tasting


Apologies for not posting last week. I got caught up in the end of term admin, final lectures, and making sure my students were sorted before the break. As a result, I’m going to condense the last two weeks of the WSET Diploma into one post.The last two weeks were mostly about starting Unit 3, and specifically, France. We’ve covered Alsace, Loire, Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Southwest France. That included a lot of tasting – 22 wines in...

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Week three. This was our first ‘feedback tasting test,’ a practice tasting exam. It wasn’t the only thing on the schedule, of course. The other parts of the day, walking through the various decisions involved in making different styles of wine – will destemming help here? Oak or not? – as well as a tasting workshop, where we wrote and swapped tasting notes were great. Both were incredibly useful in their respective ways. But here I’m...

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