Find the Best Texas Wines – Sign Up for the Specialist of Texas Wine Level 1 Class
What: Specialist of Texas Wine – Certification Level 1 Class. This Class is offered as part of the Texas Wine Schools regional wine specialists classes (United States). Click here for registration.
Where: The Texas Wine School, 2301 Portsmouth St, Houston, TX 77098; tele: (713) 828-7767.
When: This class will meet three times for 3 hours each time: Weds. October 19th and 26th, and Thurs. November 3rd (evenings).
Instructor: Dr. Russ Kane, award-winning Texas writer, author and Texas wine aficionado. Click here for Dr. Kane’s bio. The class will also feature guest presenters actively involved in Texas grape growing and wineries.
Details:
Specialist of Texas Wine is a first-of-its kind program that offers a comprehensive series of classes featuring the unique wines and wine regions of Texas. Never before has there been a wine program with specific classes focused solely on Texas focusing on their history, modern development and context with wines from major regions around the world (new world and old).
The program exposes students to unique landscapes of the major wine regions in Texas: Texas High Plains, Texas Hill Country, Texoma, Escondido Valley, and Davis Mountains AVAs, as well as non-AVA regions of East Texas and Gulf Coast. This learning and tasting intensive program features important topics critical to the success of today’s wine professionals and savvy consumers that are looking for the best wines and wine values that Texas now has to offer.
This three-part class will cover:
Details of each wine region, including location, geologic history, soils, climate and leading grape varieties grown in the region;
The evolution of Texas winemaking from its early Spanish and immigrant European period (1600-1800) and early post-Prohibition (1940-1990) and modern period (1990-present), with a focus on winemaking techniques and grape varieties;
The links and contrasts between Texas wines and their old & new world counterparts through lectures and guided and blind tastings with benchmark wines.
Each class will have a representative from the Texas wine industry’s grape growing, winemaking or winery owner communities in Texas that will be available to provide first-hand knowledge, Q&A and guided tasting. The guided tastings will include over 20 Texas and benchmark wines. Tastings will include a range of grape varieties and blends originating from northern Europe (France & Germany), Mediterranean (Italy, S. France, Spain, Portugal) and hybrid wines from Texas and other American appellations. These tastings will help students understand the distinctions of wines from selected Texas regions and grape varieties and their attributes versus their counterparts in the American and global wine world.
The program concludes with an opportunity to test your knowledge of the wines, regions and laws on an exam. The credential will be awarded to those that pass the rigorous exam at the end of the series with a score of 80% or higher.
This Specialist of Texas Wine Level 1 Certification Class is open for registration online or by phone directly from The Texas Wine School. Don’t wait, the last class in January of this year was sold out. Click here for registration.
