Wine Foundations
15The fundamentals — how to taste, how to talk about wine, how to pick a bottle without panicking.
BrowseEight short courses on the wine you'll actually drink — from the bottle in your hand to the hill it came from. Pairings, regions, grapes, gifts. Open, free, and the kind of wine education we wish we'd been given at twenty-five.
The fundamentals — how to taste, how to talk about wine, how to pick a bottle without panicking.
BrowseA field guide to the grapes you'll actually meet, from Pinot Noir to Chasselas.
BrowseWhat grows where, and why a Bordeaux tastes nothing like a Valais Pinot — even when both are red.
BrowseWhat wine to pour with raclette, fondue, steak, fish. The questions a dinner table asks first.
BrowseHosting an apéro, throwing a dinner, planning a wedding — how much to buy, what to pour, when.
BrowseGifting wine to people you like, people you owe, and people you barely know.
BrowseHow to find a good bottle in Switzerland — online, in a shop, on a list, on a budget.
BrowseNatural wine, orange wine, Crémant, rosé. The grown-up tour of the corners of the wine world.
Browse"The Sommelia Academy will never be paywalled, gated, or subscribed. We make our money selling wine. We make our case teaching it."
— Moritz Mond, founder