This comprehensive wine course provides essential product knowledge for anyone seeking to understand wine at a deeper level. Designed as an ideal starting point for wine trade members and industry professionals, the course offers structured education in retail, hospitality, sales, production, and distribution sectors. Serious wine consumers pursuing career advancement or simply wanting to expand their knowledge of wine will also find this course highly valuable and immediately applicable.
The curriculum emphasizes key grape varieties and major wine-producing regions globally, building foundational knowledge in wine classification and characteristics. Course topics include wine production fundamentals and factors affecting final quality, identification of key grape varieties by region and style, exploration of major wine production regions worldwide, understanding of sparkling wines, sweet wines, and fortified wine categories, interpretation of wine label terminology, principles of food and wine pairing, and mastery of the WSET Level 2 Systematic Approach to Tasting Wine.
Standard in-person classes meet weekly for six sessions, culminating in the final exam. Each three-hour class includes tasting approximately 20 wines, providing extensive sensory learning. The course maintains an exceptional pass rate exceeding 97 percent. Intensive two-day formats occasionally substitute for the weekly schedule. The final exam uses multiple-choice questions with a 55 percent passing score. All course materials are provided. WSET Level 1 is not required as a prerequisite for taking WSET Level 2.
