Our Director of Education, Robert McNulty, has just returned from another intense week judging at Decanter Magazine’s World Wine Awards (#DWWA2018) in London. The world’s biggest wine competition attracted 17000 individual entries this year. Wines are judged by teams of experts from across the world, incredibly diverse panels. Robert said “An invaluable week from an …
Napa Valley and its incredible wines.
Robert has just returned from a week in Napa Valley hosted by Napa Valley Vintners. A diverse and dynamic region making some very special wines. During the week he had the opportunity to visit numerous wineries, taste hundreds of wines and attend workshops covering topics such as organic/biodynamic farming and the latest winemaking techniques. There …
Specialist Wine Training
This week we spent several highly enjoyable days in Tuscany running WSET Level 2 Award in Wines & Spirits. This particular course was hosted by Tenute Piccini at their headquarters near Castellina in Chianti and attended by a range of their employees from winemakers, export managers through marketing and retail managers. Tenute Piccini, one of …
Specialist Wine Training for your business.
The February edition of Drinks International magazine contains a feature outlining our collaboration with the Consorzio Tutela Vini Soave to provide WSET wine training. The first course was held in November 2017, additional dates are planned for this year. Wine Academy Italia is delighted to work in partnership with a wide variety of Consorzio and businesses …
WSET courses in Puglia
We are delighted to offer our first WSET courses in Puglia. Our venue is the beautiful Castello Monaci winery and hotel in San Pancrazio Salentino, a wonderful location in which to study and learn more about this amazing region. Our course prices include IVA, WSET materials, teaching and tasting, as well as lunch each day. …
Corsi #WSET Online
We are delighted to offer students the opportunity of studying both WSET Level 2 Award in Wines & Spirits and WSET Level 3 Award in Wines online through wineacademyitalia.com Tasting wine in a group, for the purposes of learning and feedback, is a great advantage of joining our classroom courses. However, we realise that not …
Consorzio Vini Soave collaboration
We are delighted to announce our forthcoming collaboration with the Consorzio Tutela Vini Soave to provide English language wine training for their producers. Initial courses start in November 2017 and will continue on a regular basis. The Soave Consorzio is highly successful in raising the profile of wines from this beautiful region. Producers and the …
WSET è il primo posto al mondo
WSET è il primo posto al mondo. L’anno scorso un numero record di studenti ha studiato corsi WSET. 85.487 candidati si sono esaminati attraverso la serie di qualifiche riconosciute a livello internazionale (un aumento del 19% rispetto all’anno precedente) rendendo WSET la più popolare organizzazione del settore della formazione del vino nel mondo. WSET è relativamente nuovo per l’Italia, …
WSET and a once in a lifetime trip to Bordeaux
Earlier this month I completed a once in a lifetime visit to Bordeaux as part of the 2017 Institute of Masters of Wine 20th Anniversary Student Trip, one benefit for the huge volume of work that must be completed on year one of the programme. This was not my first visit to the region, …
WSET Courses in Italy 2017
Wine Academy Italia WSET Courses in Italy during 2017. We have just finished running our October WSET Level 2 at Serego Alighieri #Masi in Valpolicella. A great group of students and such a wonderful venue. We are busy for the remainder of 2016 (in November we have Level 3 courses in Campania, Sicily and Valpolicella), …
WSET courses in Italy
2016 has been a busy year for Wine Academy Italia and WSET courses in Italy. We are now running programmes at fabulous winery venues in Campania, Umbria, Sicily, Sardegna and the Veneto. We have also added courses in central Rome. September sees the launch of the new WSET Level 3 Award in Wines. Our …
WSET courses in Italy, where to start?
WSET courses Italy, where to start? This year seems to be passing by at a brisk pace, we have just finished a fabulous week running WSET Level 3 Award in Wines & Spirits at Serego Alighieri #Masi in #Valpolicella. Next, we head off to Argiolas in Sardegna and Donnafugata in Sicilia, so fortunate to have …