Courses Offered and Course Description

 

Biography

Dr. Gump is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Enology at California State University, Fresno, where he has taught courses in chemistry and wine analysis for many years. He has also instructed a “Wine Components” class and a “Wine Analysis” class for the wine education program housed at Santa Rosa Junior College. For two years Dr. Gump has been teaching wine analysis over the internet through the VESTA programs (a consortium of Mid-western colleges and universities) – the program is operated through Missouri State University.

Dr. Gump is a co-author of “Wine Analysis and Production”, a textbook for students and practitioners in the wine industry, co-author of “Food: The Chemicals We Eat”, a text for classes in food chemistry, and Editor of “Wine and Beer Production: Analysis, Characterization, and Technological Advances” a reference book based on a symposium at the National American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco in 1992, ACS Books, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Gump has a long association (twenty-seven years) with the wine industry, conducting research in analytical methodology applied to grapes, juices, and wines. He has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture (1987 – 2007), and reviews technical manuscripts for a number of national, international, and trade publications. Dr. Gump has been a professional wine judge for many years at a number of major wine competitions (San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, West Coast Wine Competition, Grand Harvest Wine Competition, Riverside International Wine Competition, etc.).

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