WIN3305 Winemaking Practice 2 (FOSCI)

Units 1.0 (019905) Band 6

Pre-requisite: WIN2202

Synopsis

This course mainly comprises a compulsory, intensive 5 day residential school, based at the Queensland College of Wine Tourism, and provides a practical introduction to winemaking through activities in the Queensland College of Wine Tourism winery and laboratories, and field trips to commercial wineries. The winemaking activities to be undertaken include wine barrel maturation, clarification, stabilisation, fining, finishing and bottling. Additionally, practical techniques in distillation, fortified wine production and sparkling wine production will be considered, as well as further practice in techniques of analysis of wine components in the context of the commercial phase of wine production. In addition students will be guided through appropriate preparatory activities prior to the residential school and follow-up activities will include completion of a report on activities and outcomes. The practical experience in this course is set in context of relevant winemaking activities and relates to elements of the theoretical courses WIN1101 (Grape and Wine Production), WIN2102 (Wine composition, stability and analysis), WIN2204 (Wine Biochemistry), WIN2206 (Wine Microbiology), and WIN3303 (Wine Production). It builds upon skills developed in WIN2201 (Wine Analysis Practice) and WIN2202 (Winemaking Practice 1).