Course contents

D 1: Wine Production
The vine; growing environment; style, quality and price; approaches to grape growing; grape growing options; grape yields and quality; wine components; winemaking options; postfermentation options; quality control procedures

D 2: Wine Business
Supply and demand; costs; legislation; currency exchange; types of businesses engaged in the production of wine; options for getting wine to the point of sale; considerations in wine marketing

D 3: Wines of the World
Principal wine regions in

France	Germany	Austria	Hungary
Greece	Italy	Spain	Portugal
USA	Canada	Chile	Argentina
South Africa	Australia	New Zealand	China

growing environment; grape growing options; winemaking options; postfermentation options; wine law and regulation; wine business

D 4: Sparkling Wines
Principal sparkling wines (Australia, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Spain, UK, USA); growing environment; grape growing options; winemaking options; postfermentation options; industry associations and labelling terms; wine businesss

D 5: Fortified Winesd
Principal fortified wines (Australia, France, Portugal, Spain); growing environment; grape growing options; winemaking options; postfermentation options; industry associations and labelling terms; wine business

D 6: Independent Research Assignment
Research a specified wine-related subject

D 7: Weinakademiker thesis
Thesis with a word count of 4,000 - 5,000 and a viva voce exam