5 Week Regional Courses £60

These short 5 week courses are designed for anyone who would like to get to know a particular country or region in more depth. The courses run throughout the year and cover many well-established countries & regions as well as 'rising-stars'. 

WHAT IF I HAVE TO MISS ANY EVENINGS?

No problem - You receive a credit you can use for any of our fantastic NWS Courses and Tastings - Simples!

Please Note: There is an additional charge (in addition to the Course Fee of £60.00) of £10 per Evening payable on the night. Great value - total cost still only £22.00 per Evening!  

One of our 5-Week Wine Courses also makes a great Gift idea for any occasion!

5-Week Grand Tour of French Wine Regions :: Thu 12th Sep 2013

THURS 12 SEP to 10 OCT 2013 - If you missed, or were inspired by the BBC 6-part series - Oz & James's Big Wine Adventure - this is a chance to

Places remaining: 14

Price: £60.00

• Natural wines transported by sail power
  More than 3,000 bottles of wine have been sailed into London by a new company keen to demonstrate the environmental benefits of old-fashioned wind power.
• Bordeaux 2012: Montrose, Clinet, Domaine de Chevalier release
  New price releases are being met by an increasingly small pool of buyers in the Bordeaux 2012 campaign.
• Michelangelo Pistoletto's Ornellaia works net £240k at London auction
  A collection of commemorative bottles of Ornellaia 2010 designed by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto sold for £238,000 last night at an auction in London.
• Chinese investors snapping-up 'one chateau per month', say estate agents
  From the beginning of 2011, a leading Bordeaux real estate agent says, an average of one Bordeaux chateau per month has been sold to a Chinese investor.
• Cambridge and Copenhagan qualify for Left Bank Bordeaux Cup final
  Cambridge University and Copenhagan Business School have progressed to the final of this year's Left Bank Bordeaux Cup having won their places at the European semi-finals over the weekend.
• Bordeaux 2012: Pichon Lalande, Malartic Lagraviere, Beychevelle release
  The last two days have seen a few attempts to get what has been described as the ‘forgotten Bordeaux 2012 campaign’ finally moving, but customers are 'turning their backs on the vintage', merchants say.
• Christie's launches vineyard sales service
  Christie’s is launching a service to help prospective buyers of vineyard estates.
• South Africa harvest at record high
  Wine production in South Africa is expected to reach an all-time high this year after the 2013 grape harvest outstripped expectations to reach nearly 1.5m tons.
• Rupert Murdoch buys Bel Air wine estate
  Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has purchased Moraga Estate vineyard in Bel Air, Los Angeles, for a reported US$29.5m.
• Wine Australia chief leaves as merger is prepared
  Wine Australia chief executive Andrew Cheesman is stepping down as the organisation prepares to merge with the country’s Grape & Wine Research & Development Corporation (GWRDC).