Our WSET Level 3 Award in Wines course is for those that have already gained WSET Level 2 wine knowledge or equivalent and want to take their learning further.
Our WSET Level 3 Award in Wines course is for those that have already gained WSET Level 2 wine knowledge or equivalent and want to take their learning further.
Description
WSET Level 3 Award in Wines is an internationally recognised wine qualification suited to wine connoisseurs and those in the drinks and hospitality industries in a supervisory capacity.
During this classroom based Level 3 course, you will learn about wines in a thorough and structured manner and acquire in-depth knowledge enabling you to advise about wine selection with authority.
What you’ll learn
Unit one:
The key factors in the production of wine: location, grape growing, winemaking, maturation and bottling
How these key factors influence the key characteristics of the principal
still wines of the world
sparkling wines of the world
fortified wines of the world
How to apply your understanding to explain wine style and quality
Unit two:
How to taste wines, describe their characteristics and evaluate their quality, using the WSET Level 3 Systematic Approach to Tasting Wine® (SAT)
How you are assessed
Unit one:
Multiple-choice paper of 50 questions
Question paper requiring four short written answers
Unit two:
Blind tasting of two wines
You will be gently guided through how to taste by WSET and Riedel Award winning Educator and Enjoy Discovering Wine owner, Erica Dent DipWSET. Our pass rates tell the story, often gaining 100 percent pass rates in Unit two, tasting.
This qualification is accredited at Level 3 in the UK National Qualifications Framework. It is a prerequisite for candidates planning to study for the WSET Level 4 Diploma in Wines and Spirits qualification.
About Erica Dent – Wine Educator
It’s quite unusual to have the words “enjoy” and “exam” quite so close together, so how do we make this happen for you?
The simple answer is Erica – her passion and enjoyment for wine and wanting to share that with other people is one aspect, the engaging teaching style that she brings to the culture of Enjoy Discovering Wine and her belief that a good understanding of wine and food pairing is the key to the social and service aspects that make wine such an experience.
The beginning of my wine training
During a sabbatical from an early career in banking, I travelled to New Zealand where I worked in wineries and tasting rooms, then ended up spending a year on the Tairawhiti wine course pruning, building trellising, learning to drive forklifts and tractors, cleaning tanks and barrels, lab analysis of my grape juice, tasting faulty wines, to name just a small part of the course.
By the end of that wine course I had made ‘wine’ but more than that I had started my journey of wanting to learn more and more and knew that what needed to happen next was to expand my global wine knowledge.
I also wanted to have fun and was looking for a good excuse to share and absorb wine with a good friend; the WSET Level 2 evening course at the head-office in London fitted the plan perfectly.
Hooked on learning
Studying WSET Level 2 with a friend who, to this day I will not forget, decided that she quite liked German wine after all. To me that was one defining moment of what learning about wine is about, challenging prejudices and discovering ‘new’ wines. For us that wine course was about a social ‘excuse’ but one that we learnt an awful lot on.
Having successfully completed WSET Level 2 (WSET Level 1 was another ten years off being created) I craved more knowledge, also at this time I was pondering owning a very small vineyard (it is healthy to have dreams, no?), so the natural path was to sign up for WSET Level 3.
With a full-time job to hold down, plus I was already studying Italian (that was part of the dream back then), I decided to study WSET Level 3 as a distance-learner student.
It met my needs, I spent many hours with my thick (relative to the previous course material) ‘Exploring Wines and Spirits’ WSET book, while studying the wine tasting aspect with friends, and successfully passed the examination a few weeks later. The WSET Diploma followed on a few years after that.
Why I created Enjoy Discovering Wine
Having gained so much in life from learning and starting to teach, I decided that I wanted to do more of it, and also to create a business that brings wine to life for more people.
One of my great pleasures is seeing the educators I have carefully chosen grow and develop; some of these started their education with me and are now among more than 2,000* students that EDW has guided through their WSET studies.
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