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  • Wine
  •     — How Wine and Food work together
  •     — Italian Wines
  •     — Wines around the world
  •     — The Glasses
  •     — Whine making
  •     — What is Wine
  • Credenza
  •     — Newspapers and magazines
  •     — Flower Arrangement Design
  •     — Welcome basket
  •     — Credenza, What it is and what it is used for
  • Roles and Responsibilities of VIP Flight Attendant
  •     — Pre Flight Duties
  •     — Pets on Board
  •     — Kids on Board
  •     — Professional language
  •     — Professional protocol
  •     — Inflight duties
  •     — VIP FA Role
  •     — Professional Categories of Flight Attendants (FA)
  •     — Oshibori
  •     — Post Flight duties
  • THE WORLD of CAFFEE & TEA
  •     — Afternoon Tea
  •     — Coffee
  • SILVER SERVICE & TABLE SETTING
  •     — Cutlery Classification
  •     — Table Setting
  •     — Silver Service
  • CATERING & MENU
  •     — Menu
  •     — Catering
  • PRIVATE AVIATION
  •     — Fleet - Types of private Jets
  •     — Commercial aviation and Corporate aviation
  •     — Introduction in Private Aviation
  • GOURMET FOOD
  •     — Cheese
  •     — Fois Gras
  •     — Caviar
  •     — Salmon
  • BEVERAGE
  •     — Italian Wines
  •     — Wines Around the World
  •     — Red Wine
  •     — White Wine
  •     — Champagne
  •     — Wine
  •     — Cocktails
  •     — Champagne-based Cocktails or Sparkling Cocktails
  •     — Digestive Liqueurs
  • Basic Vocabulary and Expressions
BEVERAGE, Wine
Succession of wines.
SEE ALL LESSONS
  • Sparkling wines
  • Charmat method ( short, long, reserve),
  • Classic method (s.a., millesimal, reserve)
  • White wines: young, aromatic, wood-aged, matured
  • Rosé wines: young, aromatic, wood-aged, matured
  • Red wines: young, aromatic, wood-aged, matured
  • Sweet wines: young, aromatic, wood-aged, matured
  • Wines from raisined grapes 
  • Liqueurs wines,
  • Liqueurs,
  • Spirits.

Special Wines

Special wines are divided into three categories:

  • Sparkling wines:
    • Italy: sparkling wines (Franciacorta and saten D.O.C.G., Trento D.O.C., Alta langa D.O.C.G.).
    • Champagne: only in the Champagne area.
    • Cremant: throughout the rest of France.
    • Cava: Spain.
    • Sekt: Germany and Austria.
  • Fortified wines, are divided by the presence of: sugar (dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet, sweet) and colour (white, rosè and according to the type of grape).
    • Porto, from Portugal.
    • Marsala from Sicily, Trapani.
    • Madeira, Madeira islands.
    • Sherry (Jerez/Xeres) from Andalusia, Spain
  • Aromatised wines:
    • Aromatised wines are composed of 75% wine and 25% alcohol, flavorings and sugar.
    • Aromatised wines by law must have a minimum of 14.5% vol.and a maximum of 22% vol.
    • The best known categories are: Vermouth, Barolo Chinato, Retsina.