became Research Enologist at Cal State Fresno's Department of Viticulture and Enology. He also started Vitis Research as a consulting company to the wine industry. 

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His fascination was to find novel ways to fulfill the technological means to make traditional styled wines using the latest in advancements to the wine industry. Soon after starting this company he also started writing for industry trade publication as a way to get the word out about what is new in the industry. Over his career he as written for most all of the trade magazines: Vineyard and Winery Management, Wine East, Wines & Vines, and current writes for Wine Business Monthly.

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