Local Wine Events

Event ID #417506

Event Details

Tags:   Wine   Educational  

This course is our Level II Certification. It is designed to prepare you for a management level position as a wine buy (or F&B), a head sommelier, event planner, a buyer for a wine shop or restaurant, or to be a sales person with a distributor or importer. We have even had numerous wine makers take this course.

The Advanced Wine Course includes:

• Component Tasting
• French Wine
• Italian Wine
• German and Austrian Wine
• Spanish and Portuguese Wine, including fortified wines
• Greek Wine
• North American Wine
• Australia and New Zealand Wine
• South American Wine
• South African Wine
• Event Planning
• Wine List Development
• Formal Sommelier Service (and practical exam)
• Descriptive, Comparative and Technical Wine Evaluation
• Diploma, Guild pin and membership card
• Plus - 700+ pages of course material specifically developed for this course, and approximately 65 wines to taste.

This 12-week course meets once a week on Wednesdays from 12 noon - 5:30pm September 30th - December 16th,  for a total of 60 contact hours. Course fees are $1900. Cost of the wine course includes registration fees, handouts, wine, and instruction. We taste older vintage wines in this course.