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Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
1. Define terms used in wine production.
2. Construct a chart classifying various wines.
3. Create a inforgraphic showing the characteristics of wine made common grape varieties.
4. Demonstrate how to serve wine, including opening and decanting the wine.
5. Differentiate between various wines through sight, smell, and taste.
6. Evaluate wines.
7. Describe how wine is made.
8. Describe how wine should be properly stored.
9. Identify the major wine producing regions of the world.
10. Identify the wines produced from the major wine regions of the world.
11. Identify the parts of wine labels from the different wine regions of the world.
12. Plan some classic wine and food pairings from each region.


Module Objectives, Learning Activity and Assessment:
Module Objective Learning Activity Assessment
1 Identify key policies in the
syllabus.

Read the syllabus for
understanding. Ask
questions if needed.
Quiz
1 Introduce yourself and meet
others in the class.
1. Why are you taking this
course?
2. What is your familiarity
with wine?
3. What do hope to learn
from this course now that
you have read the syllabus
and looked at the course
schedule?
Answer the questions
in the discussion
board.
Rubric for discussion board
introduction
1 Begin to build an online
community/discussion group.
Respond to two other
students posts in the
discussion board
Rubric for discussion board
1 Set up a blog page
1. How to set up a webpage
using Weebly. Create free
website at
www.weebly.com
Two tutorials for you:
Beginner's Guide: First
Steps
Or How to build a website
in 15 minutes with Weebly

Pages needed:
a. Wine Terminology and
Set up a webpages
and blog page and
post a link in the
discussion board.
Rubric for blog page


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Module Objective Learning Activity Assessment
classifications
b. Wine serving, flavors
and tasting
c. Wine Production and
storage
d. American Wines
e. French Wines
f. Italian Wines
g. German Wines
h. Spanish and
Portuguese Wines
i. South American and
Australian Wines
j. Reflection
k. Blog page
2. How to set up a blog page.
3. How to post to blog page
4. How to post a link in
blackboard
2 Define terms used in wine
production.
Link to Davis U
Quiz
2 Describe how wines are
classified.
Create a rubric to
describe how wines
are classified.

2 Identify terms and
classifications.
Link to Robert Parker Quiz
3 Demonstrate how to serve
wine, including opening and
decanting the wine.
1. Search the web to learn and
then produce.
2. Video can be a recording or a
series of images,
3. upload to YouTube and
embed or link to Google +
After reading create a
video on how to serve
wine from opening
and decanting the
wine to properly filling
a glass for customer
tasting and finally
pouring the wine for
the table. The video
can be a series of still
images, but it must
include opening the
bottle, decanting the
wine if needed, and
pouring a glass to the
proper level.
Post your video to
your website. You will
probably have to
Video rubric
1 opening wine
2 decanting wine
3 proper filling of glass
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Module Objective Learning Activity Assessment
upload to YouTube
and then embed the
video in your
webpage.
Post the link to your
page when you have
completed in the
assignments section
of Black Board.
3 Differentiate between various
wines through sight, smell, and
taste.

From your research
and tasting. Create a
compare and contrast
chart for red wines
and a separate chart
for white wines,
including color,
aromas, and tasting
notes.
Post to your website,
comment in your blog.
Compare and contrast the wines
tasted.
3 Evaluate the wines tasted.
Link to Ann Davis wheel and
DeLong form
Create and complete
tasting forms and
evaluate the wines
based on the forms.
Post to your website, comment
in your blog on the experience.
3 Participate in the class wine
flavors wiki.
While you are out
looking for wines, Im
sure you have come
across some
interesting
descriptions. For fun,
follow the link to the
wine wiki and post the
best and worst
descriptions that you
can find to the wiki
and comment on the
description. Please
post at least one
description and
comment on two
others by Friday,
11:59 pm.
Number of informative posts to
the wiki.

3 Describe the differences the
shape of a glass makes
Taste the same wine
from multiple shaped
glasses.
Post findings in

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Module Objective Learning Activity Assessment
Discussion board
3 Identify flavors on a quiz with
90% accuracy.
Grape Quiz
4 Describe how wine is made.
In unit 2 you learned some of
the terms in winemaking, now
we will learn the process of
making wine.
Create a table with
pictures of the steps
in wine making. Be
sure the images are
cited properly.
Table
4 Describe how wine should be
properly stored.

Research how wine
should be stored. Are
there different
storage solutions for
different producers?
Create a temperature
chart and explain
when and why wine
should be stored on
its side.
Temp chart
4 Identify where their grapes are
grown.
Using the label for information,
you should be able to tell what
types of grapes were used to
produce the wine.
Discussion board
participation by
uploading photo and
indicating where on
the label indicates the
place of grape origin.
Discussion Board Post Rubric
5 Identify the wines produced
from the major wine regions of
the US.
Create a matrix of the
wine regions and
grapes.
Taste and describe
your experience in the
blog section of your
website.
Matrix
5 Identify the parts of wine labels
from the US.
Create an Infographic
displaying the parts of
the labels and post
your website. Link to
the website in the
assignments section.
You may use this
infographic as the
base for the following
assignments.
Infographic
5 Plan some classic wine and
food pairings from each region.
Create a 4 course
menu with foods and
wine from a region
and post to the
Discussion board.
Menus with wine
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Module Objective Learning Activity Assessment
Comment on at least
two other posts.
After comments post
to your website.
5 Identify the appellations of the
US.
Create a travel
brochure/video for
your favorite state
including the
appellations.
Travel brochure or video
6 Identify the wines produced
from the major wine regions of
France.
Create a matrix of the
wine regions and
grapes.
Taste and describe
your experience in the
blog section of your
website.
Matrix
6 Compare and contrast the
parts of a US wine label and
French labels.
Create an Infographic
displaying the parts of
the labels and post
your website. Link to
the website in the
assignments section.
Infographic
6 Plan some classic wine and
food pairings from each region.
Create a 4 course
menu with foods and
wine from a region
and post to the
Discussion Board.
Comment on at least
two other posts.
Post to website
Menus with wines
6 Identify the appellations of
France.
Create a travel
brochure/video post
to website.
Travel brochure/video
7 Identify the wines produced
from the major wine regions of
Italy.
Create a matrix of the
wine regions and
grapes.
Taste and describe
your experience in the
blog section of your
website.
Matrix
7 Compare and contrast the
parts of a US wine label and
Italian labels.
Create an Infographic
displaying the parts of
the labels and post
your website. Link to
the website in the
assignments section.
Infographic
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Module Objective Learning Activity Assessment
7 Plan some classic wine and
food pairings from each region.
After creating the pairing
explain why you chose to pair
them.
Create a 4 course
menu with foods and
wine from a region
and post to the
Discussion Board.
Comment on at least
two other posts.
Post to website
Menus with wines
7 Identify the appellations of
Italy.
Create a travel
brochure/video
Post to website.
Travel brochure/video
8 Identify the wines produced
from the major wine regions of
Germany.
Create a matrix of the
wine regions and
grapes.
Taste and describe
your experience in the
blog section of your
website.
Matrix
8 Compare and contrast the
parts of a US wine label and
German labels.
Create an Infographic
displaying the parts of
the labels and share
on Discussion Board
Infographic
8 Plan some classic wine and
food pairings from each region.
Create a 4 course
menu with foods and
wine from a region
and post to the
Discussion Board.
Comment on at least
two other posts.
Post to website
Menus with wines
8 Identify the appellations of
Germany.
Create a travel
brochure/video
Post to your website
Travel brochure/video
9 Identify the wines produced
from the major wine regions of
Spain and Portugal.
Create a matrix of the
wine regions and
grapes.
Taste and describe
your experience in the
blog section of your
website.
Matrix
9 Compare and contrast the
parts of a US wine label and
Spanish and Portuguese labels.
Create an Infographic
displaying the parts of
the labels and post
your website. Link to
the website in the
assignments section.
Infographic
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Module Objective Learning Activity Assessment
9 Plan some classic wine and
food pairings from each region.
Create a 4 course
menu with foods and
wine from a region
and post to the
Discussion Board.
Comment on at least
two other posts.
Post to website
Menus with wines
9 Identify the appellations o of
Spain and Portugal.
Create a travel
brochure/video
Post to your website
Travel brochure/video
10 Identify the wines produced
from the major wine regions of
South America and Australia.
Create a matrix of the
wine regions and
grapes.
Taste and describe
your experience in the
blog section of your
website.
Matrix
10 Identify the parts of wine labels
from South America and
Australia.
Create an Infographic
displaying the parts of
the labels and post
your website. Link to
the website in the
assignments section.
Infographic
10 Plan some classic wine and
food pairings from each region.
Create a 4 course
menu with foods and
wine from a region
and post to the
Discussion Board.
Comment on at least
two other posts.
Post to website
Menus with wines
10 Identify the appellations of
South America and Australia.
Create a travel
brochure/video
Post to your website
Travel brochure/video
11 Rate the wines tasted and why. Create a mind map or
bubble map of the
wines tasted and
explain why you
scored the wines the
way you did.
Create a mind map or bubbl.us
map of
11 Evaluate the wine experiences. Post to your blog
about your
experiences learning
about wines. Post an
image that relates to
Wine experience blog
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Module Objective Learning Activity Assessment
your experiences.
11 Evaluate the course by
completing the student self-
assessment.
Complete the course
evaluation.
Self assessment