Independent Wine Education Guild

• Increased collaboration with our current and new sponsors and trade partners, which will allow us to provide more scholarships and additional exclusive learning opportunities through unique Signature Series Master Classes, led by industry-renowned IWEG educators
   
• Launch of new courses and programs - we are honoured to be the first wine, spirits and sake school in Canada to offer the Wines Of Chile Academy Ambassador certification. We are also introducing new distance learning offerings for WSET Level 1 Award in Wines and WSET Level 1 Award in Spirits and are very excited to launch the Spanish Wine Scholar study and certification program as soon as it becomes available
   
• Greater frequency and formats of our courses to provide convenience and flexibility of study for our students, including in-class or online study, day or evening classes, and condensed or less intensive formats as well as custom corporate programming
   
• Investment in WSET Diploma faculty and development of our WSET Diploma program - elevate the course to a world-class student experience directly impacting academic outcomes, as well as providing greater career opportunities through the launch of “Diploma Career Networking” evenings at the school

Are you a WSET Diploma student at IWEG? Join our Facebook Group! This group is for you to share resources, questions, connect and keep up with the industry. IWEG will be posting industry events and useful resources to the group. Please feel free to share your own tips and updates. Click here to join the group.

WSET has also created a Facebook group for the global alumni community to connect and share ideas. Click here to join the group.

WSET Diploma almuna Kim Berdusco recently visited the new wine and spirits shop in London's luxury department store Harrods and met a fellow IWEG student! Stéphane Salmon completed part of his WSET Diploma studies with IWEG in 2013. 

July Social Media Contest Winner
Congratulations to Rebecca Pettigrew for winning this month's social media contest! Here is Rebecca's winning post from her studies with the WSET Diploma.

Social Media Contest 
We encourage you to share any photos, videos or messages about your IWEG experience in and out of the classroom on your social media! Tag us in your next social media post for a chance to win tickets to upcoming tastings and other special prizes. Each post will be entered into a monthly draw. Winners will be notified and featured in our monthly newsletters.

Be sure to include one of our social media handles in your post:

IWEG's social media handles:
Twitter: IWEG_Canada 
Facebook: IWEG Drinks Academy
Instagram: IWEG_Canada
Hashtags: #iweg and #iweg40

Student and Instructor Photos 
Do you have any photos of your experience at IWEG? We want to share them on our social media channels and in our newsletters. Send any photos to marketing@iweg.org.

News
Penfolds to make Napa Valley wine and Champagne - Decanter (07/03/2018)
We’re on the hunt for pét-nat, one of the most trendy and elusive styles of wine in Ontario right now - Toronto Life (06/21/2018)
It’s not what’s in the glass of sake, it’s the glass itself - Japan Times (06/09/2018)

Events
Monday, July 16th @ IWEG Drinks Academy: Wines of Chile Academy Ambassador Level Certification at 6:30PM - 9:30PM. Wines of Chile Academy has been created by Wines of Chile to offer structured courses to trade professionals and wine enthusiasts. A Certificate of Recognition as a Wines of Chile Academy Ambassador will be issued upon successful completion of a three and a half hour course (including final assessment). Taught by authorized Wines of Chile Educator and IWEG's WSET Diploma coordinator Peter Wearing, DipWSET. Sign up now!

Thank you to our partners for supporting IWEG's educational programming. For a full list of our partners, visit here.