Italy’s specialist English language wine training provider

WSET® Certification in Italy, helping students reach their goals

Learn about the world of wine with Wine Academy Italia

Wine Academy Italia, wine courses in Italy through The Wine & Spirit Education Trust

The Wine & Spirit Education Trust

The Wine & Spirit Education Trust is the world’s largest provider of wine education, offering qualifications recognised across the globe.

WSET courses offer students and professionals the opportunity to study the world of wine, gain valuable international qualifications and enhance both their communication and tasting skills. Wine Academy Italia uses only highly experienced tutors, top-quality tasting samples and offers the very best classroom experience at interesting venues across the country.

Specialist Wine Training in Italy

WSET Level 1 offers a basic introduction to wine. WSET Level 2 is the starting point for most of our students, the aim of this course is to focus on wine tasting skills, key grape varieties and regions of production. WSET Level 3 intensifies your world wine knowledge and further develops your tasting and communication skills.

What our students say

“Was a pleasure to enjoy WSET with you”
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MM, L2 Wines, Montepulciano.
“Great class. Look forward to joining you for the next level.”
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A.B. Italy, Level 2
“An amazing opportunity to taste wines from so many different climates and countries.”
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S.R. Italy, Level 2
“I really enjoyed studying with you; it was enriching and fun – just what a perfect course should be.”
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ALMA The School of Italian Culinary Arts, Reggia di Colorno

ALMA Partnership

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We are delighted to announce our collaboration with ALMA “The School of Italian Culinary Arts” A world-renowned institute for the promotion of Italian food and wine excellence based at the stunning Reggia di Colorno. We will be teaching 5 WSET courses at ALMA this year, Robert will also be teaching wine business English courses. Details…
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Back to class?

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2021 has, so far, been a frustrating year. COVID 19 continues to cause much pain and suffering across the world. We have on several occasions hoped to restart classroom courses only to be blocked from doing so. Finally, there does appear to be optimism that the end of April or early May could see some…
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Winter 2020

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2020 has been a challenging year for everybody, the pandemic has caused enormous human and financial damage across the world. For much of the year we have been unable to run in person classes and exams, this has unfortunately led to disruption for some students. As I write this, Italy has entered another lockdown which…
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Summer 2020

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The summer is now here, traditionally a quiet time, we will continue our online activities including the new wine business English course. We were delighted to get back in the classroom last week for WSET Level 2 at Casa Chianti Classico, 108 days since we’d been able to teach in person. Online course are highly…
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Stay at Home

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Stay at Home. Covid19 is having devastating consequences across the world and our thoughts go out to everyone affected and also to those working so hard to make sure that we all get through it. Here at Wine Academy Italia we will not operate classroom courses until the beginning of June 2020, at the earliest….
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