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This course is directed to all interested in understanding the whole of wine production, from historical background to modern winemaking techniques. A

novel tasting approach will enable to understand in a simple and rapid way to typify wine styles and your own wine preferences. Therefore, the classes have practical tastings to explain the topics addressed in the theoretical lessons.

 

Objetivos

The main goal is to understand the core aspects of wine production and
appreciation bridging its historical roots and the recent developments in

flavour neuronal processing.

To this purpose, several topics will be addressed aimed at:

  • Describing the different winemaking processes and respective outputs
  • Tasting wine using an emotion based approach to recognize the main wine styles and consumer preferences
  • Describing the essence of historic and heritage sustainability of wine production and enotourism activities
  • Experiencing the different degrees of food and wine pairing
  • Conteúdos

    Module 1 – Wine production: grape, vessel, ingenuity

    Grape: origin, varieties, uses and production

    Winery: basic operations, equipment, flow diagrams

    Ingenuity: basic principles of vinification, storage and bottling. 

    Module 2 – Wine appreciation: beyond sensory analysis 

    Tasting and the senses: neuronal mechanisms of sensory perception

    Perception variability and cross modal interactions

    Olfaction as an emotional sense

    Conventional tasting: analytical and synthetic descriptors   

    Module 3 – Quality: concepts and assessment

    Sensory analysis and wine tasting

    Commodity wines and fine wines

    The different degrees of expertise: perceptual, conceptual and aesthetic

    The cognitive biases in wine appreciation

    Preference and aesthetical evaluation

    Halo effect in wine appreciation: trends and fashions

    Module 4 - Wine origin: in time and space

    The historic and heritage sustainability of grape and wine production

    The concept of terroir

    Denominations of origin: historical background, geographical denominations and present regions

    Module 5 – Wine manipulation: meeting consumer demands

    Aromatization and smoothening

    Oak aging and terroir dissipation

    The case of sweet wines, sparkling wines and vermouths

    Module 6 – Wine off-flavours: faults or forms?

    Concept and definitions: distinguishing between detection and spoilage

    Most frequent off-flavours

    How to deal with off-flavours

    Module 7 – Wine and food: antagonisms and synergies 

    General principles of food and wine pairing

    Wine service: glasses, temperatures and decanting


Destinatários

Students, PhD students, general public

Requisitos

None

Candidaturas

From 10 september to 23 october 2024


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Coordenação e Formadores

- Manuel Malfeito Ferreira (coordenator)

mmalfeito@isa.ulisboa.pt 

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