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Certificate of Winery Assistant Sales

Duration Time

22 weeks (without co-op)
40 weeks (360 hrs of instruction + 250 hour co-op)

Available Location

Kelowna Online

Next Start Dates

January 15th,2024
March 25th ,2024
May 27th, 2024
November 4th, 2024

Entrance Requirements

Academic IELTS 5.5 score
High school diploma

The Okanagan Valley is the perfect place to explore your love of wine. From the cozy family-run vineyards to world-class operations, the valley’s gems consistent rank among the world’s best at international competitions and draw visitors to their sun-ripened reds and fresh, crisp whites.

IGK is offering a “Certificate of Winery Assistant and Sales” to meet the demands of this growing local industry. Obtain valuable knowledge and practical skills to work alongside expert vintners. Gain real world experience through field trips to world-class wineries. Study the scientific principles of production, influences on product quality, industry terminology, equipment operation and maintenance, harvest and crush, sanitation and safety, sensory evaluation, and marketing and sales. Students completing the program have the opportunity for a co-op with one of our many partners, and potential careers include winery assistant, customer service representative, winery sales and assistant.

On graduation, learners will be able to:

– Demonstrate Canadian customer service skills

– Adhere to food safety, health and sanitation standards

– Describe elements of food and wine pairing

– Recognize origin, structural profile, production method and components of various fermented beverages

– Use various techniques to help customers purchase wine

Career Opportunities

– Customer Service Representative

– Winery Sales Assistants

– Tour and Travel Guides

Courses (60 hours per course)

This course provides a general introduction to many facets of business, covering topics such as economic systems, legal environments, ethics and corporate social responsibility, management, human resources, accounting, information systems and marketing.

 

This course provides an introduction tocustomer service. It explores the definition of customer service, behaviors that engage customers, active listening skills, insights into emerging trends in customer service, customer turnoffs, customer feedback, customer recoveryand exceeding customer expectations.

 

This course is intended to prepare students for entry-level positions in the Food and Beverage industry. Topics include roles and responsibilities, including the purpose of safety in the workplace, Serving it Right, standardized recipes, product purchasing, product receiving, storing and issuing, quality food-production standards, quality-beverage standards and communicating with guests.

 

This course will enable students to learn about wine, spirits and other fermented beverages making process starting with the raw materials ending with ready for consumption product. Additionally, students will learn key structural and tasting characteristics of various beverages, as well as requirements for proper serving.

 

This course provides the necessary skills needed to navigate terminology and techniques required to maximize sensory experience when pairing food with wine. The course further explores topics, such as motivation of food and wine pairing, key terms and elements, hierarchy of tastes, foundation tastes, wine and food textures element and interaction between those, implications of spice, flavor type, intensity and flavor persistency for wine and food matching, systematic process for predicting match levels using sequential and mixed tasting methods.

 
 

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