FormatOnline + in person
Duration2 Weeks
SessionsOne to one
BatchJust you
Fee₹25,000
Who it is for
Is this for you?
- Wine lovers who want to go deeper with one-to-one guidance
- Grape growers and founders planning a winery or a wine brand
- Hotel, restaurant and retail teams building a wine list
- Brewers and distillers adding wine to their range
By the end
What you walk away with.
- Straight answers to your own wine questions
- A clear view of how wine is made and what shapes its taste
- A tasting method you can use on any wine
- A one-page plan for your project or your next step in wine
Your instructors and point of contact
Who teaches this course and who to ask.
Syllabus
Week by week.
2 weeks. One-to-one sessions at times that suit you, online or in person. One assignment a week.
Week 01. Your questions and the basics
- We start from your brief: the questions, project or wines you bring
- How wine is made, from grape to bottle, at the depth you need
- Grapes, regions and styles, Indian wine included
- Tasting with a method: look, nose, palate and finish
Assignment: Write down the three questions or decisions you most want settled by the end.
Week 02. Your project and next steps
- A deep dive on your project: making, buying, listing or selling wine
- Costs, licences and labels where your project needs them, which vary by state
- Wine with Indian food and serving it in Indian heat
- Where to go next: courses, reading and people to talk to
Assignment: Turn the sessions into a one-page plan for your project or your next step.
How it runs
Format and terms.
- Schedule
- One-to-one sessions at times agreed with you, online or in person in Pune, Delhi, Gurugram or Bengaluru.
- Batch size
- Just you. Every session is one to one.
- Included
- Session recordings, presentation decks, weekly assignments and the learning kit.
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion once every assignment is in and you have attended at least 80% of live sessions.
- Beyond the screen
- Recommended winery visits, so you see how the wine is made.
- Fees
- Paid in full at sign-up. No discounts apply. A package of courses cannot be changed once confirmed.
Want the full flight? All 29 courses together run to 75 weeks. You choose your package when you enrol. Compare all 29 courses and read the refund policy before you pay.
Keep reading
Read before you start
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India's wine regions: Nashik, Nandi Hills and beyond
India grows wine grapes in the tropics, which should not work. Here is how growers make it work.
Wine
Grape varieties every new joiner should know
Nine grapes cover most of what you will see on a wine list or a sales report. Here is what each one tastes like.
Recommended reading
Every guide for this course.
52 free guides on the topics this course covers. Read any of them before the first session.
Wine 38
- Becoming a wine sommelier in India: training and first jobs
- Building a wine list for an Indian restaurant or brewpub
- Cellar hygiene in a small winery: stopping spoilage before it starts
- Choosing wine glasses without buying a full cabinet of them
- Cork, screw cap or synthetic closure: how each one affects wine
- Decanting wine: when it helps and how to do it at home
- Designing a wine label that stands out on Indian store shelves
- Growing wine grapes in a tropical climate with double pruning
- Fruit wines in India: jamun, mango, pineapple and the rules
- How long an opened bottle of wine lasts and how to keep it fresh
- How sparkling wine gets its bubbles
- How winemakers blend wine across varieties and barrels
- Late harvest and dessert wines: how the sweetness is kept
- Malolactic fermentation in wine and what it does to flavour
- Natural, organic and biodynamic wine: what the words really mean
- Oak barrels, chips or staves in winemaking and what each costs
- Orange wine explained: white grapes made the way reds are made
- Ordering wine at a restaurant in India without the stress
- Red wine maceration: getting colour and tannin out of the skins
- Sulphites in wine: why they are added and who should worry
- Sweetness, acidity and tannin in wine
- Why the same wine tastes different from one vintage to the next
- Wine and cheese pairing for beginners, with Indian cheeses too
- Wine pricing and restaurant mark-ups in India, explained
- Serving wine at the right temperature in an Indian summer
- Starting a tasting room and wine tourism at a small Indian winery
- WSET wine qualifications compared, level by level
- Common wine faults, for quality and supply teams
- Old World and New World wine
- Pairing wine with Indian food
- Wine storage and the cold chain in Indian heat
- Winery KPIs: yield per tonne, losses and cellar stock
- Reading a wine label
- Tasting wine without the jargon
- Harvest and vintage: why wine planning runs on one crop a year
- India's wine regions: Nashik, Nandi Hills and beyond
- Red, white, rosé and sparkling: how each wine is made
- How wine is made, from vineyard to bottle
Whisky 4
Drinks business 4
Consultancy 2
Ingredients 1
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