Anyone here ever take an online sommelier class? I was looking at a few like the NWS. Curious if anyone here has done that

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WSET has online versions of their classes

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I took the wset level 2 online, I highly recommend it. Got a set of indiviual samples for tasting at home and had the sparkling wines session in person as rebottling in individual servings spoils them. The exam was in person too. You can attend the lessons live via skype/teams or watch the recordings and perform the tastings in your own time.

I’m based in Europe though, but I’m guessing similar formats should be available in the US

I took the WSET3 online.

It was good, but given the tasting portion of the exam plus the difficulty of the short answer questions, I wish I'd done it via an approved local partner, as I doubt I had enough practice before the exam in the online format.

Took an online master class from James suckling that was really fun and very interesting! this was pretty much a general class for starting or beginning wine lovers nothing on a Somm level.

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