Single course
WSET wine course
Are wines your profession or hobby? This course offers you an insight to sensory assessment and wines. You will learn systematic tasting technique, most important grapes, wine styles and production areas and labeling.
Content
During the course, you are studying according to the WSET® Level 2 Award in Wines course programme. The form of study is lectures that include tasting exercises.
The key content themes are:
• Systematic tasting of wines
• Impact of cultivation and production on the taste, style and quality of wine
• Quality labels for wine regions and labels
• Comparative examination of the main grape varieties and wine regions
• Different types of wines: red, white, rosé, sparkling wines, fortified wines
• Principles relating to the storage and serving of wine
• Basics of matching wine and food
Objectives
The aim of the course is to familiarize you with different types of wines and their general uses.
After completing the course, you
• understand the basics of the wine world: types and styles of wine and the factors affecting them
• have adopted a method of systematic tasting and sensory assessment and are able to use it as a tool for continuous product knowledge;
• understand the basics of storing wine and combining and serving wine and food
Prerequisites
WSET Level 2 Award in Wines course is for those with little or no knowledge of wines. It is a necessary background if you need a comprehensive and concise basic information pack on beverages and their backgrounds in your work.
Additional information
Classroom teaching. During the course, you are studying according to the WSET® Level 2 Award in Wines course programme. The form of study is lectures that include tasting exercises.
Prerequisite: WSET Level 2 Award in Wines course is for those with little or no knowledge of wines. It is a necessary background if you need a comprehensive and concise basic information pack on beverages and their backgrounds in your work.
The course code is MP00BU29-3008. Use the code to view the course schedule at https://lukkarit.peppi.jamk.fi.
Enrolling on open studies requires a Finnish personal identity number and strong identification.
Verify your identity in the Suomi.fi service or with HAKA credentials when you enroll. Otherwise, you will need either a valid passport or an EU ID card with a chip (according to the ICAO 9303 E-MRTD standard). In this case, please contact help.jamk.fi
Please notice that degree students in Jamk who have enrolled for attendance in are not eligible to enroll as Jamk Open UAS students (instead, enrolment in Peppi).
Read more about enrollment and study fees: https://www.jamk.fi/en/apply-to-jamk/jamk-open-university-of-applied-sc…
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