ONLINE WSET COURSES FOR SAN FRANCISCO, NAPA & ORLANDO

Wine and Spirit School offers the WSET Intermediate Certificate, Professional Certificate in Spirits, and the WSET Advanced Certificate courses in an online setting - perfect for those who find it difficult to attend regularly scheduled classes. Students register through us, take classes in an online, global classroom under the leadership of an instructor from WSET, and then sit their exam at one of our locations (San Francisco, Napa, or Orlando). For the Advanced Certificate course, students also attend a Tasting Tutorial at one of our locations just prior to their exam.

The courses are structured, interactive learning programs, but with the freedom of flexible scheduling.
Students from all over the world can log-in whenever they like (at least once a week for the Intermediate and Spirits courses, or at least once every two weeks for the Advanced course), review the summary of weekly or biweekly topics, study, complete activities and tasting exercises, post responses and participate in online class discussion.

Upon registration, you receive course materials and two weeks prior to the start date, an e-mail from WSET with instructions on logging into the online classroom. Once in the classroom site, you will find a course calendar listing the topics covered for each week, the background reading required, activities relevant to each topic, tasting assignments (students must purchase their own wine) and quizzes. The activities and tasting assignments require you to post responses on the site. You can view other students’ responses and the online exchange with the instructor only if you yourself post a response; interaction is critical to success in this course. A mock exam is given in the final week.

The Intermediate Certificate and Spirits courses includes five interactive classes over a five-week period followed by an in-person exam. The Advanced Certificate course includes eight interactive classes over a 16-week period followed by an in-person exam. The Online Advanced Certificate requires each student to attend a Tasting Tutorial at one of our locations, so that we can adequately prepare you for the Tasting Portion of the Online Advanced exam. Each course has specific start dates and exam dates, as well as registration deadlines.

ONLINE INTERMEDIATE CERTIFICATE
The Online Intermediate Course is split into 5 blocks of online study including regular feedback tests and a full mock exam. All students have access to the on-line tutor.

Week 1: Factors influencing Style, Quality and Price Sales and Service, Responsible Drinking
Week 2: Grapes Varieties
Week 3: Regional, Quality and Stylistic Labeling terms, Food and Wine matching
Week 4: Sparkling Wines, Sweet and Fortified Wines, Spirits and Liqueurs
Week 5: Review and Mock Exam