The Doomed Quest For The MW

  The last tasting exam can either be a favorite of students or the most dreaded depending on your interest and familiarity with wine styles almost no one on the planet drinks.  The last tasting exam can cover some mainstream wine styles like Champagne and rose, but you could also get poured a late harvest South African wine, a vin santo, fortified muscat, weird ass sherries or madeiras.  Had an Antique Rutherglen lately?  I have.  I generally do pretty well on this part of the exam.  I had embraced fortified wines when I was in WSET Diploma because I’d never heard of most of the styles and it was a “wait, they do what?” element to discovering the wines.  They are usually very high quality for relatively low prices because there is almost no market for sweet high alcohol wines in 2025.  If you get lucky with the wines, it can be a straightforward tasting.  The main wines in this exam SHOULD be sparkling, rose, port, sherry and madeira but tha...