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Open Wine University is the viticulture and wine university open to all.
Created in 2015 by the University of Burgundy, the MOOC OWU1 was a pioneer in the field of viticulture and wine. Today, this MOOC returns with the version OWU2, including new content and activities, all fully available in four languages: French, English, Spanish and Chinese.
During this five-week course, participants will discover the many facets of wine.
After a few reminders on basic concepts, we will be asking whether wine is threatened by climate change, diseases or pests, and then we will explore the make-up of soils and how wine is made. Next, we will look at how ‘terroir’ develops and is promoted. Before the wine is ready to be served, we'll need to look at bottling and aging. We will be looking at wine economy and history. Finally, we will discover that wine communication is a world in its own right.
Prerequisite
This MOOC is open to all, with no prerequisites.
It is not necessary to have completed OWU1, to take OWU2.
Syllabus
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Week 1: Introduction
- Between soil and climate
- Wine micro-organisms
- First steps in wine-tasting
+ winemaking of white and red wines
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Week 2: Is wine in danger?
- Climate and viticulture
- Major grapevine diseases and pests
- The global wine economy after the phyllioxera crisis
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Week 3: Crafting wine
- Geology and soils of Burgundian terroirs
- Wine and microbial diversity
- Wine markets
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Week 4: Harnessing your terroir
- Creating terroir in the context of viticulture
- Special winemaking techniques, example of winemaking of "vins jaunes/yellow wines" from Jura
- Wine flaws
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Week 5: Final steps in getting the wine ready to be enjoyed
- Wine bottling
- Wine ageing
- Wine: an approach for communication
Instructors
Marielle ADRIAN
Program director
Professor of Vine Science, IUVV - uB
Sandrine ROUSSEAUX
Pedagogic coordination
Assistant Professor of Viticulture and Microbiology, IUVV - uB
Hervé ALEXANDRE
Professor of Microbiology and Enology, IUVV - uB
Jordi BALLESTER
Assistant Professor of Sensory Analysis and Tasting, IUVV - uB
Benjamin BOIS
Assistant Professor of Viticulture and Climatology, IUVV - uB
Jean-Jacques BOUTAUD
Professor of Communication and Information Science, UFR Langues et Comm' - uB
Claude CHAPUIS
Associate Professor, Wine and Culture, School of Wine & Spirits Business - BSB
Christian COELHO
Assistant Professor of Chemical Physics and Enology, IUVV - uB
Pierre-Yves COLLIN
Assistant Professor of Geology and Sedimentology, UFR SVTE - uB
Jean-Pierre GARCIA
Professor specialized in viticultural terroirs, UFR SVTE - uB
Régis GOUGEON
Professor of Chemistry and Enology, IUVV - uB
Michèle GUILLOUX-BENATIER
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Enology, IUVV - uB
Olivier JACQUET
Research Engineer - PhD in History, IUVV - uB
Thomas KARBOWIAK
Assistant Professor of Chemical Physics, AgroSup - uB
Olivier MATHIEU
Assistant Professor of Environmental Geochemistry, UFR SVTE - uB
Maria NIKOLANTONAKI
Assistant Professor of Wine Chemistry, IUVV - uB
Amélie QUIQUEREZ
Assistant Professor of Geomorphology, UFR SVTE - uB
Florent SCHEPENS
Professor of Sociology, UFR SLHS - UFC
Mathieu THEVENOT
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, UFR SVTE - uB
Raphaëlle TOURDOT-MARECHAL
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Enology, IUVV - uB
Sophie TROUVELOT
Assistant Professor of Vine Science, IUVV - uB
Content Designer
The University of Burgundy (French: Université de Bourgogne) is a university in Dijon, France.
The University of Burgundy (uB) is situated on a large campus called Campus Montmuzard, 15 minutes by bus from the City Centre. The Humanities and Sciences are well represented on the main campus along with Law, Medicine and Literature in separate buildings. The IUT (Institute of technology) is also on the campus, providing specialist higher level diplomas in Business, Biology, Communications and Computer Science.
uB counts 10 faculties, 4 engineering schools, 3 institutes of technology offering undergraduate courses, and 2 professional institutes providing post-graduate programmes.
With numerous student societies and good support services for international and disabled students, the campus is a welcoming place with numerous CROUS restaurants and canteens for students to avail of subsidised food and snacks.
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It operates several platforms of diffusion, of which the best known, FUN MOOC, is the first French-speaking academic platform worldwide. Thanks to many partner institutions, this platform offers a vast catalog of courses enriched daily with various themes and current events.