Online Wine Education Center | Online Wine Courses

Wine Foundation

The Wine Foundation Program focuses on sensory evaluation and blind tasting, giving our students a skill set that most sommeliers and wine professionals do not possess: the ability to be able to identify wine varietals and styles by smell and taste.

This lauded program is a full semester long and culminates in certification by the American Wine Foundation.

Intermediate Certificate

The Intermediate Wine Course is a study of wine regions and varietals. For the student who is looking to push their wine education into overdrive, we recommend taking both programs in the same semester.

Both the Foundation and Intermediate programs also have a online wine course component for our students, free of charge.

Advanced Wine Program

The Advanced Wine Certificate Program is organized into six semesters of classes. To earn your Advanced Certificate, the student must complete only four sections.

Topics include the following: Classic Terroir, Modern Winemaking, Italian Wine Regions, Traditions in French Wine, The New Spanish Wine, and The Concept of Cult Wines.

The Diploma Oenotropae

Our wine diploma program, the Oenotropae is named after the granddaughters of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. While they could turn water into wine, this diploma program transforms wine into knowledge.

To earn the diploma, the student must complete all three certificates (Foundation, Intermediate, and Advanced) along with a a senior project and a four month internship.

The entire diploma will take the typical student two years to complete.

Continue through this site for more detailed information regarding each program. You can also contact Keith Wallace directly at 1-800-817-7351 x55 or email him at learn@vinology.com