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Frederic Theodore Bioletti was born in 1865 in Liverpool, England.

In 1878, he emigrated to the United States and resided in Sonoma County, California. He attended Heald’s Business School in San Francisco before beginning, what would become his life’s vocation, working for Senator Stanford in his commercial wine cellar at Vina Ranch.

From 1889 to 1900, Bioletti studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in 1894 and 1898 respectively. While there, he was an assistant to Professor E. W. Hilgard, a noted soil scientist, with whom he studied the fermentation of wines. Their work greatly influenced the vintner’s of California and resulted in a higher quality grape being produced in the region.

Bioletti left California for South Africa, in 1901, to teach viticulture, oenology, and horticulture, but returned three years later to rejoin the University at Berkeley. For most of the remainder of his career he taught and conducted research at the University’s Department of Viticulture and Oenology where he was both their first professor and first chair of the department. He also founded the grape breeding program at the University of California Agricultural Experiment Station where he was active in introducing and breeding new varieties of grape. During prohibition, Bioletti had the creative task of attempting to come up with uses for the wine grape other than producing alcohol.

Bioletti retired in 1935 and died four years later in 1939.