COURSE CURRICULUM

​This 2-hour course is designed to educate and empower your staff to confidently speak about and sell wine in your space.

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• What's in the bottle?

  • Winemaking and Viticulture​

  • Wine Styles

• Grape Varieties

  • Learn about the characteristics of the most common wine grape varieties in the world.

  • Discover where they are commonly grown and how they are influenced by “terroir”.

• Deductive Tasting 

  • Taste two wines blind and learn about the process of Deductive Tasting.

• Wine Service

  • How to properly open and serve a bottle of still wine.​

  • How to properly open and serve a bottle of sparkling wine.

  • How to sell a second (or third!) glass or bottle.

• Wrap Up

  • Course ​Review

  • Next ​Steps for Education

  • Wine Essentials Final Exam