Online Course: Italian Wine Scholar - Prep
Wednesday 12 January 2022
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YOUR FOUNDATION TOWARDS MASTERING ITALIAN WINE
The Italian Wine Scholar (IWS) Prep course is designed to address the needs of the inquisitive wine enthusiast and aspiring wine professional alike. As a foundation course, IWS Prep remains accessible but is content-rich and full of cultural highlights that are as engaging as they are entertaining.
The course provides an introduction to Italy, explores its key wine regions and delivers core information on 39 of the country's need-to-know wines.
IWS Prep is your passport to understanding Italian wine. It also acts as a stepping-stone to the internationally acclaimed Italian Wine Scholar certification program.
WHY CHOOSE THE IWS PREP COURSE?
This engaging and informative course will enable you to:
- Acquire fundamental Italian wine knowledge in just weeks
- Refine your tasting skills
- Master the essential grapes and appellations of Italy’s major wine regions
- Navigate the seemingly complicated Italian wine classification system
- Be perfectly poised to continue your studies with the prestigious Italian Wine Scholar (IWS) Certification Program
- Identify the location of the profiled appellations on a map of Italy
- Describe the style of each of the wines covered in the session
- Recall the main grape varieties associated with each wine covered in the session
- Understand how key environmental factors have influenced the style of the wines
- Recall vinification and aging techniques that contribute to the style of the wines
- Decrypt the meaning of key labelling terms
- Live online tuition with an expert West London Wine School tutor (a series of three 2.5 hour classes)
- Extensive tasting (20+ wines will be tasted as part of this course, sent to students as 50ml samples)
- A beautifully designed 125-page, landscape-format coursebook - The Wines of Italy: Glass by Glass.
- Access to high-quality e-learning activities designed to enrich the coursebook and support different learning styles; these activities include interactive e-learning modules with additional cultural highlights and quizzes.
- An optional exam (the exam will be hosted IN-PERSON. Please see full course schedule for more details)
- Online Lesson: Wednesday 12th January 2022, 7pm - 9:30pm The wines of Northern Italy
- Online Lesson: Wednesday 19th January 2022, 7pm - 9:30pm The wines of Central Italy
- Online Lesson: Wednesday 26th January 2022, 7pm - 9:30pm The wines of Southern Italy
- In-Person Optional Exam*: Wednesday 2nd February 2022, 7pm - 7:45pm
- Tasting kit delivery can be made to anywhere within the UK. Currently deliveries to outside the UK are not available.
Event details
Date
Wednesday 12 January
to Wednesday 17 April 2024
Time
19:00
to 17:10
Type
Wine course
Cost
£375
Booking required
Yes
Venue details
71 Townmead Road London