Your Grape Experience Summer 2021 Newsletter is here! Read about our new merger between our East Coast WSET operations and Commonwealth Wine School, Q&A with Commonwealth's founder and director Jessica Sculley, upcoming classes, and more! - https://t.co/kLwXEaJqzl
We're back teaching classes in person! Read more about how we are keeping classrooms safe for educators and students in this newsletter. Plus, meet the GE faculty, starting with @mattswineworld. Photo credit: @chloeaftel for @nytimes https://t.co/nploCvT6NU #grapeexperience
Check it out! The Grape Experience winter 2021 newsletter has landed: upcoming live Zoom and online classes, wine industry events, and an interview with Mark Davidson, Head of Education for the Americas, @wine_australia. It's all here: https://t.co/BSaA6wm445
Grape Experience Fall 2020 Newsletter is here: new GE courses, Q&A with Jim Gore, DipWSET of #GlobalWineAcademy, and new scholarship offering in partnership with #DiversityinWineandSpirits - https://t.co/6vq3HMcUym Photo credit: @burgundywineman
There is no doubt that one of the beautiful parts of the California wine industry is that there are world famous examples in this one state of just as many grapes as the entire country of France. The state has a wide… https://t.co/itSVxZO8KH
The events of the past two weeks have shown that more then ever we need to be united as a country to ensure that everyone benefit from our democracy and are treated equal under the law. There are some incredible… https://t.co/WCNgolX83Y
For all you Bay Area wine, spirit, and sake students, check out this event happening in Napa next week! We’ve got a discount code for you to receive $70 off your ticket - “bevproreferral.” Sharing, tasting, and… https://t.co/sp3WILuLYM
Clay is an important component in soils, though too much of it can be a bad thing. It retains water which in a dry climate or for a variety such as Merlot is ideal, especially when it’s with free draining soils like… https://t.co/n5S4IeZkgs
Old vines always provoke lots of debate: do they add to the quality of a wine or is it just that they’re planted in the best places? Or is that they force winemakers to work with lower yields and focus on quality… https://t.co/Xmhcg5ZfrB
Fortified wines are some of the greatest and most historical wines in the world, and learning about them provides great insight into how winemaking affects style. For a recent Level 3 class, students compared three… https://t.co/I7DO1tlPKG
As you can see from this line up, taking a WSET course is a lot of fun but it’s also a lot of hard work! Over the course of a day, students taste 18 wines from regions all around the world—learning about what the… https://t.co/LR24LFNju6
Wine has been a central part of different cultures for thousands of years. Here’s a celebration of a worker in Rioja, whose wines have been famous ever since pilgrims started walking the Camino de Santiago. Rioja is… https://t.co/BPRKYbKuXw
What will you be drinking New Year’s Eve?? Sparkling wine and champagne are always solid choices - we’re getting a little geeky with some sparkling Txakoli and brut nature blanc de blancs - plus we’re throwing in a… https://t.co/u773TVoC7U
Welcome to the new Diploma in Wine! On Saturday, WSET Diploma students started D3, the new unit covering wines of the world. It’s a big one, and students will be preparing over the next six months to take the exam in… https://t.co/gcBkbWo2ID
Wine grapes have a wide range of incredibly unique qualities, all of which must be taken into consideration in the vineyard and winery to produce the desired wine style. In WSET Level 2, you’ll gain knowledge of the… https://t.co/vMEj1M8oIM