Wine Education

Wine education doesn’t just entail the accumulation of information about grape species and tasting processes—it is a discovery of history, geography, and science. The correlation between wine and travel is learning the areas that produce it, the climates that make different taste forms, and the choices the winemaker makes; all these things contribute to the character of the wine. With the help of the structure, both professional and nonprofessional learners will have more trust and deeper understanding of wine.

The Institute’s programs include a variety of different topics, like introductory courses that cover tasting fundamentals and a few advanced certifications that go in-depth about viticulture and enology and food pairings that go with them. The learning path offered by establishments like the Wine School of Philadelphia and universities with enology programs as well as industry groups should be the first step in getting an education. Gaining sensory skills is possible through tasting workshops, blind tasting drills, and comparative studies; whereas deep courses on fermentation, aging, and terroir provide technical knowledge.

A tangible route to a job can be obtained by obtaining certifications like the National Wine School’s Advanced programs or by being rewarded a university-backed viticulture degree. However, this formal program is not the only way to get education—one can travel to wine regions, do a grape harvest, or just do wine tasting with intention, which are equally as valuable experiences.

The main purpose of wine education is building the bridge between people. Doing so, it welds traditional ways of doing things with the innovation of technology, and the role of the producer with that of the consumer. And the more one studies, the more things there are to learn, just like in the case of wine and education, which are both infinite quests.