How to prepare for the WSET Level 3 Tasting Exam

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@kucuksomolye Жыл бұрын

Oh wow thanks for the tips, they are all greatly appreciated on my side. I'm currently taking WSET3 class however i was never mentioned any of such; do not swirl for nose intensity or acquaint the palate with alcohol or tannin before the exam. Kudos to you!

@WineWithJimmy Жыл бұрын

Glad we could help!

@lauracanna2201 Жыл бұрын

Some very good tips here, thank you Jimmy

@WineWithJimmy Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

@emjaesantos28 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jimmy! More Power and Subscribers.

@WineWithJimmy 4 жыл бұрын

More to come!

@Jamlha1959 4 жыл бұрын

Amazingly presented n very interesting video. Great help for me as a learner. Thank you so much Jimmy. I will be watching all Ur videos. Stay safe and thanks for the information. Buddha bless you.. cheers 🙏🌱

@WineWithJimmy 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@edinalengyel5160 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Jimmy and thank you for your awesome videos - I'm sure there's a lot of us out there whose WSET 3 (or other in-person) exams have been postponed/cancelled for the umpteenth time, due to the local, ever-changing landscape of COVID lockdowns, or there's the frustrating fact of how to get together for a tasting group, when no wine bar is open...the list of frustrations and hindrances goes on. I have a question regarding alcohol level - is it deemed 'high' already at 14% or just from anywhere above it? And then the tricky part: time and time again during my course, when we collectively found a wine to have 'high' for alcohol and then the label revealed 13.5 or just 14 %, the instructors would wave it off in a 'yeah, right' fashion, as if to imply places like Italy, Spain, most of France 'you can't trust' with that, ie it's really 14/14.5/15 %, and they are just stating it otherwise to avoid higher excise duties and so on. If such comes up in the tasting exam, the proctor puts 'high' in their tasting notes and the WSET sees 13.5 ABV on the bottle, how is that scored? Thanks ever so much.

@chunlizzz7467 4 жыл бұрын

Many useful tips, thanks Jimmy. Question at 13:23 "if it's a 5,6, or 7 it definitely will be a simple style" - are these numbers the marks available for the question? Don't remember we had to check for simplicity while doing the courses a few years back - I suppose it's a new criteria?

@tobydylan93 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jimmy!

@WineWithJimmy 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@alexvonschirmeister1976 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos are extremely useful Jimmy. I have done amazing wine tasting evenings at your West London Wine School before (the Domaine Huet from Vouvray one for example, which was spectacular), but now I really wish I had prepared the WSET3 with you as well! One question I do have on the Tasting exam part: Do we write the answers on completely white sheets of paper, or does the exam paper already offer the appearance / nose / palate / conclusion templates with the factors, and we just need to fill in for example, the right level of acidity?

@WineWithJimmy 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Alex - ah amazing you shared in the Huet experience :-) For the tasting exam you will have to populate boxes headed 'appearance - 2 marks' 'nose - 7 marks' and so on. You will need to remember the SAT approach to populate those boxes

@reminatog 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Jimmy, thank you for the videos, they are so helpful! I had to follow an online course, since COVID regulations did not allow it to be in class, and did not get the chance to do tastings with my tutor. Therefore I did not get familiar with the B-L-I-C or with the concept of simplicity, could you elaborate on those? Thank you again. Helena

@WineWithJimmy 3 жыл бұрын

Best thing is to join on one of my online tasting sessions at www.westlondonwineschool.com

@markcraig6874 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Jimmy, great channel and thanks for all the useful tips. For the lvl 3 blind tasting exam I know they removed sparkling wines, but are fully sweet dessert wines still testable? The Specification just reads “any principal still wine” so didn’t know if that would also include fully sweet and/or fortified wines. Thanks!

@WineWithJimmy 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Mark - yes a sweet wine is possible as the white wine. No fortified wines.

@markcraig5651 3 жыл бұрын

@@WineWithJimmy thanks Jimmy! I used your channel a lot for class prep. Unfortunately I think I got Sauternes or something similar as my white wine and wasn’t very prepared for it. To make matters worse I tasted it before the red wine and had so much sugar on my palate I really struggled with that one as well. Hopefully I passed the theory at least! Thanks for your help with all the great videos.

@christine5335 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Jimmy. Is there a particular wine or style of wine you would recommend for acclimatising our palates before the exam?

@WineWithJimmy 3 жыл бұрын

I would suggest something that would deliver some tannin, acidity and alcohol - it is just to get your palate used to wine so it isn't in shock when in the tasting. Even if its a Beaujolais or Rioja etc