WSET Level Three Award in Wine with Mike Knowlden, Perennial Wine at Little Swift

Take your wine knowledge to the next level with this eight-day advanced level course for wine professionals and wine enthusiasts. We'll delve deeper into the world of wine, providing a detailed understanding of grape growing and wine making. You’ll develop your analytic tasting abilities through a carefully selected series of 82 wine samples. 

What you’ll learn:

The key factors in the production of wine: location, grape growing, winemaking, maturation and bottling

The key characteristics of the principal:

still wines of the world

sparkling wines of the world

fortified wines of the world

How to make appropriate wine recommendations

How to taste wines using the WSET Level 3 Systematic Approach to Tasting Wine® (SAT)

Tutored tastings of 82 wines

The specification can be found here.

Who’s it for?

This course is aimed at hospitality professionals and knowledgeable enthusiasts. We recommend that you already hold the WSET Level 2 Award in Wines or can demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge. If you’d like to talk through which qualification would be best suited to you please get in touch.

Where is the course held?

Little Swift, is a natural wine & wine shop; right on Margate’s seafront. It’s hard not to be struck by their wall of wine. With over 200 wines to choose from, natural, organic & biodynamic wines with corkers grown a stone’s throw away in Kent. It is run by Steve & Charlotte: career hospitality people united by infectious passions, and a joint desire to make wine fun and accessible. Little Swift is the home of wine education in Margate, hosting classes in an intimate setting, with the finest sea view over Margate as a back-drop.

Course dates (students are required to attend all 8 days): 

September 28th & 29th, October 5th & 6th, 12th & 13th (Break for half term) November  3rd & 10th

The exam will be on the final afternoon, one of the days we hope to visit a local vineyard TBC.

Tea, coffee and a light lunch each day is included.

Course days run 9.30-5pm

For more detailed information on what is covered in the courses please see the specification here. 

*Please note a booking form must be completed two weeks prior to course start date.  

About your educator

Mike is a wine educator who shares Wild Wine School's fervour for sustainability in wine. He holds wine events under the banner Perennial Wine, for both the industry and consumers. Mike has the Diploma in Wine from WSET, alongside a varied background front and back of house as co-founder of Blanch & Shock.

What our students say about this course...

"...your teaching has been outstanding - balanced between getting through all the syllabus but also offering enough interesting extras and anecdotes to make the facts memorable.

Definite highlights have been getting to smell all the wet grass, forest floor & mushroom smells on the first morning walk, the smell of Gevery-Chambertain, and a serious bout of reminiscing/wanderlust induced by the Chianti this afternoon." 

Ben Piper, Newquay

"Thank you very much for putting on a really enjoyable, informative and well-executed course. I learnt loads, and found the whole experience excellent. It was a great group, really nice to get to know everyone."

Jim Michell, St Wenn