Florida Wine Academy is a leading wine school in Florida offering WSET courses, tastings, and professional wine education.
Florida Wine Academy is a leading wine school in Miami, offering Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) and Wine Scholar Guild (WSG) courses, along with specialized certifications and professional wine education for both enthusiasts and trade. In 2026, we are launching the Champagne Specialist certification, a focused program covering terroir, production and styles with guided tastings to build a clear understanding of the region.
The school also hosts Miami Champagne Week, an annual series of events that brings together producers, educators, and wine lovers for tastings and masterclasses across the city. In addition, Florida Wine Academy organizes educational trips, including a dedicated Champagne study trip planned for 2026.
- 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.