29 Oenology Preparatory Programs

Get Your Diploma in Wine and Spirits in Bordeaux. Study in the heart of France’s wine capital and earn your Wine Consultant Diploma, taught entirely in English. Obtain an official French state certification and become a certified Wine Professional with CAFA Wine School, one of the world’s best wine and sommelier training programs. Learn from expert sommeliers, explore French vineyards, and start your global career in wine. A Wine Consultant professionally tastes and evaluates wines and spirits, curating product selections with tasting as the primary tool. They identify the best price–quality options for wine importing companies, restaurants, or wine cellars. Graduates of the Wine Consultant Diploma can pursue careers as sommeliers, wine bar managers, importers, exporters, brand ambassadors, wine shop owners, wine tourism managers, wine journalists, and more.

In Catering & Cooking become a caterer and learn essential cooking skills. This course provides an opportunity to interact with and learn from very successful, highly qualified, and experienced professionals and master chefs. It also allows you to enter a profession that will continue to prosper for as long as society demands food.

Expertise in Wine Management is a pioneering course, which covers all areas of interest to the wine business, provided by the best professionals in each area.

The Master's course in Italian Cuisine and Oenology – Level I is divided into two parts: the first consists of theoretical-practical lessons at ICIF Headquarters and educational field trips; the second, consists of a professional internship (optional), at a restaurant selected by the school.

This program will provide foundational knowledge and skills for the next generation of wine-grape growers and wine producers in the Sierra Nevada foothills region of northern California. The program offers introductory training appropriate for local and regional wine-related employment opportunities and further training at 4-year programs in viticulture and oenology.

This certificate program offers students the opportunity to learn about the complex and vast wine industry, paving the way for a potential future global wine world. Wine studies courses generally include field studies to vineyards and wineries in the region.

Introduction to main syles of wines available to front-line staff. The principles of wine and food compatibility. Sensory appraisal of wine characteristics and quality.

An introductory course that takes you on a wine journey around South Africa revealing the great wine growing regions of the Cape, wine styles and the effect of wine on the taste of food.

The New Zealand School of Food & Wine is the only Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) authorized provider in New Zealand offering a 32-week classroom-based teaching program. This intensive program offers hospitality professionals or wine enthusiasts an NZQA Accredited Level 6 Diploma alongside the internationally recognized WSET qualifications.

This curriculum is designed to prepare individuals for various careers in brewing, distillation, and fermentation. Classroom instruction, practical laboratory applications of brewing, distillation, and fermentation principles and practices are included in the study program.

The French Wine Scholar Study and Certification program provides current, accurate and in-depth information on the wines and wine regions of France.

The Italian Wine Scholar Study and Certification program curriculum is an Italian wine education program designed to provide committed students of wine with the most advanced and comprehensive specialization program in Italy bar none! It was created by native Italian, Maurizio Brioggi,

The student receives a full course in the world of wine. Nora Grillone us to know, understand, and enjoy drinking wine, taking the complicated and making something formal and simple, beautiful and easy to enjoy.

An in-depth course on South African wine covers red and white wine viticulture, winemaking, sweet and sparkling wines, fortified wines and distillation.

This course applies to any staff working where alcohol is sold or served, including all types of hospitality, tourism and events venues, packaged liquor outlets and wineries, breweries and distilleries. RSA training is mandatory for licensees and staff selling, offering or serving liquor for general, on-premises, late night and packaged liquor licences.