WSET Level 2 in Wines Virtual Course

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Welcome to the WSET Level 2 Award in Wines – Virtual Course

This course is delivered by Wine Way (WSET Approved Program Provider) and hosted on the Thirsty and Wise learning platform.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Understand how climate, vineyard practices, and winemaking decisions influence wine style and quality
  • Identify major international grape varieties and the styles of wine they produce
  • Recognize key wine-producing countries and regions covered at Level 2 and what they are known for
  • Use the WSET Level 2 Systematic Approach to Tasting (SAT) to describe wines accurately and confidently
  • Interpret common wine label terms to make informed buying and selling decisions
  • Apply core food and wine pairing principles
  • Explain the main factors that influence wine quality and price
  • Feel fully prepared for the WSET Level 2 multiple-choice exam

Course Content

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  • Level 2 Virtual Course – WELCOME
    04:16

Tasting and Evaluating Wine
Tasting wines increases your appreciation by allowing you to examine them in detail. Although the process can seem repetitive at frits, with practice it becomes a subconscious habit.

Pairing Wine and Food
Food that is consumed with wine has an effect on the way you perceive a wine, and wine can also have a similar effect on food. The purpose of food and wine pairing is to take advantage of theses effects, so that the food and wine consumed together ideally provide more pleasure than either would if consumed separately. Knowledge of the ways in which food and wine interact with each other also helps to avoid negative or unpleasant combinations.

Storage and Service of Wine
There are many traditions associated with the storage and the service of wine. However, regardless of their history and local importance, they should all be designated to ensure the wine is served in the best possible condition.

Grape-growing and related Labeling Terms
Winemakers do not forge the grapes. Grapes for winemaking are grown in carefully managed vineyards. Grape-growing is a highly skilled job that requires the grower to control the vines in order to produce a regular crop of healthy grapes

Winemaking
Winemaking is a process that changes grape juice into wine. The most obvious difference between two is that wine has alcohol, but this is not the only difference. The various options that are available to a winemaker are used to create a large number of different wine styles.

Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is not an easy variety for the growers to cultivate, but its vines are highly sought after. Most Pinot Noirs are fruity, refreshing and enjoyable to drink when young. The finest examples improve with long maturation and can develop complex flavours after many years in the bottle.

Zinfandel/Primitivo
This is a grape variety that has established its reputation in two different countries. In California in the USA it is called Zinfandel; in Italy , notably in southern region of Puglia, it is called Primitivo.

Riesling
Riesling is a cold-hardy white grape that prefers cool to moderate climates. With its naturally high acidity and susceptibility to botrytis/noble rot, i is suitable for the production of outstanding-quality wines at all sweetness levels. Today Riesling is produced across the world in a variety of styles.

Chenin Blanc, Semillon and Furmint
These versatile grape varieties can all be used to make outstanding dry and sweet styles of wine in a number of different locations through the world.

Chardonnay
Chardonnay is a white grape variety that is prized for its ability to produce outstanding-quality wines in cool, moderate and warm climates. It produces a broad range of dry white wines, from inexpensive high-volume brands to premium quality wines that can evolve for years in the bottle.

Sauvignon Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc is an aromatic white grape variety that is best known for producing dry wines with distinctive herbaceous aromas and refreshing high acidity. Though it is considered to be a French variety, it is now widely grown in cool and moderate climates around the world. It produces wines that are most commonly unoaked and best consumed while young and fresh.

Pinot Grigio/Pinot Gris
Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris are two names for the same white grape variety. Pinot Grigio is the Italian name and Pinot Gris is the French name. It grows primarily in the cool or moderate climates and produces two distinct styles that are determined principally by grape-growing and harvesting choices.

Gewurztraminer, Viognier, Albarino
These three white grapes create very distinctive single-varietal wines. gewurztraminer and Viognier are responsible for some of the world's fullest bodied and most floral white wines. Albarino, is an increasingly fashionable grape variety known for refreshing wines with concentrated fruit flavors.

Merlot
From its homeland of Bordeaux, Merlot has been planted and exported throughout the world. It is a very versatile grape that can that can produce light, fruity wines intended for immediate consumption, as well as pronounced, concentrated wines that improve with oak and bottle maturation. It is often use to add an appealing softness to blends with higher-tannin black grape varieties, such as Cabernet Sauvignon.

Cabernet Sauvignon
cabernet Sauvignon is a black grape variety from sought-west France. It is notable for its pronounced black fruit and herbaceous aromas, high tannins and high acidity. Due to this natural features, it can produce outstanding-quality red wines that mature and develop for many years in the bottle. It is a grape variety behind many of the most famous wines from the left bank of Bordeaux in France. Today outstanding examples are made throughout the wine-producing world.

Syrah/Shiraz
Syrah and Shiraz are two names for the same grape variety. Syrah is the French name, while Shiraz is the name most commonly used in Australia. It is a black grape variety known for producing wines with black-fruit flavors and characteristic aroma of black pepper. It can produce soft and fruity wines meant for early drinking as well as exceptionally concentrated examples that evolve tertiary aromas in the bottle.

Gamay
Gamay is unusual grape variety because is achieved a global popularity even though the wines made from Gamay comes exclusively from one region, Beaujolais.

Grenache/Garnacha
This grape variety has thought to evolved in Spain where it is called Garnacha. From there is spread through the south f France and into Rhone Valley. Once in France its name changed to Grenache and this is the name that is most commonly used in the rest of the world.

Tempranillo
Tempranillo in Spain's most prized black grape variety and is key component of many of the country's famous red wines.

Carmenere, Malbec and Pinotage
Each one of this black grape varieties is closely associated with one of specific wine-producing nations, Chile, Argentina, south Africa respectively. While each of these countries has achieved success with wines made from more well known grape varieties, these regional specialties provide a point of difference on the crowded global wine market and have contributed to the identity of the wine-producing countries in which are most widely grown.

Cortese, Garganega, Verdicchio, Fiano
Italy is home to many hundreds of grape varieties, many of which are only grown in one region. A few have become particularly famous for the distinctive and unique wines that they produce. This chapter focuses on four Italian white grape varieties that are each of local importance in particular regions.

Nebbiolo, Barbera, Corvina
Northern Italy's vineyard regions are located in the foothills of the Alps and on the flat plains of rivers. Many of the finest vineyard areas benefit from the protection of the mountains to the north and the broad variety of slopes and soils that they provide. The climate here is generally moderate. This chapter focuses on the three important black grape varieties in northern Italy.

Sangiovese and Montepulciano
Sangiovese and Montepulciano are the two most important black grape varieties of central Italy. They benefit from the warm climate here are both capable of producing concentrated red wines. The Apennines Mountains run down the spine of Italy, dividing the western region of Tuscany, where Sangiovese dominates, from Abruzzo to the east, where Montepulciano is widely planted.

Sparkling Wines
Bubbles in sparkling wines are created by dissolved carbon dioxide gas (CO2). They can be added by pumping carbon dioxide thorough a wine, but most premium quality sparkling wine producers harness the CO2 that is naturally created as a by-product of fermentation. Sparkling wines are most commonly produced using one of the two methods: bottle fermentation or tank method.

Fortified Wines
Sherry and Port are fortified wines, which means that additional alcohol is added to the wine. Traditionally, fortification was used to strengthen wine to protect it from spoilage. All Port is sweet and is made by interrupting the fermentation using fortification. Most Sherry is made in a dry style, but it is sometimes sweetened later on. Both Sherry and Port are made in a range of diverse styles.

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