Italian PLUS wine tasting

Learn about Italian wines with professional sommeliers

26 to 29 hours per week

This Italian ‘Plus’ Course combines our highly popular General Italian intensive Course with wine tasting sessions (and possibly also combined with cooking lessons).. Getting you involved, this unique add-on programme will give you an even broader understanding of the Italian language at a deeper cultural level.

The wine tasting lessons are given by a professional wine expert / SOMMELIER, who will take you on a tour designed to broaden your knowledge regarding one of Italy’s most typical and traditional products, namely the wine.

Not only will you learn the theory of wine but, above all, how to taste wine and how to match it with various foods. The course may finish with a visit to a wine-cellar where you can learn about various processes used to turn a bunch of grapes into a bottle of wine. Some subjects:

Wine Making in Italy
Production Regions and their difference
How does Soil and Weather influence Wine
The Wine Tradition in Italy and its merge with modern production techniques
The sensory examination and evaluation of wine / tasting stages
Approach to terminology which is used to describe the range of perceivedflavors, aromas and general characteristics of a wine

NEW: Classes are held in our state-of-the-art fully equipped WINE TASTING ROOM

Course fact file:

18 years old+
1-2 weeks at set starting dates
Level: A1+ (elementary+)
20 hours of General Italian + 6 or 9 hours of wine tasting sessions per week OR Italian with a mix of Cooking & Wine i.e. + 6 hours of cooking + 3h of wine tasting
9 AM-1:15 PM + wine tasting sessions confirmed on site
8 persons per class for Italian – 3-12 for the wine tasting sessions
Starting dates: every 1st Monday of the month- other dates possible (see pricelist for details)

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Fact about the courses

1 or 2 weeks programme
2 classes per week> 1st week
3 classes per week> 2nd week
duration of each daily session : 3 hours
2 monthly starting dates all year round
3 monthly starting dates in June, July and September
minimum 3, maximum 12 students per class
the cooking classes 'add-on' can be combined with our wine tasting course

Whats does the course include:

1/2 Day Wine tasting classes
courses taught by professional sommelier in our state-of-the-art tasting room
tasting of 3 DOP wines every lesson
study materials in Italian / English
Exercise tasting notebooks with
sheets for sensorial analysis
ALCE bottle opener
dishes for wine/food mating (only for 2 weeks course)

Food & Wine

The wine tasting classes 'add-on' can be combined with our cooking course taught by our professional Chefs:

3 classes per week (9 hours per week)
2 days of cooking +
1 day of wine tasting

ALCE BOLOGNA Scrl | Language Training Centre | Via Santo Stefano, 164 - 40125 Bologna | Italy

Services provided by “ALCE Bologna s.c.r.l.” | CF e P.Iva 03834841201

Phone +39 051.0560300/051.0560301 | e-mail info@studyitalian.it

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