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Born from a passion for wine and endless curiosity, Cru Consultancy makes wine education approachable, fun and just challenging enough.
Cru Consultancy was founded by Sharon McLean and Treve Ring, longtime friends, colleagues and wine cohorts united by a shared passion for wine and education. In 2024, they joined forces with Canadian colleague Andrea Eby, founder of Vinsanity, to expand into Ontario with VinCru.
Certified sommeliers, educators, journalists and experienced travellers, the Cru team brings expertise, perspective and energy to seminars and events that explore the world of wine with depth and clarity.
With credentials including the WSET Diploma and Wine Scholar Guild titles, our instructors combine professional knowledge with ongoing immersion in the wine world through travel, study and firsthand experience. Our mission is simple - to make wine education engaging, approachable and rewarding for all.
- Course objectives :
- Describing and assessing Champagne wines.
- Knowing how to store and serve Champagne wines in optimal conditions.
- Being able to recommend a Champagne wine by ascertaining a customer’s expectations and requirements and then making a range of proposals suited to their request.
- Pairing food and Champagne wines
- Understanding and interpreting Champagne wine labels.
- Course advantages :
- Focus is on practice with workshops allowing students to apply the knowledge acquired.
- Develop consulting skills required for the exercise of professional activities such as recommending, serving, selling, and purchasing Champagne wines and managing a cellar.
- This program is created and certified by the Comité Champagne: the content is up to date and you are guaranteed to have a global vision of Champagne.
- Course limited to small groups to encourage interactivity and active participation.