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Wine Fundamentals

Our Wine Fundamentals class is a 1-day seminar to help prepare those who have no experience with wine or feel they need some preparation, or a remedial short-course, before attending the Level 1 Wine Seminar.

Wine Fundamentals: Wine Components & Basics

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This 1-day course presents an overview of the fundamentals of red, white, rosé, fortified, sparkling, and late harvest wines through a series of wine evaluation exercises and lectures.

You will:

  • Learn about still, effervescent, fortified, and late harvest wines
  • Receive an overview of wine making
  • Learn basic wine terminology
  • In this one-day short course you will:
    • Learn basic wine evaluation techniques
    • Learn wine visual evaluation
    • Learn about wine smell evaluation via a smell exercise of the 30 most common smells in wine
    • Learn about wine taste evaluation via a taste exercise to learn how to
      distinguish tannins, acids, sugars and alcohol in wine
  • Taste 8+ wines
  • Receive 20 pages of educational material

Lunch is provided as part of your tuition. If you have any dietary restrictions, please email Sherrie at srobbins@internationalwineguild.com and accommodations will be made. 

There are no educational or experience prerequisites for this introductory course. You may bypass this short-course and begin your education with the Level I Wine Certification Seminar if you feel you do not need a basic introductory course on wine.

This seminar does not offer a certification and there is no exam after finishing this seminar.

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