WSET Diploma revision notes🍇🍷🎓📘📝
In 2019 I completed my WSET Diploma. I thought it might be a good idea to share my revision notes with you… But be careful as since then, the program has changed. Most of my notes are still accurate, but some countries are not in the syllabus anymore and some new ones have been added, and the exam questions completely the same. Example: China, brand new in the prgram! Xie Xie 😉 Nov 5th, 2021 update: After several requests, I have put my documents in editable format. Use and share 🙂
- 2017-2018 Examiners’ Report
- Systematic Approach to Tasting Excel format
- Syllabus (August 2017)
- My WSET Diploma reading list
Unit 1 – The Global Business of Alcoholic Beverages
Unit 2 – Wine production
- Reading notes “Viticulture – Nick Skelton”
- Reading Notes “Understanding Wine Technology – David Bird”
Units 4, 5 & 6 – Spirits, Sparklings and Fortified
- Past papers
- Sparklings: Production & tasting profiles synthetic table
- Sparklings: Production methods
- Sparklings: France
- Sparklings: Germany (Sekt)
- Sparklings: Spain (Cava)
- Sparklings: Italy
- Sparklings: New World
- Spirits: Production & tasting profiles synthetic tables
Unit 3 – Light wines of the World
- 10 top tips to prepare for the exam
- Past 15 years papers – Excel Sheet – Tasting & Theory
- Essay: Examples & Advice
- Tasting tips and advice to write your tasting notes the day of the exam
- Statistics per country synthetic table
- Grape varieties Excel Sheet (Characteristics, Tasting profiles…)
- Countries Excel Sheet (Statistics, regions, grapes…)
- Main producers Excel Sheet
- Blank training maps
- Hand drawn maps (by me ! 😄)
- Common wine aromas and in which wines they can be found
- Video playlists per country
- FRANCE Bordeaux
- FRANCE South-West
- FRANCE Burgundy
- FRANCE Beaujolais
- FRANCE Loire
- FRANCE Rhône
- FRANCE Languedoc & Roussillon
- FRANCE Provence
- FRANCE Corsica
- FRANCE Alsace
- SPAIN
- ITALY
- PORTUGAL
- GERMANY
- SWITZERLAND
- AUSTRIA
- AUSTRALIA
- NEW ZEALAND
- USA
- CANADA
- ARGENTINA
- CHILE
- MEXICO
- URUGUAY
- BRAZIL
- SOUTH AFRICA
- HUNGARY
- BULGARIA
- ROMANIA
- LEBANON
- TURKEY
- GREECE
- CYPRUS
- ENGLAND & WALES
Comments
thank you very much for sharing these study materials. really useful 🙂
I love your content Marion. Thank you a lot
You’re welcome. I shared my notes to help 🙂
Bonjour Marion! Thank you for all of these notes, they are a big help! Is it possible to allow editing for all of the documents? When I open them up on google docs, they still say view only. Thank you again!
Hello AUdrey! Thank you for your kind words; I’m so glad you’re finding the notes helpful! To edit the documents, you just need to download the file and open it in your preferred program. Thank you again and all the best with WSET!
Merci Marion. Your notes are very useful and do help me a lot. I have a little question, what is the meaning of “//” in the content? e.g. [Bordeaux: blended with merlot. Margaux more feminine & elegant // Pauillac & St Estèphe. Graves = lighter. Moulis, Listrac, St Estèphe=more power, more Merlot]
Bonjour Eric,
Merci beaucoup pour votre message, je suis ravie que mes notes vous soient utiles !
Concernant votre question sur l’utilisation de « // » dans le contenu : il s’agit simplement d’une manière de séparer ou de comparer des idées ou des termes rapidement, tout en gardant une structure claire. Par exemple :
Bordeaux : souvent assemblé avec du merlot pour plus de souplesse et d’élégance.
Margaux : connu pour son caractère plus féminin et élégant // Pauillac et St-Estèphe : généralement plus puissants.
Graves : des vins souvent plus légers // Moulis, Listrac, St-Estèphe : plus de structure et de puissance, avec une proportion plus élevée de merlot.
Cela permet de mettre en évidence les différences ou les points de comparaison en un coup d’œil. J’espère que cela clarifie les choses !
N’hésitez pas si vous avez d’autres questions, et bonne chance dans vos révisions et dégustations.
Cordialement,
Marion