Develop the skills required for the recommending, serving, selling and purchasing of Champagne wines and managing a cellar with the Champagne Specialist programme from the Comité Champagne. A complete training course with tastings and fun workshops that leads to recognised certification.
The Comité Champagne has been carrying out training for 80 years, training over 10,000 professionals and future professionals every year in eight locations around the world both in person and remotely. The Comité Champagne occupies a special place in the world of wine education due to their content resulting from a consensus among all Champagne’s actors.
Training objectives
The benefits of this course
Prerequisites: Please note that A minimum of 7 hours of preparation is required to attend this course which includes online training to a Level 2 certificate standard. Please see further details below.
Duration: 14 hours of classes over three days including a 1-hour practical assessment and 1-hour theory assessment.
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Examination for the Champagne Specialist Certificate
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:
Theory test – 1 hour
Practical test – 45 minutes
14 hours of classes over three days including a 1-hour practical assessment and 1-hour theory assessment.
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