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SSA Certified Sake Sommelier (Tallinn)
May 19 - May 20
€615
CERTIFIED SAKE SOMMELIER
SSA’s flagship course is a fantastic way to expand your sake knowledge and sommelier skills. Accessible to both trained professionals and sake lovers alike, the course provides a broad approach of the sake world, diving deeper in the topics already seen in the Introductory course, exploring the world of umami and food pairing, and offering a wider selection of sake profiles to taste and study.
The course covers the following points across 2 days:
-An extended dive into sake history and culture
-In-depth sake production
-Sake tasting and the science of umami and food pairing
-Serving vessels and temperatures
-Serving etiquette and an exploration of sake’s versatility
-How to work with sake, and deciphering sake labels
This two-day course ends with a 45min exam that includes a written part and a blind taste. Those who pass the exam will receive later a SSA Sake Sommelier certificate and enamel pin to proudly display.
Duration: 2 days, 8.30-17.00 (pre-study necessary before the course)
Price: 615€
The course fee is non-refundable unless the course is cancelled or postponed.
The fee includes lunch on the two days as well as the tasting of 16 sake, but does NOT include dinner, accommodation or transport.