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2025 Golden Vines MW scholars announced
The Gérard Basset Foundation has announced this year’s Golden Vines MW Scholarships, supported by the famous Portuguese wine Barca-Velha. Launched in 2021, these scholarships are designed to give wine professionals...
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Wednesday 15 October 2025
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Golden Vines MW Scholarship shortlist 2025 – part 3
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Wednesday 13 August 2025
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The academic year for my practical-only resit course has now begun. Several MWs have recently said to me that passing...
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The 13 new Masters of Wine of 2011, nine of them women, were formally welcomed into the Institute at its...
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Well, that’s a load of my mind: yesterday I heard that I have passed the MW theory exam! Or, to...
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For the first time ever, the number of current Masters of Wine has reached 300. The Institute of Masters of...
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It has now been ten weeks since I sat the MW exams. Over the summer, I was quietly resolved to...
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Read it and weep, folks [and remember that questions can look deceptively simple; the examiners are looking for extremely detailed...
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Tomorrow – the theory p apers.
It's so much easier when they tell you what the wines are.
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Completing the MW exams wasn’t quite the death of me, but a post-mortem is nonetheless the most apt phrase. The...
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This morning the year's Master of Wine exams start at the Bishopsgate Institute in London, having already started in Australia...
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There’s only one thing you can be sure of on the MW course: every student thinks that every other student...
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Milestones and millstones this month – I have passed one of the former, but only in exchange for hanging one...
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Now that last week's second-year seminar week in Bordeaux is over, the next significant event is D-day itself, the dreaded...
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Yesterday, Sun 6 Feb, the second-year MW seminar week began. It is affectionately nicknamed bootcamp by its prospective detainees, of...
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I make no apology for writing about essay-writing again, because essays are a constant preoccupation as the June exams creep...
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