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See more Products from PrezzyboxLearn how to taste wine like the experts, at home and in your own time. Learn the 11 essential steps to becoming a connoisseur with this easy to follow, step-by-step guide with fun exercises, quizzes and invaluable interactive tools. You'll quickly learn to differentiate and describe wine like an expert, discuss and order wine with confidence, save money when purchasing wine, reject faulty wines that are commonly accepted by others and match the perfect wine to your meal. Whether novice or keen enthusiast, you'll swiftly develop your natural skills by following this highly effective course. The programme makes learning rewarding and fun, and something you'll want to come back to time and time again! Course Contents: Pre-Training Preparation Your Taste Trainer Wine Types Why Wines Differ Avoiding The Pitfalls Interactive Tools: Tasting Note Tool Tasting Note Library Wine Scoring Tool Food and Wine Matching Tool Pack Contents: Interactive CD-Rom Instructions Activation Certificate Pocket Sommelier Portable guide Unlike a class, you can fit the Taste Trainer to your schedule! No worries about missing sessions. Learn at your own pace and do the course when it suits you. Whether you do an hour in the evening or five minutes on a Saturday morning, you can pick up where you left off and complete as much as you wish. You'll never lose your place or get left behind. You'll know how well you're doing with quizzes and a progress monitor. Your Cellar Master will help you to identify gaps in your knowledge by setting you a series of short quizzes though the course and awarding you with bottles to stock your virtual cellar with. A full cellar equates to a thorough understanding! Simple navigation means you'll never have to wade through reams of text for what you're looking for. Your knowledge and palate develops by doing as much as reading. Powerful interactive tools will assist you though your learning process and a range of fun exercises will make skill development a joy. You will always be engaged, the course is light hearted, informative and humorous. How often do you read something and feel that those writing are trying to impress their peers by using 'in jargon' or have only ever written video manuals! Those taking the course have commented on the "refreshingly light though powerfully informative nature of the writing" and that they " very much enjoyed the friendly and accessible text and anecdotal humour", "not a bit pompous as much wine speak and writing seems to be". A word you've not encountered? Your 'Jargon Buster' will explain. How off-putting do you find: a) Unfamiliar technical terms in your text?b) Lengthy explanation of a technical term you are familiar with?Your jargon busting feature enables you to hover over an unfamiliar term and view a concise description, keeping you up to speed with terms you don't know and enabling you to read on without wading through pointless explanation of those you do. The pleasant, highly navigable 3D environment means it's easy to use. You're never more than three clicks from any part of the course. Either wander the cellar, view your progress and make use of your Tasting Toolkit, or click straight to any part of the course you wish to be transported to. Stick-ability. The course will encourage you back time and time again. We don't promise to get you out of bed and turn the computer on, though we have packed the course with as many elements as we could that will help keep you coming back until you've gone the distance. System Requirements PC system requirements:A PC with a Pentium 2 400mhz processor, 64 mb ram (128mb for windows XP and 2000), 20mb of free disk space, an open gl compatible graphics card for the 3d environment (SVGA is sufficient if using just 2d environment), monitor capable of a minimum display resolution of 800x600x256. Microsoft Win 98 onwards. MAC version (soon to be added) system requirements: A MAC computer with a G4 or above. 256mb ram, 20mb of free disk space, an open gl compatible graphics card for the 3d environment (SVGA is sufficient if using just 2d environment), monitor capable of a minimum display resolution of 800x600x256. MAC OSX.