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A complete training course with tastings and fun workshops that leads to recognised certification.
Training objectives
- Understand and interpret Champagne labels
- Know how to describe and assess Champagne wines
- Know how to store and serve Champagne in optimum conditions
- Be able to recommend a Champagne by ascertaining the customer’s expectations and needs and drawing up an appropriate range of suggestions
- Know how to pair food and Champagne
The benefits of this course
- You will put the skills you have learned into practice in the workshops
- You will develop the advisory skills needed to carry out professional activities such as recommending, serving, selling and buying Champagne and managing a cellar
- This course is created and managed by the Comité Champagne, which guarantees verified and up-to-date content, as well as the assurance of a global vision of Champagne
The Champagne Specialist training
- Session 1:
- Introduction, tasting basics, food and wine pairing
- Practical workshop: The perfect pairing
- Session 2:
- Champagne terroir
- Practical workshop: The Champagne game
- Session 3:
- The Champagne Method
- Practical workshop: The cellar master
- Session 4:
- Advice, service and storage
- Practical workshop: The wine shop manager
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Examination for the Champagne Specialist Certificate
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3 Champagne wines will be tasted in each session
This certification is aimed at professionals and students : wine shop staff, sommeliers, catering professionals, food distribution professionals, executives/buyers/sellers in the wine and spirits sector, wine industry professionals, tourism professionals, wine journalists, importers, wine trainers, students in the hotel, catering and luxury goods industries, etc.
A minimum of 7 hours of preparation :
- Complete the E-Learning Champagne (level 2 or 3)
- Careful reading of the Learner’s Guide for the Champagne Specialist course
21 hours of which 14 hours face-to-face
- Theory test – 1 hour
- 30 multiple choice questions (30 minutes - 30 points)
- 2 open questions (30 minutes - 30 points)
- Practical test – 45 minutes
- Tasting of two identified Champagne wines (40 points)
- Description of the characteristics of the Champagne tasted
- Presentation of a sales argument to promote this Champagne
- Suggestion and explanation of a harmonious food and Champagne pairing
- Tasting of two identified Champagne wines (40 points)
- Marking scheme:
- Less than 54%: Fail
- From 55% to 69%: Pass
- From 70% to 79%: Good
- Above 80%: Excellent
