wset

by kendal.montgomery@gmail.com|01 October 202201 October 2022|#dipWSETjourney, For the Winos

The sweetness you feel in any wine, sparkling or still, is a result of sugar that didn’t fully convert to alcohol during fermentation or sugar added post-fermentation. In sparkling wine, we refer to any added sugar as dosage. Understanding residual...

Ditch Your Veuves and Get Into Grower Champagnes

by kendal.montgomery@gmail.com|07 September 202207 September 2022|#dipWSETjourney, For the Winos

Purple Mouthed Tip: For the same price — often less — you’re going to find a much more exciting bottle, one that doesn’t ride on the price of making you a sheep, rather hard work and place. So ditch your...

WSET D4 – The Sparkling Wine Takeover

by kendal.montgomery@gmail.com|03 September 202204 September 2022|#dipWSETjourney, For the Winos

Though I'm as bubble-mouthed as I am purpled, this portion of the diploma program has me on edge. I've fizzed well for years now, but never with the focus I've applied to still wines…bubbles are what got us through all...

My Rhôneissance

by kendal.montgomery@gmail.com|19 November 202119 November 2021|#dipWSETjourney, For the Winos, Purple Hearted

So I’m in whole a Rhôneissance thing right now. The Côte-Rôtie, Cornas, Gigondas, the big Pape-A…All things considered, at least the #WSETDiploma program has given me that, because prior to, I never knew about these outstanding wines that are so...

Welcome to My #DIPWSET Journey

by kendal.montgomery@gmail.com|23 September 202123 September 2021|Uncategorized

And it’s official, my WSET Diploma studies are underway once more! This week I began what will be the most intense, most difficult course of my wine life to date: D3 - Wines of the World. Spanning over nine months with weekly...