Wine Appreciation

Brainscape’s wine appreciation flashcards are your fun and frustration-free guide to understanding the world of wine. If you’ve ever stared blankly at a wine list or supermarket shelf wishing you knew what to choose, this course gives you the knowledge and confidence to make better decisions.

These smart flashcards simplify complex wine concepts so that you can actually enjoy learning them. They take you on a journey through everything from grape varietals and growing regions to wine styles, food pairing, and tasting techniques. You’ll build a strong foundation and sharpen your palate while improving your motivation and study habits along the way.

With freedom to shift study between desktop and mobile, Brainscape’s adaptive repetition makes it easy to retain what you learn and appreciate wine on a whole new level.

What Will I Learn From This Wine Appreciation Course?

A baseline wine knowledge elevates your meal experiences at home and in restaurants; it demystifies the wine menu and shopping experiences; it puts you in a position to impress friends, colleagues, and clients; and it can inject very real magic—or even romance—into your travel experiences!

To these noble ends, these flashcards will teach you how to:

• Pair the right wines with your food
• Store and serve wine
• Read (and understand) wine labels
• Navigate the wine menu and talk to sommeliers
• Find the wine you want in the store
• And so much more

From wine zero to wine hero in 700+ engaging flashcards

Within these 16 decks of Wine Education Flashcards, you’ll travel the length of the wine alphabet—from Amarone to Zinfandel—and the breadth of the world's best-known winelands, whose names have become synonymous with the libations they produce. Think: Bordeaux and Burgundy.

We’ve also endeavored to approach the subject from the perspective of someone who is interested in, but knows very little about wine, so it doesn’t matter from what level you’re starting your wine education. We’ve got you!

Brainscape’s hyper-efficient learning algorithm

This rich content combined with Brainscape’s synchronized web/mobile experience—which uses spaced repetition to optimize your study time, while allowing you to track your progress—makes for the most enjoyable and efficient way to learn about wine.

Features:

• A customized flashcard repetition algorithm that cuts your memorization time dramatically.
• Ongoing feedback, statistics, and visualization tools to help you track your progress.
• In sync studying across Brainscape’s website and app so you can study anytime, anywhere!

Together, our Wine Appreciation course, Wine Appreciation Flashcards, and sophisticated study system will guide you through a baseline wine knowledge to the higher echelons of wine nerdom, at which point the wine list becomes your playground!

Free resources to support your wine-learning journey

To explore our rich library of additional wine resources, check out Brainscape Wine on YouTube. Here, you'll discover tons of videos for general wine enthusiasts, as well as those of you who are considering a more formal wine education with the Court of Master Sommeliers (CMS) or Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET).

There’s also our free Wine Academy bursting with interesting articles on wine, such as:

• 10 Things everyone should know about wine
• 5 Questions to ask your sommelier so you can sound smart
• How to make wine at home (you’re welcome)
• And so much more!

Finally, don’t miss out on Brainscape Wine on Podcast, Instagram, and TikTok, where we share tons of content about wine.