If you're like me, when a rep comes by with a bag of wine or you're at a trade show, you're just trying to capture the basic idea of the wine so you know to revisit it later.
I typically use BLIC and draw a hash on the book or sell sheet, then checkmark each box as I taste.
What hacks or shorthand do you use to get the basic idea of a wine vs when you sit down to do a full SAT style evaluation?
Hi guys!
I’m sitting the D4 and D5 exams in a few weeks and am looking for some exam style questions so I can practice.
Does anyone have any D4/ D5 style questions they would be willing to share + any tips on what to focus on?
Thanks in advance and good luck to anyone else studying 📚 🍷 🍾
And I passed with Merit 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
I honestly wasn’t very confident about the short answer questions, but here we are!
I highly recommend WWJ without a doubt, It’s probably what helped me the most during the course, I watched most of the videos before my in-person classes and helped me to understand everything better.
Now I will wait for save some money and start to think about Diploma 🫡
Im starting the three day level 2 course this weekend; I’m curious for anyone else who had done it in the last was the experience reasonably social? I find that most wine events can be a bit standoffish. Ideally I’d like to meet some others into wine during this course despite it only being three days long.
I have completed Wset 3 with ease and i am now considering doing 4.
Im doing it just for fun, i work in engineering and have no economical incent to do so. Judt entertainment and fun.
Would anyone here that has or is doing wset 4 tell me how much work it actually is? I image every stage of 4 to be like a lvl 3 exam. Am i wrong?
Please help me decide
I've read the Zraly text cover to cover (Windows on the World) and I'm working through the Wine Bible now. I'm interested in getting my level 2 before I take a huge wine trip this year. Should I keep reading the Wine Bible or would my time be better spent switching to Level 2 materials? I'm trying to make the exam as easy as possible for myself by the time I'm able to take it.
Hey all - about a month into prepping for the WSET Level 2 exam, I realised something like 60% of the questions hinge on knowing which grapes grow where (and how the same grape behaves differently across regions). Flashcards weren't sticking, so I built a small map for myself.
It's at https://terroir.cc/ - pick a grape and it highlights every region in scope on the world map; pick a region and it shows what's grown there with a per-pairing style note (Cab in Pauillac vs Coonawarra, etc.). 33 grapes and 125 regions covered, all from the official WSET L2 spec + my own ebook readings.
No signup, no ads, no tracking. Source on GitHub if anyone wants to fork it for L3 or another qualification: https://github.com/AbsolutelyTotal/terroir
Caveats: it's reference-only (no quiz mode yet), and I sanity-checked the data against the WSET PDFs but I'm one person - mistakes happen. If you spot anything wrong, GitHub issues or replies here are welcome.
Hope it's useful for anyone else prepping for the exam 🍇