The Drinkable Grape » education http://drinkablegrape.com Liz Pirnat on the Joys of Wine Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 French wine and the French Embassy http://drinkablegrape.com/2008/10/24/french-wine-and-the-french-embassy/ http://drinkablegrape.com/2008/10/24/french-wine-and-the-french-embassy/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:37:49 +0000 Liz Pirnat http://drinkablegrape.com/2008/10/24/french-wine-and-the-french-embassy/ A few weeks ago I attended the First Annual French Wine Academy in DC. I will admit up front I signed up for the networking. The speakers sounded good, but you never know what the actual talk will be on. I have to say, I was very impressed. Overall, the speakers were very informative.

This conference went in great detail on the French wine business. If you have never attended a wine class before, this was not for you. But if you already know the basics of French wine, this conference was definitely for you. The best thing to compare it to would be taking the chapters on France from Tom Stevenson’s Annual Wine Report and making it into a conference.

Every time I attend some wine class or conference I get rediscover something. This time it was Beaujolais. Maybe it was because we tasted three 2000 Beaujolais crus that were outstanding, sadly the 1990 had travel shock. But I did not expect these wines to hold up as well with age as they did. I will be adding more Beaujolais to my classes in the future and personal drinking.

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It looks like later this year or next year there is another new program coming online the Robert Parker/Kevin Zraly Wine Certificate program with three levels. With the final level exam involving a meeting with Parker and Zraly. The best description of the program:

The highest level is intended to provide a realistic alternative to other well-known wine certifications. Reaching that top level will challenge all wine experts.

I’m not sure how I feel about yet another wine education program starting. I support as much education in wine as possible, but I’m concerned the options are becoming to great and some of the options (including current options) are more interested in collecting money and giving certificates than making sure people actually learn something.

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