Sign Up Early with IWEG and Save

To help you achieve your 2024 goals, IWEG is offering a special promotion of early bird rates for the first 50 new registrants for 2024 WSET and Wine Scholar Guild courses!

Use the code early24 at checkout to receive 10 per cent off eligible courses! This special offer is effective November 23rd and will run until January 2nd. The promotion is not retroactive to existing registrations prior to this date.

WSET Diploma in-class and online courses are not included in this offer.

The Académie du Vin Library: Black Friday Offer

The Académie du Vin Library is kicking off the shopping season with 30 per cent off almost their entire collection. Whether you’re shopping for a wine-loving friend, or stocking your own shelves for the winter, now is the time!

Use promo code BLACK30 at checkout to get 30 per cent off* your purchase. This offer is only valid until 27th November.

*offer not valid on The South America Wine Guide and Steven Spurrier’s Académie du Vin Wine Course.

Rum Styles, Histories and Traditions

Rum is a spirit category too often derided. Tropes such as ‘rum is always sweet’, ‘rum is just for cocktails’ or ‘rum has no rules’ still plague online articles, retail messages and, by association, the consumer mind-set.

In truth, rum is a diverse category as any other, arguably more so, a point made regularly by rum experts around the world, such as Matt Pietrek, author of Cocktail Wonk and Modern Caribbean Rum. Read on.