Back Into the Classroom for Wine and Food
Field trips over, it was back to the classroom and the days took on a pattern. The classroom sessions were comprised of about 90 minutes of lecture and about an hour of wine tasting. Let me say here that spitting the wine out was a requirement. I would not have been able to continue with the rest of my day if I was actually imbibing 7 to 9 wines at 1pm! This has actually now become a habit – I find myself looking for the spit cup at a restaurant when I am having wine with dinner (I have to remind myself that I am no longer in class.) Part of our day also includes wine service, which will be part of our certification test. We present and open the various wines each day as if we were doing it at a restaurant, and the students are more than willing to offer constructive criticism to each other.
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