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Lifestyle Food & Beverage Wine Appreciation and Oenology

Wine Primer - Learn wine from a Certified Sommelier

An engaging intro to wine that turns you into an overnight expert. You've never taken a wine course like this before!
Highest Rated
Rating: 4.9 out of 54.9 (22 ratings)
89 students
Created by Kyle Weeks
Last updated 10/2020
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Become a wine expert in two hours
  • Pick wines with confidence in all situations—from the restaurant to the housewarming party
  • How to articulate what you like and don't like with confidence
  • What “terroir” is and why it’s such a big deal
  • How wine is made & why it matters
  • How to read a wine label
  • The most important wine gear and how to use it
  • How to see, smell, and taste wine to maximize the experience
  • The most important white and red grapes
  • How to pair wine and food

Requirements

  • No

Description

The idea for Wine Primer came from friends constantly asking for me to teach them wine! It's a distillation of the most important and practical things I've learned about wine throughout my journey becoming a sommelier.

I can't tell you how much I wish this course existed when I got started in wine. It would have saved me SO much time, money, and effort.

Plus, most wine courses out there are overly academic and boring—but not Wine Primer! 

I hope you enjoy!

Who this course is for:

  • Wine beginners
  • Wine lovers who want to learn more
  • People who want to make more informed wine buying decisions
  • People who attend or host a lot of dinner parties and want to be more thoughtful about the wine they bring/serve
  • People who get anxious when they walk into a wine store or see a long wine list
  • People who have ever felt embarrassed to not know much of anything about wine

Course content

10 sections • 47 lectures • 2h 7m total length

  • Preview02:29
  • What this course will give you
    04:15
  • Making the most of this course
    01:28
  • Pre-course quiz: an explanation
    00:14
  • Pre-course quiz
    30 questions

  • Intro: why there are so many myths about wine
    00:43
  • "Wine is difficult"
    02:14
  • "Wine has to be memorized"
    02:17
  • "Wine is a game of right and wrong"
    01:23
  • "Wine is pretentious"
    01:56

  • Preview01:26
  • Wine is place
    04:21
  • Wine is time
    03:37
  • Wine is people and their decisions
    01:32
  • Apply: go taste different terroirs
    02:19

  • Intro: great winemaking is like great cooking
    00:41
  • Vitification (grape growing)
    03:14
  • Vinification (winemaking)
    03:37
  • Apply: find a favorite producer
    00:21

  • Preview01:12
  • "Old World" versus "New World"
    01:44
  • Place and quality level
    04:44
  • Organic, natural, biodynamic, vegan, and beyond
    03:29
  • The "spirit" of a wine
    01:20
  • Apply: go read some labels
    00:44

  • Intro: "goal-driven" wine drinking
    02:26
  • Preview03:48
  • Tips for buying wine in a restaurant
    06:43
  • Essential wine gear and how to use it: refrigeration
    03:12
  • Essential wine gear and how to use it: the wine key
    04:19
  • Essential wine gear and how to use it: glassware
    04:16
  • Apply: open some bottles at home
    00:48

  • Intro: experiencing common (and uncommon) grapes
    01:32
  • How to see wine
    03:19
  • How to smell wine
    04:56
  • How to taste wine
    07:13
  • The most common white wine grapes (part 1)
    05:42
  • The most common white wine grapes (part 2)
    04:12
  • The most common red wine grapes (part 1)
    07:11
  • The most common red wine grapes (part 2)
    06:15
  • Apply: host a tasting
    00:58

  • Intro: why wine and food
    00:38
  • Why you should pair intentionally
    02:23
  • Preview02:20
  • Apply: cook a dish and pair it
    00:57

  • Identifying and articulating what you like (and letting that change)
    02:29

  • Post-course quiz
    00:08
  • Post-course quiz
    30 questions
  • Thank you
    00:34

Instructor

Kyle Weeks
Certified Sommelier, Culinary School Grad
Kyle Weeks
  • 4.9 Instructor Rating
  • 22 Reviews
  • 89 Students
  • 1 Course

In 2016, Kyle Weeks left his finance job at Apple to move to New York City to attend culinary school on a James Beard Scholarship. While there, he realized his culinary school had a top-tier wine program. Kyle completed the wine program, studying under ten Master Sommeliers en route to becoming a Certified Sommelier.

He's passionate about teaching people the fundamentals of wine so they don't have to "learn it the hard way."

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