Who It's For: Advanced students, WSET and CMS candidates working on structured tasting, those sharpening their blind tasting instincts, and wine drinkers ready to test what they think they know.
Italy's great red traditions all follow the same basic pattern. A regional wine at the base, more focused village or subzone bottlings above it, and a long-aged tier at the top. The wines share a grape family and often a producer, but by the time they reach the glass they can feel like distant cousins rather than siblings.
This advanced class trains your palate to spot the differences without help from the label. We taste Nebbiolo, Sangiovese, and Corvina-based blends across their tiers, blind where possible, and work through the specific cues that separate a young regional wine from a village bottling from a long-aged reserve. Aromatics shift. Structure changes. Fruit character evolves. Once you know what to track, the tier becomes visible in the glass before the bottle ever comes out of the bag.