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    Cépages Wine School

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    Fundamentals course: Climate, Terroir & the Olfactory.

Our flagship course; Monday nights at Doyon-Despres, Bank st. 6:30-9:30pm, $1200.

This immersive 6-week program is designed to take the average wine lover to the next level. Hosted once a week, for 6 weeks, you'll spend 18 hours of classroom time with our team and taste over 50 outstanding wines. We devote the majority of our time and resources to the art of tasting, improving and honing our sensory skills (you know, the fun stuff). Our teaching style is conversational, and inclusive. Throughout the course, you'll gain a greater understanding of the science of tasting, the principal growing regions of the world, how climate affects these regions, the influence of terroir and how to assess quality in wine (unbiasedly). Beyond this, you’ll become proficient in blind tasting, and developing your ability to smell and taste.

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Our Encepagement? Passion. Experience. Honesty.

These are the core values that make up our blend.

Cépages Wine School seeks to offer the best possible wine courses (zero pretension, zero pins, zero certificates) while raising the bar of wine education in our home region of Ottawa and the Outaouais.

We empower you with the skills and confidence to enhance your tasting experience and explore the finest expressions of artistry that the wine world has to offer. Our goal is to uplift the community, support as many enthusiasts as possible, and to cultivate a vibrant gastronomic scene in the Capital region because we believe that the better we taste, the more we enjoy as a collective!