From Grape to Glass

Looking to broaden your knowledge of the wine industry? A new version of the University of Adelaide’s World of Wine: From Grape to Glass course was launched this month on its AdelaideX platform and already has 10,000 enrollments following the success of last year’s inaugural course, which attracted almost 40,000 students from 160 countries via the edX platform. The free six-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is aimed at educating beginners through to passionate wine enthusiasts and covers the principles and practices that underpin grape and wine production and their impacts on wine style and sensory properties with an Australian focus. Wine101x-2Associate Professor of Oenology at the University of Adelaide Kerry Wilkinson said a large number of industry workers in non-winemaking roles such as food technologists, wine marketers and sommeliers had enrolled in the course from a wide range of countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and…