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Nov 3, 2026
Joanne CloseHOST
Hi, Wine Friend.
Joanne CloseHOST
If you have any questions for me about WSET classes, trips, or just need some advice on where to go next, send me an email, joanne at wineeducate.com, J-O-A-N-N-E. It's me, and I look forward to chatting with you.
Joanne CloseHOST
Hello and welcome to the Wine Educate podcast.
Joanne CloseHOST
This is episode 136.
Giulia AventuratoHOST
Susan is a curious and enthusiastic student of grapes, regions, and culture.
Giulia AventuratoHOST
She holds the WSET Level 3 certification and it is credited by the Vinitaly International Academy as an Italian wine ambassador.
Giulia AventuratoHOST
She has also earned the Italian Wine Scholar credential and recently passed the Spanish Wine Essentials exam.
Giulia AventuratoHOST
She sees every grape as an invitation to learn and every bottle as a chance to connect.
Janice SnowdenGUEST
Uh, when advocacy roles start coming back up and hiring and I want to make myself indispensable.
Janice SnowdenGUEST
So like got into my GCD, got into my, uh, WSET.
Janice SnowdenGUEST
Sorry.
Janice SnowdenGUEST
And, um, WSET in spirit.
Janice SnowdenGUEST
So I, uh, attempted in the april of 2021 i sat through my first level three in spirits course uh shout out to lovely hannah lanphier and rose brookman um great educators oh my god i don't know what i would do without those women um but then i got a very big job offer in the may of 2021 i got offered the jameson uk ambassador role
NatHOST
okay
John SzaboGUEST
So I sort of moved out of that.
John SzaboGUEST
I had done WSET diploma.
John SzaboGUEST
In the meantime, I started the MS program and the NW program, ended up passing the MS in 2004, and then got into wine writing, wrote some articles, mostly for free at the beginning, as one had to do in the day, and one probably still does today, just to get your foot in the door, and then ended up getting hired by a magazine, which was then bought out by Wine & Line, and here I am 25 years later.
John SzaboGUEST
That's
Laurie ForsterHOST
Earlier this year, I had one of your partners, Karen McNeil, here to talk about Share and Pair Sundays, but I'm super excited to have you to talk about Come Over October.
Laurie ForsterHOST
But I thought you have such a fascinating background of experience in the wine industry, the diploma with the Wine and Spirits Education Trust.
Laurie ForsterHOST
How did you get involved with wine to begin with?
Kimberly CharlesGUEST
Well, it's interesting.
Janet HelouGUEST
And, It just, the whole category was lacking in good non-alcoholic options.
Janet HelouGUEST
And so that's when I sort of serendipitously met Jane and we had this shared bond of like, you know, why hasn't somebody cracked the code? And so with the food science background that I have, as well as I've taken obviously these WSET, like sommelier courses in wine education, And so it just was a perfect fit.
Janet HelouGUEST
And so now, basically, as Jane said, eight months or so later, I hopped on the team.
Janet HelouGUEST
I formulated Glimmer to something that we're really proud of, something that it's finally a wine that's balanced.
Caroline FazeliGUEST
And then I stayed in London after my studies, and I did my Cordon Bleu diploma because I was very interested in cooking at that point.
Caroline FazeliGUEST
And then after that, I worked in the wine industry in London and did my Wine and Spirits Education Trust diploma.
Caroline FazeliGUEST
That was the end of my studies.
Caroline FazeliGUEST
Although I did later join the Master of Wine program.
Gillian LockitchHOST
I enjoyed wine so much that I actually decided to study it.
Gillian LockitchHOST
I completed levels one and two of the Wine and Spirit Education Trust Courses, WCET, and wrote a travel blog about the experience for my travel and lifestyle website, reviewfromthehouse.com. That was a long 15 years ago.
Gillian LockitchHOST
Today, my life has changed.
Gillian LockitchHOST
I don't drink alcohol unless on a very special occasion or out for a celebratory dinner when my taste and smell brain centers overcome my rational decision-making not to touch alcohol.
Gillian LockitchHOST
Our body whispers that something has changed.
Gillian LockitchHOST
Or even worse, our body screams that something has changed.
Gillian LockitchHOST
And the question is, are we listening? Fifteen years ago, I signed up for the Wine and Spirit Education Trust, or WSET, Level 2 intensive course.
Gillian LockitchHOST
I had previously taken several basic wine tasting courses, and then I completed the WSET Level 1.
Elizabeth SchneiderHOST
I did some stuff with the Court of Master Sommeliers.
Elizabeth SchneiderHOST
I've never done the WSET, the Wine and Spirits Education Trust.
Elizabeth SchneiderHOST
What do these programs offer to someone who's taking them? Let's talk about what you don't offer.
Elizabeth SchneiderHOST
You do not offer these.
Keith WallaceGUEST
Now everyone has their own names for them.
Keith WallaceGUEST
We just call them one, two, three, four, five, just to make it make sense.
Keith WallaceGUEST
But WSET, they actually teach one through four, and then It is actually the Master of Wine program, the British program, that takes over level five primarily.
Keith WallaceGUEST
That's how I would show it.
Mitch SayersGUEST
So there's two tracks.
Mitch SayersGUEST
There's like the master core of sommeliers and there's WSET.
Mitch SayersGUEST
I think if you're not in the industry, you're probably going to do WSET more because it's less focused on service.
Mitch SayersGUEST
That's what I did.
Mitch SayersGUEST
It's structured pretty in a similar way.
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