🇦🇺 Australia
Basic
- Learn the basics of Australian wine and regional laws.
- In 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip arrived at Sydney Cove he bought along Australia’s first grape vines from Brazil and the Cape of Good Hope.
- Chardonnay, Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon are the top 3 varieties crushed.
- Basic Australian wine certificate upon written test.
3 hour class $250.00
Advanced
- Taste and experience extremely limited and reserve wines of Australia.
- Biological farming is a phrase to describe biodynamic and organic farming.
- Both use innovative, non-chemical techniques for farming in harmony with the environment and providing nutrient rich, healthy soils from which healthy produce is grown.
3 hour class $350.00
🇳🇿 New Zealand
Basic
- Learn the basics of New Zealand wine and regional laws.
- A country now well known for its unique, intense style of Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand also produces some excellent Chardonnay and Riesling.New Zealand is now responsible for some good Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but is also beginning to produce Pinot Noir of world-beating quality.
- Basic New Zealand wine certificate upon written test.
3 hour class $250.00
Advanced
- This country is a study in contrasts, from dense forests to breathtaking mountains to rugged coastlines, so it’s no surprise that New Zealand offers a wide range of wine.
- Taste special blends for trade only.
3 hour class $350.00
🇨🇱 Chile
Basic
- Learn the basics of Chile wine and regional laws.
- Among the sub-regions of the Central Valley you’ll find Maule, Maipo, Rapel and Curicó, all of which produce a range of Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc as well as Cabernet, Merlot and Carménère.
- Basic Chile wine certificate upon written test.
3 hour class $250.00
Advanced
- Taste reserve wines and unique blends for trade only.
- 300 cases produced a year. Limited production.
- Chile’s climate is highly influenced by the cooling effect of the Pacific Ocean and the Humboldt current that begins in the icy waters near Antarctica and flows up the western coast of South America. Curiously, when the effect of the Humboldt’s cold current hits Chile’s northern coastline it produces clouds and fog, but little or no precipitation, which then contributes to making the Atacama Desert the driest on Earth!
3 hour class $350.00
🇦🇷 Argentina
Basic
- Learn the basics of Argentina wine and regional laws.
- Argentina has eight principal wine regions, but Mendoza dominates, producing over 70% of Argentina’s wines.
- Basic Argentina wine certificate upon written test.
3 hour class $250.00
Advanced
- Taste unique samples of special blends for trade only.
- Wine production and consumption in Argentina dates back to more than 400 years ago, when the first specimens of Vitis vinifera were brought to America by the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century. Catholic priests who came to America planted vineyards around their monasteries so as to ensure the provision of wine for the celebration of Holy Mass.
- Become an expert of cutting edge new world wines.
3 hour class $350.00
🇿🇦 South Africa
Basic
- All wine grape varieties cultivated in South Africa belong to the species vitis vinifera, which were originally imported from Europe.
- Around Cape Town is Stellenbosch, responsible for probably the Cape’s finest red wines, although there are a range of styles produced here. Although responsible for less than a fifth of all wine production, it is undoubtedly the center of the South African wine industry.
- Basic south Africa wine certificate upon written test.
3 hour class $250.00
Advanced
- In 1973, with the introduction of the Wine of Origin System, South Africa’s wine lands were divided into a series of official Regions, districts, wards and estates.
- We have the oldest and select estates to sample along with unique blends and styles unknown to the US market.
3 hour class $350.00