Champagne Master-Level - Excerpts 2

Master the wines of Champagne and study under world-renowned regional experts.                    

Explore Champagne through a comprehensive study program designed for wine professionals & serious hobbyists. Enjoy instruction from a panel of world renowned Champagne experts in a unique and dynamic online course.

 Fully updated program with live webinars launches Jan. 21^st 2019. Register now!

Excerpts pulled from the 2015 Champagne Master-Level program:

The Champagne Master-Level Online programs include:

• Preparatory reading assignments, online study modules and review quiz
• 15 live and recorded webinars by expert Champagne instructors
• A copy of the Champagne Master-Level Study Manual
• Reading and tasting assignments to accompany each lecture
• Online review quizzes
• Access to instructors via the Q&A forum
• Online, proctored exam: candidates need to be equipped with a webcam, audio system to take the online exam.

Tuition for this Master-Level program is $495.00 and includes study manual, online study program and online exam. Registration is valid for a full year from date of registration

STUDY UNDER TRUE CHAMPAGNE EXPERTS AND MASTERFUL INSTRUCTORS... 

• Essi Avellan MW
  Editor of FINE Champagne magazine, chair of Decanter World Wine Awards’ Champagne panel and revising editor of Christie’s World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine by Tom Stevenson.
• Peter Liem
  Award-winning author of Champagne, author and publisher of ChampagneGuide.net and former senior correspondent for Wine and Spirits.
• Steve Charters MW
  Former Professor of Champagne Management, Reims Management School and current Professor of Wine Marketing at School of Wine & Spirits Business at Burgundy School of Business.
• Charles Curtis MW
  Former head of wine for Christie’s in both Asia and the Americas, founder of the Institute of Master of Wine’s annual champagne tasting, author and columnist.
• Robert Walters
  Owner of Bibendum Wine Co., vineyard owner and award-winning author of Bursting Bubbles: A Secret History of Champagne.
• Carl Edmund Sherman
  International development consultant for Champagne brands and Champagne ambassador.
• Patrick Schmitt MW
  Editor-in-chief at The Drinks Business and a specialist on Champagne, visiting the region regularly, chairing the Champagne Masters, editing the annual Champagne Report, and author of original research into the changing sugar levels in Brut NV Champagne over a 21-year period for his MW dissertation.

Essi Avellan MW	Charles Curtis MW	Peter Liem	Steve Charters MW
Carl Sherman	Robert Walters	Sharon McLean, WSETdip, FWS, IWS	Patrick Schmitt MW

Webinar Topics:

• Champagne History: Steve Charters MW
• Growing the Grapes: Carl Edmund Sherman
• Sub-Regional Studies: Côte des Blancs & Montagne de Reims: Peter Liem
• Sub-Regional Studies: Vallée de la Marne & Other Sub-regions: Peter Liem
• Making Champagne and the Sensory Impact of Choices:  Essi Avellan MW
• Blending and Balance: Essi Avellan MW
• House Styles : Essi Avellan MW
• The Development and Organisation of the Champagne Industry: Steve Charters MW
• Branding, Distributing and Selling Champagne: Steve Charters MW
• Champagne and the World of Fizz: Essi Avellan MW
• Champagne Who’s Who: Charles Curtis MW
• The Growth of the Growers:  Robert Walters
• Vintage, Prestige & Icon Cuvées: Charles Curtis MW
• What Price Champagne? Charles Curtis MW
• The Changing Face of Champagne: Steve Charters MW
• The Changing Taste of Champagne: Patrick Schmitt MW

This is, in scope and design, the most comprehensive wine study program on Champagne bar none. Through this program, students will acquire a profound knowledge of the region and develop a greater sensory understanding of its wines.

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Fully updated program with live webinars launches Jan. 21^st 2019. Register now!

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