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Cost: $695
THE ULTIMATE IN SENSORY TRAINING: An intensive program to prepare for mid-level blind tasting exams and bring your tasting skills to the next level.
Developed by Master Sommelier David Glancy, this program is designed to enhance your blind wine analysis techniques like never before! Serious enthusiasts and professional wine students will sharpen their ability to assess structure and identify aromas. In addition, students will taste classic wines from around the world to hone varietal and regional identification skills. Tastings will focus on structure, varietal markers and regional markers.
LOCATION
San Francisco Wine School
415 Grand Ave #301
South San Francisco, CA 94080
SYLLABUS OVERVIEW
Component Tasting: Structure
Learn to accurately assess acid, tannin, sugar and alcohol as Master Sommelier David Glancy leads you through a tasting of 16 carefully manipulated wines to help you clearly delineate the different levels of each. This workshop is fun for novice-intermediate tasters and an important tune up for advanced tasters.
Component Tasting: Aroma
Learn to tune up your senses as you identify specific smells and tastes of various fruit, spice, herb and other elements as you blindly identify them in 12 carefully controlled sample wines. This is a far more effective approach than commercially available wine aroma kits made with essential oils that are not consumable or in a wine solution. This workshop is fun for novice-intermediate tasters and an important tune up for advanced tasters.
Faults & Imbalances
In this workshop, Master Sommelier and Certified Wine Educator, David Glancy helps students learn and practice flaw identification using the Society of Wine Educators’ Faults and Imbalances Exam with the same samples and ratios presented for the Certified Wine Educator level. Master Glancy will also teach students exam preparation and test-taking strategies to help students work smarter not harder.
Varietal Profiling: Whites
Master Sommelier David Glancy will coach students to develop their own varietal markers for the most important international white grape varieties. Profile the similarities and differences in the varietals. Global wine regions are also considered as Master Glancy helps you decipher the differences between regional and varietal influences.
Varietal Profiling: Reds
Master Sommelier David Glancy will coach students to develop their own varietal markers for the most important international red grape varieties. Profile the similarities and differences in the varietals. Global wine regions are also considered as Master Glancy helps you decipher the differences between regional and varietal influences.
Conclusions: Tasting & Testing Techniques
In this workshop, Master Sommelier David Glancy guides students to work the deductive tasting grid against the clock. Students will continue to practice their improved blind tasting skills and develop discipline to analyze every wine in the same manner every time. Master Glancy will also teach students exam preparation and test-taking strategies to help students work smarter not harder.
REQUIREMENTS
All attendees must be 21+ years
Instructor: David Glancy, MS, CWE
Hosted by
San Francisco Wine School
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