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Alcohol abuse: Winemakers say education, not ad bans, is key

26/03/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Wine is more than a beverage, courses teach you: “It’s really about understanding the pleasure of wine – the smell, how it tastes, what’s behind it.”

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: alcohol abuse, Changins Wine School, courses, Geneva, Nyon, Opage, open days, Switzerland, WHO, wine

Let them drink wine! French fight binge drinking

05/03/2010 by Ellen Wallace

France, like other European countries, is trying to work out how to best deal with teenage binge drinking and the latest advice from the experts is to offer wine tasting courses. Britain’s Guardian turned this into headline news, while France’s Le Monde relegated it to a small mention at the end of an article about […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: binge drinking, canteens, classes, courses, France, French, Introduction to wine tasting, report, students, universities, Valérie Pécresse, wine education, wine-tasting

Winelovers: Changins course in English

08/12/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Correction – 2 dates in 2010, even better! This is excellent news: the Changins Wine School (Ecole du vin de Changins), the best place around for learning to understand and appreciate wine, is offering its wine-tasting course in English for the first time. The school has just mailed out its 2010 course schedule and “Introduction […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2010 schedule, Changins Wine School, classes, courses, Introduction to wine tasting, Nyon, Switzerland, wine school, wine-tasting

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