LAW School

A solid foundation in wine education improves your quality of life!   LearnAboutWine School spreads the course load out over 5+ weeks with a healthy balance of book study and organized tastings. The goal, to achieve world wine competency, and preparing for/passing a multi-week program and credential exam. Students who have completed the structured outline on the curriculum have achieved a 95% success rate and passed the BAR EXAM (Beverage Aptitude Review). Additionally, our students have continued on to pass the CSW, WSET Level 3 and 4, many have gone on to become wine authorities, authors, and captains of industry. Join us for LAW SCHOOL! A fun name, but a very serious wine program....your parents will be so proud. 

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Since 1995, LearnAboutWine has provided elevated wine education programs to the City of Los Angeles. Through the years, this  program continues to be tailored to respond to the growing needs of a more educated wine audience and to provide a quality, credential oriented program for both savvy consumers and the hard working wine professionals.

Those familiar with WSET (click here for WSET programs) understand that it teaches you a professional process to taste and discuss wines (b.l.i.c. -  balance, length, intensity and complexity).  While our JWE program supports a similar, repeatable approach, unlike WSET, it also reinforces the tasting with a detailed discussion about the wines.In general we taste 2-3X the number of wines as a WSET level 2 program and provide additional time for commentary, as WSET 2 is only a 3 week program.  The JWE program goes deeper than Level 2 and is very much a preparatory for the WSET level 3 experience.LAW SCHOOL has now extended the JWE program to include 5 tasting dates plus 2 remote sessions and a private student take home exam.

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    DATES [HYBRID: PART ZOOM/PART LIVE]

    Class One: REMOTE - A one hour group meeting online.  We discuss the program, and assign homework (wine buying projects).  

    Class Two: Tasting One - New World Whites and Reds (USA, Argentina, Australia, Chile, New Zealand) 

    Class Three: France 

    Class Four: Italy 

    Class Five: Spain, Germany, Austria, Sparkling and Dessert 

    Class Six: REMOTE - We prepare for the difficult but very passable exam.  The exam comes from the book and tasting sessions.  The Beverage Aptitude Review - AKA "The BAR Exam" 

    Prerequisites

    While little wine knowledge is required to start, we will ask that you have completed our Wine Camp program prior to beginning LAW SCHOOL.  Additionally, reading the materials prior to each week's program is necessary to keep up with this program.  Those with less knowledge will want to read ahead prior to the start of the program. We will provide a detailed path. All students must be registered for this program 10 days prior to its first session.  

    Class Includes

    - Hands-on tasting and instruction
    - An introduction and exploration of tasting skills as we discuss 12 key wines per week x 5 weeks (approx 60 wines) 
    - Each student participates in our wine purchasing project (each student buys 3 bottles that are assigned on week one as a homework project).  Our wine school provides additional wines to support the needs of this comprehensive class.   
    - Weekly Wine Quizzes    
    - Varietal descriptions  
    - Wine laws and history, pulled from our selected text book.
    - A Credential Exam (The Beverage Aptitude Review), J.W.E. Credential Certification awarded upon successful completion.
    - Successful Certification includes: Wall Certificate, J.W.E. Credentials and a handsome lapel pin to tell the world of your accomplishments. 

    Required Materials

    NO PRIOR WINE KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED; WE HAVE A CURRICULUM TO GET STARTED NOW.

    Textbook: Culinary Institute of America’s Exploring Wine textbook, 3rd Edition(You may purchase this from us - and we can have it delivered or you may source your own copy of the current edition from Amazon).
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    NOTE:  At any time, this book may move to a new edition. The 3rd Edition will be the source for all our quizzes and the final exam for this session.  The answers are inside the book.  Any answers found on Google or other reference will not usurp the answers found in this time tested guide. 

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    About

    The Junior Wine Executive (J.W.E.) credential includes a wall certificate, and recognized credentials that are helpful in the application process for future wine industry job placement; or just to impress and educate your family and friends around the dinner table. Perhaps best of all, you’ll be in the upper 10% in wine knowledge and comfortably conversational in wine at all future work and social occasions.... prepare to have the wine list handed in your direction.