OCTOBER 2024 COURSE SCHEDULE
Dates: from 14/10/2024, every Monday
Time: 6,00pm - 10,00pm
Location: Radisson Blu Edwardian Vanderbilt Hotel - 1 min walk from Gloucester Rd station
SCHEDULE
1.LESSON - Monday 14/10/2024
Wine Service - Service temperatures - Decanting
Sommelier Tools - Cellar management - Wine List
TASTING: 6 WINES
2.LESSON - Monday 21/10/2024
Viticulture: Vineyard practices – The Vine
TASTING: 6 WINES
3.LESSON - Monday 04/11/2024
Vinification process: White and Red Wines
TASTING: 6 WINES
4.LESSON - Monday 11/11/2024
Sparkling wine, Sweet Wines, Fortified and Flavoured wines
Wine Service Exercise - Sparkling wine bottle opening
TASTING: 6 WINES
5.LESSON - Monday 18/11/2024
Wine Tasting Technique - Deconstructed Tasting Exercise:
Tasting a wine sample plus 5 solutions of glycerine, sugar, alcohol, acid and tannin
OLFACTORY EXERCISE: Flowers and Fruits, Aromatic Herbs and Spices
TASTING: 6 WINES
6.LESSON - Monday 25/11/2024
Wine Tasting Technique - Sensory evaluation and blind tasting practice
Wine Service Exercise - Bottle opening
TASTING: 6 WINES
7.LESSON - Monday 02/12/2024
Beer and Spirits
TASTING: 6 Beers & 8 Spirits
8.LESSON - Monday 09/12/2024
Europe: Rest of the continent
TASTING: 5 WINES
9.LESSON - Monday 16/12/2024
Europe Enography: France - part 1
TASTING: 6 WINES
10.LESSON - Monday 13/01/2025
Europe Enography: France - part 2
TASTING: 6 WINES
11.LESSON - Monday 20/01/2025
Europe Enography: Italy part 1
TASTING: 6 WINES
12.LESSON - Monday 27/01/2025
Europe Enography: Italy part 2
TASTING: 6 WINES
13.LESSON - Monday 03/02/2025
Europe Enography: Italy part 3
TASTING: 6 WINES
14.LESSON - Monday 10/02/2025
International Enography: America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world
TASTING: 6 WINES
15.LESSON - Monday 17/02/2025
Food and Wine Sensory Analysis, pairing technique - Sake production methods, taste olfactory examination, sake tasting, food and sake pairing
PAIRING: FOOD AND WINE
16.LESSON - Monday 24/02/2025
Pasta, Bread, Pizza and Rice - Seafood - Vegetables
PAIRING: FOOD AND WINE
17.LESSON - Monday 03/03/2025
White and Red Meat, Game, Charcuterie
PAIRING: FOOD AND WINE
18.LESSON - Monday 10/03/2025
Cheese, Dessert and Chocolate
PAIRING: FOOD AND WINE
WRITTEN EXAMINATION - Monday 24/03/2025
FINAL EXAM - ORAL EXAMINATION - Monday 07/04/2025
PRICE - The 5 month course costs £1900 and is payable in three instalments to help you spread the cost. Alternatively, you can pay the initial deposit of £550 and then spread the rest of the cost in 5 months with monthly standing order payment of £270. The monthly standing orders MUST BE confirmed arrangements with your bank.
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£550.00 due by 1st September
£675.00 due by 25/11/2024
£675.00 due by 20/01/2025
This fee includes everything you need to complete the course:
tasting of more than 100 wines, food matching, 3 books, notebooks.