WSET Tasting Wine Blind Series with Wine Expert Brian Mitchell (Blind sample #2)

Advanced Sommelier and owner of New England Wine Academy, Brian Mitchell, guides you through the WSET Level 3 wine-tasting format. This "mind-tasting" series is dedicated to helping students calibrate and understand how to taste wines in a blind context while prepping for the Level 3 tasting exam. This material can also be helpful to Level 1 and Level 2 students who may be considering advancing their skills and thinking of moving ahead to the Level 3 course.
Check out the website to see the videos and also access the WSET Systematic Approach to Tasting written notes for each wine.
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[@davidbessey6518]

Great start to your YT channel- but maybe do it on the fly and not look at your notes? Not really a blind tasting eh?

[@B.Mitchell]

David - thanks for the message. When we practice a blind tasting exercise for WSET, MW, or even CMS, there are written notes that would always follow the tasting grid for the respective discipline being studied. In this case the "notes" you are referring to and what I am referring to in the video, is the WSET L3 systematic approach to tasting grid - and at the time of recording the page was in fact blank. I was verbalizing the notes as I would write them, and delivering an example of how an APP such as myself would assess the wines for an exam-level note. When I was studying for advanced-level qualifications, I would often listen to or read other student's blind-tasting notes, and try and formulate a profile of the wine based on the information given. Just another study technique that I found to be quite useful in the identification and description process. Essentially I was "blind-tasting" by visualizing the wine in my mind. These instructional videos are really designed to give my students - many of which are studying remotely - more of an insight into the process of blind tasting and how to better calibrate to my (and WSET's) approach to writing an accurate and passing tasting note. It never really occurred to me that anyone would assume that I was actually tasting blind, but given your feedback, I may do some videos where I am genuinely tasting blind. Stay tuned.

[@davidbessey6518]

@@B.Mitchell Yeah I was just going by the title of your video. I’m a member of CWS and WSET .