e-Learn Verde

Course "Knowing Vinho Verde - Level I"

This course is based on an e-learning platform, or internet based distance learning. This platform is accessible through a website page and numerous resources can be found in it. Readings, activities, wine tastings and evaluation activities will be proposed along 6 weeks. Several support and interaction tools can be found on the platform, as forums, chat, instant messaging with fellow students and support team.

The course and its contents where developed in a partnership between Comissão de Viticultura da Região dos Vinhos Verdes (the Region's interprofessional institution), Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (http://www.esb.ucp.pt) (School of Biotechnology of the Portuguese Catholic University) and Centro de Computação Gráfica da Universidade do Minho (http://www.uminho.pt) (Graphic Computation Center of Minho University).

Level I Students
Consumers, oenophiles or wine professionals who desire to increase their knowledge about Vinho Verde Demarcated Region and its wines.

Objectives
Quality Concepts in Wine
- To identify the different qualitative denominations used in Vinhos Verdes
- To distinguish normative classifications from current use classifications
- To understand wine style concepts
- To understand the qualitative perspective of the consumer
- To be able to do a Vinho Verde sensorial analysis (tasting), identifying its main sensorial characteristics

Factors that Influence Wine Quality
- To identify and explain the main primary production factors for Vinhos Verdes, its transformation and maturation/ageing
- To understand the Vinhos Verdes supply chain and its main characteristics
- To integrate all concepts, by being able to do a sensorial analysis, identifying and explaining the main factors influencing the revealed characteristics, as well as which quality concepts the wine is associated with

Certificate:
At the end of the course the students with positive evaluation will be provided with a certificate.

Inscriptions until: 15^th November 2006

Course dates: 20^th November 2006 until 7^th January 2007

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