Wine Campus - intermediate wine courses via e-learning

intermediate wine courses via distance learning

Wine Campus ™ is currently accepting registrations for the following distance learning courses

Basic Essentials of Wine (20 x lessons)

€ 375 - USD 550
No prior experience or wine knowledge required

This e-learning course, in which you receive one lecture per week, provides an introduction to all the fundamental basics of wine, how climate and location can affect your wine’s taste and quality, what the grape farmer has to do, various aspects of winemaking and investigates the sensory evaluations that are frequently overlooked when drinking wine.
In wine tasting techniques you will learn how to taste wine and you will study the different components of a wine’s appearance, aroma and flavour, and also how to taste & analyse wines, sparkling wines and liqueur wines.

This module offers a basic understanding of the major grapes used for making wine and their discerning characteristics. You will also get a detailed introduction to fortified and sparkling wines.

The course consists of 20 detailed and professionally prepared lectures on topics such as, for example, The Mechanics of Smell, What Is an Odour, Towards A New Classification Of Smell & Taste, The Aroma & Taste Profile Chart, Introduction to Wine making, Major Red and White Grape Varieties, Climate & Wine Quality, How Grapes Grow, Making White, Rose and Red Wine, Sparkling Wine, Secrets of Fortified Wine, Sauternes & Sweet Wines, Oak & Flavour, Corks & Cork Taint, Decanting, Cellaring Wine, Reading Wine Labels, Glossary of Wine Tasting Terms and more.

This course can easily be rated as being of a higher academic level and standard than most other wine courses of an intermediate level as offered by other colleges.

(starting any day of the week, once your fee has been paid in)

THE PLATFORM

Specialising in providing wine courses online, we have created the ideal virtual learning environment. The platform comprises virtual classes, a tasting room, video room, chat room and much more. All with in easy reach at the click of a button. Once you have enrolled, you receive your student ID and password to access.

Wine Campus is affiliated with internet TV channel Winepeeks. Here's a preview of an excerpt from one of the many tutorials available to our students via the platform.

Certificate in Wine (40 x lessons)

€ 710 - USD 1045
No prior experience or wine knowledge required

This is a detailed and long course offered only by e-learning aimed at students from around the globe who wish to familiarise themselves with wine and seek to acquire a professional and thorough wine education.

This course is by far more detailed than BASIC ESSENTIALS OF WINE although the some of the same topics are being covered albeit in depth. Extra care has been taken by the course coordinating panel to avoid repeating infuriating mistakes and myths that so often soil wine books and wine related internet sites. Some of the topics covered are: Assessing Wine Methodically, The History and Culture of Wine, The Wine World in Figures, Socio-Economic Aspects, Terroir & Climate, Soils, Viticulture, Grape Varieties, Styles of Wine, Legislation & Labels, Wine Producing Regions, Vinification of White, Rosé, Red and Sweet Wines, Fortified & Dessert Wines, Liqueurs & Spirits, Wine Management & Marketing, Serving Wine, Pairing Food & Wine and Storing Wine.

The course consists of :

40 detailed interactive Lessons with compulsory Assignments
Many online resources
A compulsory Essay
Compulsory Wine Tasting Sessions of 60 wines (cost of wines not included in the fee)
A compulsory Final Examination
Online discussions with wine professionals about any possible new developments in the wine industry

(starting any day of the week, once your fee has been paid in)

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