Our trip started with the early Eurostar to Brussels (the train actually goes to Amsterdam, but stops in Brussels and The Hague too).
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A trip to the Mosel valley
“This summer, I’m going to Germany to drink lots of German wines.”
Say that to any random person and you’ll probably get a number of confused looks, if not outright mockery:
- GERMAN wines?
- I did not know they made wine out there!
- Aren’t they sickly sweet?
- etc…
To be honest, I was one of those people who thought wine couldn’t be made in Germany.
Or rather, it hadn’t even crossed my mind that it was possible!
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If you haven’t yet, make sure to read part 1 (how to study the theory) and part 2 (how to prepare for the practice exam).
This is the final set of advice and tips I can share and which didn’t quite fit the previous installments 🙂
I’ve broken it down in various sections so it is a bit more palatable.
Continue reading “More ideas and resources to study for the WSET Level 3 Award in wines exam”My favourites from the Bancroft Wines 2022 portfolio tasting
I was invited to attend this event last June (many thanks to Kat!).
It was quite a huge event with LOTS of producers showcasing a veritable variety of wines, and I quickly realised I could not even remotely try as many as I wanted, so I took a quick executive decision to just focus on the producers from the areas that have been intriguing me the most lately: Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, and neighbouring and “up and coming” trend-wise areas from France such as Alsace and Loire Valley.
Unfortunately left untasted were wines from Friulia in the north of Italy, Abruzzo, many from New Zealand and Australia (I was really looking forward to trying out more of their Pinot Noir and Rieslings), etc, etc.
Here are the ones I tasted and liked the best:
Continue reading “My favourites from the Bancroft Wines 2022 portfolio tasting”How to prepare (and study!) for the WSET Level 3 Award in wines practice exam
If you somehow landed here and missed part 1, here’s the link so you know how I would approach studying for the theory exam.
My one-sentence advice would be: maximise your chances… and now I’ll explain why.
The practice exam consists in blind tasting two wines, and describing them using the WSET’s SAT method.
At this level, you are NOT meant to identify which wine is it or which grapes was it made with. You’re just meant to describe it in terms of flavours, aromas and other variables such as levels of sweetness or acidity.
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