Stage one
Senses and vocabulary
Establishing a shared descriptive language and a repeatable tasting sequence.
Education & training
How the programme works
From sensory foundations to the service floor, the programme runs in three connected stages.
Three stages
Sequential, not accelerated
Stage two
Comparison and inference
Using comparative flights to separate styles, and reasoning from evidence toward origin, variety and process.
Stage three
Service and decisions
Handling pairing, cost and live contingencies inside a real service rhythm.
How students are assessed
Assessment has three parts: blind analysis, live service, and a spoken explanation. The weighting deliberately departs from a written-examination model.
- Blind analysis
- Live service execution
- Spoken reasoning