Wine Studies: The hardest class in the school. I survived! It was difficult. Three weeks long (though now that it is over, I wish it was longer). We divided the class into three parts--New World (USA, Canada, eh?, Argentina, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand), France and Italy, and Spain and Portugal. It is a lot of information very quickly and a lot of memorization is required. I enjoyed the class though. It was nice to have a challenging class again where studying consumed my life.
Every day, we had wine tastings which included about 10 wines. We had to spit the wine though (but I didn't always do that since some of the wines were "out of this world" delicious).
It is one of the most failed classes in the school (three people in our class failed this block and lots of other came very close to not passing). I just did my best to not let it stress me out. I know a lot of people who just died during it because they were not used to all of the studying necessary to pass the class. I did fairly well in the class, though not as well as I hoped. There were two quizzes, a test, and a paper. On the second quiz ( France and Italy) I did not do so well. I just could not learn the information in time because it was so broken up from a weekend, so that brought my grade down unfortunately. I am still very happy with my grade considering the reputation of the class.
I really enjoyed learning about wine. It has always been a subject that overwhelmed me and I did not like to try new wines, but now that I have a wealth of knowledge, I can use it in my future culinary applications. I cannot wait till I am 21 and I can go to a wine store and actually KNOW what to look for!
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