Tagged with "wine education"

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The role of a Wine Specialist at Waitrose

Stephen interviews Chris Elkins, a qualified Wine Specialist from the Salisbury branch of Waitrose. Chris explains to Stephen the role of the Wine Specialist, how they are trained and most importantly, how they can help Waitrose customers with their wine purchasing decisions.

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The best place to learn more about wine – WSET

If you’ve ever wanted to do a foundation course on wine but weren’t sure where to go – well this is the place. Actually, you don’t even necessarily have to go there as you could start with the ‘Make Time for Wine Online Course’. The WSET was set up to train the wine trade, but [...]

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Did you know this about Waitrose?

Here I interview Andrew Shaw the Wine Buying Manager at Waitrose to find our more about what makes Waitrose so special and why it wins so many wine retailing awards. Waitrose differentiates itself from other large wine retailers and because of this I was keen to have Waitrose as a launch partner for Mirabeau.

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Wine courses for the general public

There are plenty of wine courses available for the general public and here Angela gives us some details of the best two (website addresses are given at the end of the video).

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What is an MW?

Here Stephen meets up with Angela Muir who explains what an MW (or Master of Wine) actually is.