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WSET Diaries Part 8: The EXAM

17 May 2011
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Read the rather inconsequential Week 7 on my blog, if you feel the need. Right – exam time. All those many weeks of immersing myself in wine (not literally of course) are finally put to the test. All those minutes spent idly flicking through pages and pages of the WSET textbook in the final minutes [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 6: A Sound Like A Contented Lady

8 April 2011
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Read Part 5 on our sister site RedWine.co.uk. Sparkling wine, sweet wine, Sherry and Port; also known as ‘other’, if not ‘misc’. I was surprised, but not especially bothered, that rosé wines don’t seem to have featured at all in our tastings yet, but that’s fine – I know what they taste like, and about once a [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 3: Facing One’s Prejudices

18 March 2011
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Read Part 2 on our sister site RedWine.co.uk. Well, I went into week three of my WSET Intermediate wine course thinking Spain makes great, affordable reds and passable whites; Portugal makes port and not much else; and Italy makes a load of old rubbish that tastes like watery tar and invariably costs too much. (The only [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 1: Fun is Over – This is Serious

1 March 2011
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Read the introductory Part 0 on my blog, Coin du Vin, here. It’s on! My slow and painful ascendancy to the top of the international wine industry has finally begun in earnest with Week 1 of my WSET Intermediate certificate evening class in a classified location in an indoor bowling centre somewhere in the South [...]

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