Wine Education and Personal Development in one effervescent Champagne Course
inviting Perth’s curious champagne enthusiasts and wine industry professionals to expand their skills and knowledge with an unexplored awareness and respect for what we have in our glass. Learn to trust your palate, go beyond what you already know.
The Canny Grapes Champagne Course is a result of witnessing wine enthusiasts, sommeliers, winemakers, wine distributors, restaurant managers thirsty for champagne knowledge they can apply with confidence. Through delivering wine training to staff, curating over 250 CG Wine Education Classes and my own extensive travels and wine experiences around the world, this new chapter and course is designed to help understand Champagne as a place and champagne as a wine.
Champagne is not only a successful international brand and wine of choice for celebrations., champagne is much more if you look close enough, leave behind what you think you know, and allow yourself to connect with what makes champagne truly unique.
Champagne is Emotion.
Champagne is world heritage.
Champagne only comes from champagne.
2027 CG CHAMPAGNE COURSE | 27th February - 24th April
Understanding Champagne as a place and champagne as a wine
- curated and hosted by Champagne specialist Anja Lewis
Perth’s first Champagne Appreciation course that delivers in depth knowledge and newly acquired skills for Perth’s champagne enthusiasts and hospitality professionals. The Champagne course is designed to dive deeper into the foundational elements of Champagne as a place and champagne as a wine, on more than one dimension.
Find out what you don’t know about champagne, transforming your newly acquired knowledge into expertise and awareness.
If you are curious about knowing and understanding champagne, this is your invitation to enrol for the upcoming course starting on Saturday 27th February 2027, followed by additional four 2.5 hours class dates,
Course Dates: Saturday 27th February; Saturday 6th March; Saturday 20th March, Saturday 10th April and Saturday 24th April
Course Fee: $1360 per person | Course Venue: TBC
Course Structure and what is included
5 x 2.5 hours in person classes
Each class includes a Signature Tasting element of three to four cuvées based on class theme i.e. sub-region vs village; grape varietals & cépage, malolactic vs non-malolactic, producer focussed signature styles, role of disgorgement dates, ageing & dosage; aroma development & glassware; bottle formats including Magnum
Terroir, place and grapes of Champagne; understanding the difference between each sub-region of Champagne; the art of blending and how champagne is able to translate true sense of place
The technical and emotional aspects of champagne
Winemaking and viticulture, historic milestones and key personalities then and now
Evolution of champagne’s styles and structure; champagne & food pairing (each session has a food element included)
