Wine Appreciation

Join wine expert and presenter from The Wine Show, Amelia Singer, as she teaches you about wine appreciations - including how to taste wine, choose wine and pair wine with food. Think you know your Nebbiolo from your Counoise grape variety? What year would be the best Riesling to sip on? In this wine course Amelia will give you an understanding of grapes, wine and wine regions, so you can be confident about choosing wine, when to choose white wine, red wine, or rose wine and combining wine with food. Plus she'll explain the "coffee test" which will help you uncover wines that suit your palate (and amaze your friends!) The course is filmed in London based winery ‘London Cru’ with winemaker Alex Hurley. Alex is a Master of Enology and Viticulture, and a key member of the London Cru Winery team, working with quality English grapes. We will also explore how to pair wine with food, with Leith’s School of Food and Drink’s resident chef, Dan Cameron. The course will cover wines from California, Australia, France, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, UK and Argentina. You'll be discovering different wines from different grapes including Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Grigio, Viognier, Pinot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot and Sangiovese. You'll learn: how to taste wine about grape varieties and wine styles famous wine regions from around the world and the types of wine they produce how to pair wine with food The course includes: 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Amelia Singer lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like downloadable lesson notes practical wine tasting and choosing projects (with tutor feedback available) access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas Time to complete the wine appreciation course: Every student is different, but in general, we think the whole course will take around 8 hours and 30 minutes to complete including: Video lessons: 2 hours 30 minutes in total Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson Your wine appreciation assignments: at least 1 hour per lesson Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson You'll need: You'll be tasting wine along with Amelia, if you wish to buy any of the wines featured, to accompany this course (recommended), you can do so from http://londoncru.co.uk/wine Ready to get started? Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Amelia on your wine appreciation and assignments. If you know someone who'd love this course, then give it as a gift - just tick "I want to send this as a gift" at the checkout. Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the green speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.