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		Following on from The Wine Scholar Guild’s excellent October Bordeaux wine tour, our locally based Tour Manager, Sarah, is continuing her series of articles about travel tips to Bordeaux. This fourth blog looks at some of the others things you should see & do here during your next Bordeaux wine...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
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		The Wine Scholar Guild takes great pride in its high-caliber program provider network. Our instructors are consummate and extraordinarily educated wine professionals. They stand out among their peers. Each year, we honor the best of the best in recognition of their stellar accomplishments as...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Julien Camus	
		
		
					
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		The Wine Scholar Guild is starting 2019 with a bang. Andrew Jefford, award winning author and columnist for Decanter, has joined the WSG education team as Academic Advisor. This marks an exciting new chapter in the Guild’s evolution and growth. Julien Camus, WSG President, comments, “We are...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Kirra Barnes	
		
		
					
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		If you are planning a romantic Valentine’s Day celebration and want to impress your partner with the best possible wine for the occasion, overlook everything you think you know about wine pairing. Forget choosing a red to match the steak or a white for the flounder. Lose the Champagne with...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Pierre Freyermuth	
		
		
					
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		Massimiliano Guerra, IWS, FWS, Wine Enthusiast We have our first ever perfect score on the Italian Wine Scholar exams!	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Pierre Freyermuth	
		
		
					
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		Where is your wine journey taking you? Diving into your study materials, tasting a memorable wine, enjoying an exquisite meal, attending a tasting or touring wine country? Put your Wine Scholar Tag on the picture and share your experience on Instagram with #WineScholar hashtag!	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Pierre Freyermuth	
		
		
					
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		Ciro Pirone is the Director of Italian Wines for Horizon Beverage Group and will be teaching the next online Italian Wine Scholar course beginning in February. In under 30 minutes Ciro gives us the fascinating history of Italian sparkling wine production, and discusses key points on the spumante...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Pierre Freyermuth	
		
		
					
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		Wine Scholar Guild's Education Director Lisa Airey speaks to events in the past that have shaped some of the regions.	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Sharon Mclean	
		
		
					
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		Thinking about signing up for the French Wine Scholar program? Be inspired by what our students are saying about the program and the top ten reasons they give for enrolling.	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Sarah Graham-Beck	
		
		
					
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		Following on from The Wine Scholar Guild’s excellent October Bordeaux wine tour, our locally based Tour Manager, Sarah, is continuing her series of articles about travel tips to Bordeaux. This third blog looks at some of Bordeaux’s top wine-shops. Unlike many other wine regions in the world, the...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Tom Hyland	
		
		
					
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		Mention the red wines of Tuscany and immediately examples such as Brunello di Montalcino, Chianti Classico and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano come to mind. Produced primarily or exclusively from the Sangiovese grape variety, these celebrated red wines truly define this region’s viticultural...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Julien Camus	
		
		
					
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		Decanter’s Andrew Jefford talks with us about Burgundy’s “Terroir Dreamland” or the Côte d’Or.	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Brooke Herron	
		
		
					
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		Meet Paul Miles, educator at IWEG in Toronto, Canada. School: IWEG Educator: Paul MilesLocation: Toronto Paul Miles has worked in both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage industry for over twenty years, specializing in brand strategy, channel and trade marketing, strategic account and...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Julien Camus	
		
		
					
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		Peter Liem talks with us about the progressive movement in Champagne. As we’ll discover in this conversation, there’s more to the terroir story than the chalk soils and the weather.	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Julien Camus	
		
		
					
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		We would like to thank Peter Weygandt, one of the most highly respected importer of French wine in the USA, for taking the time to carefully review the French Wine Scholar® study manual and write us such beautiful words of testimonial. PETER'S FULL TESTIMONIAL ABOUT THE FRENCH WINE SCHOLAR® MANUAL...	
	
		
	
	
					
				Julien Camus	
		
		
					
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		In this episode, we are chatting with Rick Fisher, Spanish Wine Scholar Education Director, about Sherry styles and getting a behind-the-scenes peek at the forthcoming Spanish Wine Scholar Program.	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Brooke Herron	
		
		
					
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		Sharon McLean is a Certified sommelier, DipWSET and Approved French Wine Scholar Program Provider at her firm Cru Consultancy, which she owns and operates with her partner, Treve Ring.She is also the Lead Instructor for the Wine Scholar Guild’s Live Online French Wine Scholar course series, an MW...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Sarah Graham-Beck	
		
		
					
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		… including excellent restaurants out in the wine regions. Preparing your next Bordeaux wine tour? Sarah Graham-Beck, Tour Manager on the Wine Scholar Guild’s Bordeaux wine tours will be writing a series of articles about travel tips to Bordeaux. In this first article, Sarah shares a selection of...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Brooke Herron	
		
		
					
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		An Interview With WSG's Newest French Wine Scholar Program Provider We were recently lucky enough to add a fantastic Belgian school to our global French Wine Scholar Program Provider network. Sybille Troubleyn of Winewise in Antwerp tells us in this interview about how she got into wine, why she...	
	
	
		
		
	
	
					
				Tom Hyland	
		
		
					
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		In the previous post, we considered lesser known red grape varieties and wines from Piemonte. For this article, we will examine similar wines and grapes from Trentino, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Sicily.	
	
	
		
		
	 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
				 
							 
				 
				