“Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone”

— Thomas Jefferson

Fine Vintage, Ltd. is offering WSET’s advanced certification course in Chicago beginning this weekend on April 6. Over three weekends - five and a half days of classroom study - we’ll taste 75+ wines to prepare you for the rigorous WSET Level 3 exam. You will definitely want to have your WSET Level 2 certification (or have just taken the Level 2 course, even if you don’t yet have your results) so you have a thorough grounding in WSET’s important Structured Approach to Tasting.

This is a serious course, but it’s also an immensely rewarding course. We cover a broad range of material and train you in important skills of deductive reasoning to “connect the dots” about wine production and wine style.

The course begins Saturday, April 6, 2024 and continues every other weekend, ending on Sunday, May 5, 2024 with the final exam. This exam does include a blind tasting of two wines and everyone is very worried about this because Levels 1 and 2 don’t have a tasting exam. In fact, after tasting 90 wines with me in class you will have your tasting skills at a very high level. Where you really want the coaching and intensive study Fine Vintage provides is for the four “short answer” questions that make up more than half the total exam score. We give you plenty of homework to study and extensive coaching in class to have you in the best position possible to do well on the exam.

For a further description of what Level 3 entails, please check my course description page here.

If you want to take Level 3, I encourage you to register right away - space is limited and you need to review the text before the first class. Simply click the button below to go straight to the Fine Vintage, Ltd website’s Chicago course page. I look forward to seeing you in class!!