Sparkling Wine Production

These courses are an exciting new opportunity for those in the wine industry to upskill by refreshing knowledge or learning new skills.

This course has a mixture of lectures, seminars, guided tastings and site visits, to bring knowledge and a detailed understanding of how viticultural and oenological decisions can affect the quality of sparkling wines produced with different techniques.

Topics covered:

• An overview of different sparkling wine production methods ands styles (e.g. bottle fermented, tank fermented, carbonation, etc.)
• Sparkling wine viticulture; site selection, varieties, culture methods, harvest
• Sparkling winemaking; harvest criteria, fruit processing, first and second fermentations, malolactic fermentation, blendingageing and finishing, bottling, yeast autolysis, riddling & disgorging
• The organoleptic evaluation of sparkling wines of different styles and regions