Amelia Singer

Wine Appreciation

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Level: Peer






What’s the difference between Peer and Expert levels?

Both Peer and Expert levels provide:

  • Video lessons led by an expert tutor
  • Downloadable lesson notes
  • Practice assignments
  • Group learning in a 20-student online classroom
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes, and classroom

The Expert level additionally includes:

  • Personalized feedback and coaching from your tutor
  • Private messaging with your tutor
  • Certificate of completion
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Level: Peer

Course overview

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.

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Lesson summary

How to taste
Join Amelia and Rebecca in an interactive tasting and learn which kinds of wines match your palate and how you can get the most out of your glass. In this lesson you will be guided through a variety of styles of wine in an esteemed London based winery. You will be encouraged to understand your own palate, enabling you to choose consistently satisfying wine. You will be introduced to the ‘Coffee test’ experiment’, master wine tasting techniques and decode wine tasting terms to ensure that you can talk the talk in any wine situation. By the end of this lesson you will be able to decode, analyse and know how to pick the kind of wines you and your friends will most enjoy. Bottles suggested: An off dry gewurtztraminer or muscat, unoaked fresh Pinot Grigio, an opulent Viognier or fleshy Pinot Blanc, oaked Chardonnay.
Important grapes and fundamental wine styles
Even the same grape can express itself drastically differently depending on where it has grown and what the winemaker does with it. With Amelia’s characteristic enthusiasm you will be guided around the 10 most significant grapes and appreciate their different expressions around the world. Wine making techniques and a region’s physical factors will all be explored and tips on how to get the best value for each grape will also be included. Bottles suggested: A new world and old world version for the following grapes: Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Grigio, Viognier. Reds: Pinot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot and Sangiovese.
The world of wine
The world of wine like the world around us, is rapidly evolving and changing. Join Amelia in an in depth discussion with London Cru’s winemaker Alex as they discuss the most ‘famous’ regions of the wine world, how you can get best value and how things are changing. In this multi layered discussion traditional categories used in the world of wine will be examined in relation to today’s current climate - culturally as well as geographically. You will understand how certain terroir and regions have dictated styles and trends in the past but why does not necessarily indicate the future of wine. Bottles suggested: English Pinot noir and a 2018 English Bacchus
Having more fun with your food
This class is filmed at Leiths Cookery school where Amelia pairs up with one of the school’s chefs to work out how best wine and food can complement and enhance each other. Under Amelia’s guidance you will come to understand the wording and layout of a restaurant wine list, be able find a wine based on your budget and have confidence choosing a wine depending on the occasion. Bottles suggested: Sauvignon Blanc from the loire, Creamy rich chardonnay, Lambrusco. These will be opened and tasted.

Choose how you want to learn

Expert-level

Develop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition:

  • Start the course whenever you like
  • Tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
  • Certificate of completion and CPD learning hours
  • Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
  • Lessons with expert videos & notes
  • Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom

Peer-level

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
  • Lessons with videos & notes
  • Course assignments
  • Group chat & direct message classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
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Amelia Singer

TV presenter and wine writer who demystifies wine, making it fun and accessible for all.

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Why choose Learning with Experts?

Start whenever it suits you, and immerse yourself in motivational lesson tutorials with expert guidance.
Enhance your learning and personal growth with lesson assignments. Each course includes an optional assignment at the end of every lesson.
Drop a friendly message or respond to your assignment feedback. Our world-class experts are just a click away, ready to help you!
Stay informed about your own progress and those of your peers, and take joy in celebrating achievements along the way.
Chat and share ideas with passionate communities of learners from around the world.

Frequently asked questions

What’s the difference between PEER and EXPERT levels?

At Peer and Expert level, you get access to the same core content and features:

  • Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
  • Downloadable lesson notes
  • Option to practise what you learn with lesson assignments
  • Group learning within an online interactive classroom of up to 20 classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes and classroom

If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:

  • Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
  • Opportunity to interact with your expert tutor through a private messaging system
  • Certificate of completion.
What is an online classroom?

Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.

You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.

This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.

When can I start my course and how long will it take?

You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.

Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.

How often can I speak with the Expert?

If you opt for the Expert version of your course, the time you have to interact with your tutor is limited to course length. You will have one week per lesson to chat to your tutor and to have your assignments marked, and during this period you can ask them as many questions as you would like.

To find out the length of each course, head to the product page and look at the Course outline to see how many lessons it contains. e.g. a four lesson course assumes that you will have completed the assignments within four weeks.

Your tutor interaction period will start as soon as you enter the classroom. If you find that you are struggling to complete the assignments in the allocated time or you wish to put this function on hold, just get in contact with one of the team via the support button and we will help you out.

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