Mark Chien
Mark Chien received his Bachelor of.Arts in psychology from his home town school, Amherst College. He became interested in wines and viticulture while traveling and studying in Europe. His studies in the viticulture graduate program at University of California, Davis, included research in the Davis vineyards and the Sierra Foothill Vineyard in Amador County, California. His first job was at Pindar Vineyards on the North Fork of Long Island where he became vineyard manager and its first wine maker.
In 1985 he migrated to the Willamette Valley of Oregon to manage a 220-acre farm with 100 acres of wine grapes near Salem. He served on various boards in Oregon, including the research committee of the Oregon Wine Advisory Board. In 1999 he become the wine grape agent for Penn State Cooperative Extension. Based in Lancaster, he serves a 16 county region in Southeast Pennsylvania.
Chien provides a variety of educational services to local and regional wine growers, including the Wine Grape Network website. He has served on several committees during his commercial grape growing career, including the research committees of the Oregon Wine Advisory Board and the Pennsylvania Wine Research and Marketing Program.
He has been a long time member of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture and was serves on the board of the eastern section of that organization. Mark lives in Lancaster with his wife,Judi.
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