Course Description
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 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 "This is a gift" at the checkout.
Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.
Course outline
How to taste
Important grapes and fundamental wine styles
The world of wine
Having more fun with your food
Choose how you want to learn
The Expert option
RecommendedDevelop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition from Amelia Singer
- Start course whenever you like
- 4 weeks tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
- 4 assignments marked by Amelia Singer
- Certificate of completion
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 4 lessons with expert videos & notes
- Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$200The Peer option
Discover the benefits of group learning in an online interactive classroom of no more than 20 people. Get the most from shared knowledge and community study
- Start course whenever you like
- Practise what you learn with your peers
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 4 lessons with expert videos & notes
- 4 course assignments
- Group chat & direct message classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$75
Food & Drink classroom - how it works
Start anytime
Watch video tutorials led by expert tutors
Test yourself
Practice what you learn with inspiring assignments
Personal tuition
Get assignment feedback from expert tutors
Share ideas
Collaborate and chat directly to classmates
Meet Amelia Singer
Her diverse range of skills and services means that Amelia was recently shortlisted for the IWSC Wine Communicator of the Year Award. This is the most prestigious, international award that one can be awarded for Wine Education and Communication.
Amelia is a new young, female voice in wine and she has made it her aim to demystify the snobbery around wine and empower people when it comes to making wine decisions – either in a supermarket aisle or when the wine list is handed to you on a first date. Wine can be extremely serious and intellectual but she is adamant it is meant to be fun. Quietly confident and yet elegantly understated, Amelia is part of a new generation of women in food & drink making wine fun and accessible.
Amelia has been in the wine industry for the last nine years and has completed the prestigious WSET Wine Diploma. She studied at Trinity College in Dublin, was brought up in England but has lived and worked in Europe and South America. Having worked in wineries all around the world (Bordeaux, Rioja and Chile) as well as with well known retailers, importers, online Fine Wine merchants and exciting new wine start ups, she has gained a holistic appreciation of the wine industry.
Amelia also hosts monthly wine supper clubs in her own home in Notting Hill as well as regular tastings with restaurants, bars, corporate entertainment and inside private homes. Her keen interest in pairing music with wine has seen her co-host wine and music events with the City Of London Sinfonia, Garsington Opera, Omnibus Performing Arts Centre in Clapham, Jazz wine nights with the singer Lucinda Belle and even sing herself at the O2 Academy Islington for the wine trade’s annual charity event SKIN CONTACT Live.