Category: WSET Level 4 Wine

Cava and German Sekt can meet in the same tasting flight without telling the same production story. One has a protected Spanish origin and compuls

Italy's sparkling wines don't all begin with the same ambition. Franciacorta and Trentodoc build their identities around bottle fermentation and m

Prosecco and Asti can both put a large pressure tank at the centre of production, yet they ask it to do different jobs. One familiar sequence star

French sparkling wines beyond Champagne aren't one substitute waiting for a cheaper price tag. Crémant d'Alsace, Crémant de Bourgogne, Crémant

A Champagne label can describe several different things at once: the harvest year, grape colour, finished sweetness, origin and producer's place i

Champagne production is a sequence of decisions about fruit, time and balance. The second fermentation creates the sparkle, but it doesn't repair

Champagne's vineyards do something rather demanding: supply grapes with enough flavour for a finished wine while retaining the acidity and moderat

Sparkling wine starts with a practical question: where will the carbon dioxide come from, and how will the producer keep it in the wine? The answe

D3 revision gets interesting when the maps come off the wall. Can you explain why two wines made from the same grape taste different? Can you supp