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

• Understand and interpret Champagne labels
• Know how to describe and assess Champagne wines
• Know how to store and serve Champagne in optimum conditions
• Be able to recommend a Champagne by ascertaining the customer’s expectations and needs and drawing up an appropriate range of suggestions
• Know how to pair food and Champagne

The benefits of this course

• You will put the skills you have learned into practice in the workshops
• You will develop the advisory skills needed to carry out professional activities such as recommending, serving, selling and buying Champagne and managing a cellar
• This course is created and managed by the Comité Champagne, which guarantees verified and up-to-date content, as well as the assurance of a global vision of Champagne

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.

Wines tasted:*

• Champagne Château de l’Auche Sélection Blanc de NoirsBrut , Cave Co-opérative de Germigny NV
• Champagne Extra Brut Prestige 1er Cru, Maison Duval Leroy, Vertus NV
• Champagne A04 Brut Ay Grand Cru, Christian Gosset NV
• Champagne Cramant Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Perlé Extra Brut, Lilbert Père & Fils NV
• Champagne Rive Droite Blanc Noirs Brut, Maison Gamet, Vallée de la Marne NV
• Champagne Rosé de Saignée Brut, Serveaux Fils, Passy, Vallée de la Marne NV
• Champagne Gold Label Millésime Brut, Lanson, Reims 2008
• Champagne Vintage Brut, Maison Louis Roederer, Reims 2015
• Champagne Millésime Brut, Rare, Reims 2008
• Champagne 1er Cru Tradition Brut Nature, Lelarge-Pugeot, Vrigny NV
• Champagne Intense (Mag 20) Extra Brut, A.R. Lenoble, Chouilly NV
• Champagne Rosé Solera Brut, Palmer, Reims NV