Online Class: WSET Spirits Level 3 - August 4th 2025

Discover the Art & Science of Spirits!

The WSET Level 3 Award in Spirits is an advanced qualification designed for both industry professionals and enthusiasts seeking a comprehensive understanding of spirits from around the world.

Through this course, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of spirit production—from raw material processing to post-distillation techniques—while developing the tasting skills needed to accurately assess and describe spirits. By combining theory with guided tastings, you’ll confidently analyze why spirits look and taste the way they do and what sets them apart.

Get ready for an immersive journey into the world of spirits and distillation!

What you will learn:

Understand the principal factors involved in the production of spirits and how they influence style and quality.

1. Describe how raw materials are processed in spirits production. 
2. Describe the processes used during fermentation, distillation and the post-distillation period in spirits production. 
3. Explain how processes related to raw materials, fermentation, distillation and post-distillation influence the style and quality of spirits.

Understand the key characteristics and labelling terms of the selected global spirits and how legal frameworks and production choices influence their style and quality.

1. Describe the style and quality of the selected global spirits. 
2. Describe the legal framework for the selected global spirits and explain how it can influence their style and quality. 
3. Apply knowledge of production to explain how choices made at any of the four key stages of production influence the style and quality of the selected global spirits.

Understand the key characteristics of other named global spirits, their labelling terms and key production choices that are made.

1. Describe the style typical of the other named global spirits. 
2. State the meaning of legally defined and other commonly used labelling terms. 
3. State the key legally defined and/or optional production choices that are made during the production of the other named global spirits. 

Describe the key characteristics of selected global spirits and use the description to identify a spirit’s quality level, giving supporting reasons, and its category.

1. Describe the key characteristics of the selected global spirits using the
WSET Level 3 Systematic Approach to Tasting Spirits®.
2. Identify the quality level of the spirit, giving supporting reasons, and its category

Click here to download the L3 Spirits Specification

This document has the complete course details, including important details for the exam from WSET.  

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**Please Note: You must be of legal drinking age in BC to attend this class.