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Free for all Fancy your chances at identifying a late-harvest California Gewürztraminer or a Lagrein from Alto Adige? Last week, more than 150...

Free for all Many congratulations to these four new MWs announced today. The titles of the research papers sound hugely intriguing. So what...

Tasting articles To lure MWs to the Institute’s Annual General Meeting, and to reward those who have travelled from afar to attend...

Free for all On Monday 5 September, 13 MW students heard that their Research Papers had passed muster, and that they were therefore...

Free for all This morning, a baker's dozen of new Masters of Wine were told they had been admitted to the Institute. As...

Free for all It's notoriously tricky to make wine work on screen for the mainstream consumer – though ITV's current series The Wine...

Free for all There's probably a German word which means 'the feeling of relief you get when, after six years as a student...

Free for all See yesterday's exciting news. Confession: the main reason I became an MW student in 2009 was so that I could...

Free for all Even later that same day The Institute of Masters of Wine has now released the full list of today's proud...

Free for all See also this revealing tribute by Patrick Schmitt MW of The Drinks Business whom Mel mentored in the Master of...

Inside information 16 July 2015 Dated almost six years before the most recent instalment of my Diary of an MW student, here...

Free for all See also the 2015 MW exam paper. Cruxes – those moments when fate is hanging in the balance – arise...

Free for all One month ago, dozens of the pluckiest of the world's wine professionals sat the notoriously difficult exam for the Masters...

Inside information I got a funny feeling this month while working on my research paper. It was a familiar yet long-dormant sensation...

Free for all Many, many congratulations to the five new Masters of Wine announced on Friday afternoon, five MW candidates whose dissertations have...

Inside information Every day, I write ‘Research Paper!’ at the top of my to-do list. It’s equivalent to David Cameron writing ‘eliminate...