2026 MW Exam Rearview
Well, I did it. I sat the 2026 Master of Wine exam. I’m not going to sugarcoat it for you. It was a real slog. The fucking thing just keeps going. It’s just day after day after day. It’s exhausting concentrating so hard for four straight days under the pressure of a clock. It was different this time. At the end of day one last year, I felt good about the blind exam, but knew my viticulture paper was not great. That exam last year had me reflecting back to when I wrote this horrible essay when I was doing WSET Diploma. There was a question about Port shippers which I answered something along the lines of “Port shippers ship port in ships as part of the business of sipping port via ships.” I only wrote one essay in that style this year, though unintentionally. In a way, last year it was liberating to fuck up the chance to pass so early on. I knew I could not pass the entire exam, so I was loose and ...
