Champagne Specialist: Understanding and Recommending Champagne’s Wines

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 include understanding and interpreting Champagne labels, describing and assessing Champagne wines, storing and serving Champagne in optimum conditions, recommending Champagne by ascertaining the customer’s expectations and needs, and pairing food and Champagne. The course includes 14 hours of classes over three days with practical and theory assessments.