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Wine 101 is a FREE OnLine Wine Education Course Includes: Dionysus vs Diogenes | Why Wine? | Wine & Health | Social History | Sensory User's Manual | Wine Growing | Wine Making | Varietal Profiles | Sparkling Wine Consumerism information on Bottle Shapes and Sizes, Reading Labels, Selecting and Buying Strategies, Recommendations for Corkscrews and Glassware, Serving Order and Temperature, Cellaring, etc. Taste includes the compiled Wine Tasting Notes from our monthly panel, Reports on public tasting events and a Food & Wine section with Pairing Suggestions and even some wine-friendly Recipes. Aftertaste includes one section we call "Wrath", serving our Opinions and Editorials, and another we titled "Bacchanalia", with our Reading List suggestions and pages of Links to additional wine information. About contains information on Site Conventions used, stories of the Group Formation & Website Genesis, Acclaim & Awards, Biographic Sketches of our Tasting Panelists and Contact & Sponsor information. Return to the starting point.

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Educators & Courses
These links target paid-enrollment courses and seminars that are either Online, Occasional, or Informal. Please see also the Academia links for regular, ongoing, formal educational institutions offering wine curriculum and research.

Affairs of the Vine (San Francisco)
American Society of Enology & Viticulture
American Wine Society (many regional chapters)

Aprender Espagñol...Aprendiendo sobre Vinos
(learn the Spanish language while learning about Argentine wines in Buenos Aries)
Association of Wine Educators (UK)
Australian Society of Wine Education

Beringer Masters Series on Food & Wine
"new". Bruce Cass Winelab (San Francisco)

Chicago Wine School
CorkDork U. (St. Louis)

Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, NY, and St. Helena, CA)

DMJ Wineworks (Bordeaux)
Drink Great Wine
(San Francisco)

Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center (Boston University)

Institute of Masters of Wine (professional / career course)

"new". International Wine Guild (Denver, CO - variety of career & consumer courses)

Learn About Wine (Santa Monica)

Manhattan Wine Seminars (Southern California)

"new". O-Chateau (wine tasting in Paris, tours)

OportoWines.com (Port info)

Pacific Rim Wine Education Center (San Francisco)
"new". Planetavino (Madrid - English-speaking classes and tastings of Spanish wines)

Rhone Rangers

Sensory Evaluation of Wine (Toronto)
SFsommelier (San Francisco)

Society of Wine Educators

The Wine Coach (Laurie Forster, Maryland)

Wine Answers
Wine Education Service (UK)
Wine School of Philadelphia
Wine Spectator School
Wine Tasting Association (Mark Phillips, Wash. D.C.)
Wine & Spirit Education Trust (UK)
Wine Writers' Circle of Canada

"new". indicates a "new" listing (since last page update).

Aural Media
Listen and learn ...

Grape Radio

Whitley on Wine

Wine Experience Radio Show

Wine Fairy / Wine & Dine Radio

Wine Radio Network (weekly show with Spencer Christian)

Self Help
These links are for those who would prefer to set their own pace and march to their own drummer ...

Aroma Dictionary, a product of Recognose, consists of 36 wine-specific aromas embedded on three reusable cards; also offers some free resources for wine tastings.

Gust-Aroma offers three kits that turn learning about wine into a game

RECOMMENDED
How to Pronounce French, German and Italian Wine Names
- phonetic pronunciation for over 15,000 names, terms, regions, grape varieties, etc.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Le Nez du Vin offers 5 separate kits to help train your sense of smell. Each kit includes vials of aromas commonly found in wine (including one of common defects), along with extensive information in the companion literature.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Sensory Science Group (Ohio State University) has up-to-date and easy-to-understand explanations of the science surrounding smell, taste, and other elements of flavor.

Wine Fundamentals is an interactive DVD

Wine Tasting Association (click on "Products")

RECOMMENDED
Wine Handbook
is a resouce and discussion site for wine enthusiasts by Meriel Bladon

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Wine Research offers information on various wines, what foods they compliment, where to find them, what they cost and how media and individuals describe or rate them.

Yum Yuk (take the flavor profile test)

 


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