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The MW exam revisited
As our Sam Cole-Johnson and 216 others prepare for next week’s MW exams, we look back at the very first exam, set in 1953. When writing yesterday’s FT article about...
Jancis Robinson
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Never before has a bootcamp had such soft furnishings.
Last month’s seminar for MW candidates who are resitting the practical...
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After I hung up the phone, my immediate thought was well, I can’t do it. I simply don’t know how...
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If there’s one thing I love more than a really good pun, it’s a really bad pun. The more groan-some...
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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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You know what studying for the MW is like? It’s like a perpetual funfair of JOY and AWESOMENESS where your...
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It shouldn’t be called a dissertation. It should be called academic waterboarding. The only thing more torturous than doing an...
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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.
Reproduced below...
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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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