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Wine in 9: The Complete Wine Tasting Course by Udemy
Winemaker Mike Mazey's unique guide to maximizing enjoyment and confidence when buying, drinking and talking about wine
Course Highlights
- Learn to connect the grapegrowing and winemaking processes to what you are smelling and tasting in your glass.
- Go step-by-step through the process of tasting.
- Discover techniques for training both your palate and your memory for detecting aromas and flavours.
- Learn a unique 3-step approach to building and expanding your wine knowledge over your lifetime.
- Collect ideas for your next wine tasting by replicating some of the demonstrations in the course.
- Learn not just the label jargon but the approaches to classifying quality that underpin them.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
5 Topics
Introduction to the course
Basic wine equipment
Serving temperatures
Easily confused wine words
Section 1
8 Topics
How grapes are grown
Organic and biodynamic wines
What makes for a great vintage?
Red wine production
Making tea: red wine and rosé
White winemaking
Tasting notes and linking cause to effect
Section 2
10 Topics
The 7 S's of wine tasting
Describing a wine's appearance
Where do wine aromas come from?
Blind tasting and the colour of aromas
Tastes versus flavours
Appearance: tears/legs
How to write tasting notes
Wine textures
Improving your palate
Section 3
6 Topics
Ripeness
Varietally-driven wines
Process-driven wines
Terroir-driven wines and wine complexity
Terroir examples
Section 4
5 Topics
Opening sparkling wine
Varietally-driven sparkling wine
Process-driven sparkling wine
Terroir-driven sparkling Wine
Section 5
6 Topics
Varietally-driven still wines – part 1
Varietally-driven still wines – part 2
Process-driven still wines
Process-driven still sweet wines
Terroir-driven still wines
Section 6
4 Topics
Varietally-driven fortified wine
Process-driven fortified wine
Terroir-driven fortified wine
Section 7
4 Topics
Vinotypes
Wine and food myths
Wine and food pairing principles
Section 8
5 Topics
Wine labelling
Allergens and wines for vegans and vegetarians
How to buy wine
Reasons to reject wine
Section 9
1 Topic
Bonus Lecture: Taking your wine knowledge to the next level
Wine in 9: The Complete Wine Tasting Course
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