Cornell has classes ranging from a vast array of disciplines. A wine class is among them!

USA Today reports.

Voices: At Cornell, learning about wine is serious business

Day drinking can be a lot of fun, especially when you’re hanging out with a bunch of your classmates on campus. Wouldn’t it be even better if you could, at the same time, get academic credit for it?

Well, that seems great, too, except when suddenly you’re asked, “What does mis en bouteille mean?” or even worse, “What is the percentage of grape varietals that needs to be in this label?”

If that happens, you’re probably in what has been described as one of Cornell’s most popular and most failed (incorrectly so, I might add) classes: Introduction to Wines.

Introduction to Wines is not only a popular class, it’s massive.

Anywhere from 6-700 students pack into the Auditorium at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration to learn about wines from around the globe. It is also a very hard class. The class meets once a week for two hours, during which, students will learn six or seven wines per class. For each they study (and yes, will be tested on) the characteristics of the region (including climate and soil properties), the wine’s vineyard, producer, grape qualities and every aspect of the label, which vary from country to country.