When it comes to celebrating Valentine’s Day, we love nothing more than staying in, cooking a good meal, and opening up a great bottle of wine. So if you’re like us, you may wonder what type of wine to pair with your meal. Whether you’re cooking up some fancy seafood or steaks, something vegetarian, or … Read more
WSET Diploma D4 covers all things sparkling wine and, to me, was the most daunting outside of D3: Wines of the World. The reason for this is that while the category of sparkling wine does not have many broad topics, the devil is in the details with many nuanced topics on things like local laws, … Read more
When it comes to drinking wine in our home of Pittsburgh, PA, we have no shortage of great wine bars to check out (we’ve been to many of them on our city blog at the previous link). But only one wine bar stands out as being our very favorite- Allegheny Wine Mixer in Lawrenceville. This … Read more
If there was a module of WSET Diploma I was looking forward to, insofar as one can look forward to studying at this intense level, it most certainly was D5: Fortified Wines. Part of this was because I simply adore fortified wines and was looking forward to studying (read: drinking), part was because I knew … Read more
WSET Diploma’s D5 module is all about fortified wine. On the surface, this one sounds like a somewhat straightforward module if only because there aren’t that many fortified wine categories and styles out there in the world. But, as with all things WSET, simply stating this fact makes the program easier said than done. The … Read more
