Wine Tasting Expert course
Students enrolling in the following course will be able to choose from foundation, intermediate and expert.
A sample of the modules are as follows:
Wine Knowledge
Wine Sensory Ability
Business and Practical Expertise
Wine and Food Comprehension and Pairing Skills
Foundation level with exam only 495pln
Intermediate level with exam and workshop only 699pln
Advanced level with exam and workshop only 899pln
Students enrolling in the following course will be able to choose from foundation, intermediate and expert.
A sample of the modules are as follows:
Wine Knowledge
- World's major grape varieties, including where they grow
- World's major varietals, including major characteristics of those varietals
- Most widely planted premium grape varietals
- Process of fermentation
- Meaning of alcohol by volume and average range of alcohol by volume for standard table wines
- Meaning of fortify, residual sugar, filtration, and fining
- Role of barrels in winemaking (what effect oak has on a wine; the difference between barrel fermentation and stainless steel fermentation)
- Main compounds that act as preservatives in wine, allowing it to age
- Key physical requirements for growing vines
- Concept of terroir, clones, scion, and rootstock
- Factors that must be considered in planting a new vineyard
- Why and how harvest decisions are critical to the final style and flavor of the wines
- World production trends, including the top wine-producing countries in the world
- Europe's major wine regions, the wines produced in them, and the grape varieties from which those wines are made
- Major New World wine regions, the wines produced in them, and the grape varieties from which those wines are made
Wine Sensory Ability
- A basic ability to describe and evaluate wine professionally, including assessing a wine's color, aroma, flavor, body, finish, and overall quality
- Describe the range of colors that exist in white and red wines
- Tell apart, with a good degree of accuracy, the major varietals/types of wine, in a blind tasting
Business and Practical Expertise
- Ability to read and decipher wine labels from all the major wine-producing countries
- Basic understanding of correct wine service
- Importance of good wine glasses, including the features of a good wine glass
- General markup for wine in a restaurant and in a retail store
Wine and Food Comprehension and Pairing Skills
- General principles behind successful and unsuccessful wine and food matches
- Concepts of complementary pairings and contrasting pairings
- Names of and principles behind several classic wine and food matches
- Ability to pair an appropriate single bottle of wine when different entrées are ordered from a restaurant menu
Foundation level with exam only 495pln
Intermediate level with exam and workshop only 699pln
Advanced level with exam and workshop only 899pln