SAMPLE WINE COURSES
Most of our wine training sessions are bespoke, to fit the precise needs of each venue we work with and include their exact wines and food menus. The sample courses below contain the key areas we focus on.
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Depending on your requirements, we could deliver one of the exact wine training sessions below for you. Alternatively, we often combine elements of the varied themes below, creating unique, bespoke sessions.
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​The training courses below can also form the basis of the bespoke wine programmes we deliver for hospitality groups, enabling our clients to deliver their own branded wine qualifications for their staff.
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We pride ourselves on making wine training fun and engaging for staff of all experience levels! : )
WINE MADE EASY
Beginners wine course, perfect for staff who have limited experience working with wine
Maximum participants: 8 staff
Training duration: 2 hours
As the name suggests, this training package makes wine easy for staff to understand, even if they are new to wine or hospitality.
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A common issue with hospitality staff's wine knowledge is not that no training is provided, but that training isn't fit for purpose.
Far too often, staff are completely overwhelmed in wine training sessions, due to too much information being thrown at them in a short period of time, using wine-related words and phrases that mean nothing to them. As a result, they learn very little.
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Hospovin are breaking the mould on this kind of traditional wine training and resolving the staff wine knowledge gap for our hospitality clients. We use our own unique, easy to understand training methods, in relaxed, fun sessions, which genuinely engage staff of all experience levels, improving both their wine knowledge and wine confidence.
Training includes…
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​Improving overall staff confidence with wine, using our own down to earth and easy to follow training methods.
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Tasting comparison of the best recognised and most regularly ordered grapes and styles of wines on your wine list.
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Introduction to food and wine matching, enabling your team to familiarise themselves with recognised food and wine pairings.
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Simplifying key terms and expressions relating to wine, using down to earth training methods to take away the wine jargon.
SERVING WINE
with confidence
Beginners wine course, ideal for staff who are new to wine service or the hospitality industry
Maximum participants: 8 staff
Training duration: 2.5 hours
Ideal for pre-opening training at new hospitality venues, or when onboarding a group of new F&B staff into your business.
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Wine service training is often very difficult to extend across hospitality teams, due to high staff turnover and senior restaurant leaders having so much on their plate that they have little time to dedicate to training. Hospovin can take this stress off your hands, delivering impactful staff service training, at your venue, which uses unique resources to help staff recall the training afterwards.
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This course will enable you to establish a consistent service standard amongst your team, impressing guests with improved service.
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Training includes…
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Improving overall staff confidence with wine, using our own down to earth and easy to follow training methods.
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Step by step, easy to understand guide to correctly opening cork sealed still wines and sparkling wines.
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Breaking down the '7 steps of correct wine service' for restaurants.
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Scenario-based training on how to manage common wine related customer queries in restaurants.
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Correct storage and serving temperatures for various different styles of wines.
SELLING WINE
with confidence
Intermediate wine course, ideal for businesses wanting their staff to take a next step in wine
Maximum participants: 8 staff
Training duration: 2 hours
Giving staff the confidence and skills to become comfortable discussing wine with guests is essential for a great guest experience.
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Selling wine and recommending wine to guests is something that the vast majority of hospitality staff desperately struggle with.
Often the issue with wine training is that, despite learning general facts about wine, staff struggle to gain genuine wine confidence from the training. As a result, this delivers no improvements in either guest experience or average spend for their business.
'Selling wine with confidence' is a Hospovin training session built to address these staff struggles with wine confidence, and sales.​
Our sessions entirely change the mindset about wine, giving teams a knowledge of what wine consumers actually want to know about a wine, and how the team can use this to recommend wines and deliver sales impact for their business.
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This sales-focused training session is delivering clear increases in average wine spend for the venues we are working with.
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Training includes…
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Changing the mindset around recommending wine, training your team on the key selling points that actually sell wine.
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Targeted wine tasting comparison, making staff familiar with wines on your list that deliver an increased spend for your business.
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Food and wine pairing training, giving staff an understanding of food pairings for their wines, and how to explain these to guests.
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Group wine presentation activities, focused on identifying key selling points and learning how to explain these to guests.
ELEVATE EVENTS
Beginners/Intermediate wine course, specifically for sales teams - Weddings, Groups, Meetings and Events
Maximum participants: 8 staff
Training duration: 2 hours
Throughout the hospitality industry, sales teams are usually the last to receive wine training. Unfortunately, this leaves these sales teams unable to boost event experience for guests due to lack of knowledge of their wines, and how they compliment their menus.
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Our 'Elevate Events' wine training session boosts wine confidence amongst sales teams, leading to increased average wine spend from events, as well as improved guest experience for clients, due to selecting wines that truly match their food menu choices. Your house wines will no longer be the go-to choice for your sales team, after this session.
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Training includes…
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Tasting comparison of various contrasting styles of wines on your wine list, which compliment your food menus in different ways.
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Introduction to food and wine matching, enabling sales teams to understand how to select ideal wines for their event clients.
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Training on how to recommend premium wines for events. Identifying selling points, and learning how to word these to clients.
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Hospovin food pairing 'cheat sheets' for the sales team to keep and support their meetings with event clients.