Make 2026 THE year.
Take 10% OFF your first 12 months of Tasting Group!
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Make 2026 THE year.
Take 10% OFF your first 12 months of Tasting Group!
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Original price was: $399.00.$199.00Current price is: $199.00.
Stop guessing and start knowing how to identify, describe, and understand wine. Over six live, hands-on weeks, you’ll build a clear, repeatable process, AND the confidence to use it when you dive into your next blind tasting!
We’ll taste through a highly curated 12-bottle case together, learning how to turn aroma, fruit, structure, ripeness and winemaking clues into logical deductions you can actually defend. (Wine purchased separately, details below.)
Bootcamp begins on November 2! This is the very first cohort, and I’m keeping it small at just 12 people. As a thank-you to the folks who are willing to be the first ones through it with me, the founding cohort is $199. Future cohorts will be priced differently.
This bootcamp is ideal for roughly mid-level exam students or equivalent, i.e. CMS Certified, WSET 3.
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This is a virtual course, so there is no delivery for tuition and course access itself. Wine will be delivered in accordance with our partner’s guidelines, and information will be provided once you purchase your wine. You MUST purchase the wine to participate in this course. A link to purchase the wine will be sent to you no later than Friday, October 9. Wine must be ordered by October 19!
We guarantee our education and coaching! But if you don’t believe you have become a better wine taster after having gone through this course, we will happily provide you a refund for your tuition. Wine returns and refunds are handled in accordance with our partner’s policies directly with them.
We stand behind every product we create — built to delight, educate, and inspire! Shipped with care and speed, and backed by our promise to make things right if ever needed.
6 weekly 90 minute live virtual sessions, starting November 2
12 specially curated bottles of wine, pre-wrapped & labeled for blind tasting (separate purchase required, more info below)
12 RePour wine savers so your wine lasts the entirety of the course
Complete Tasting Framework (Beginner / Digital) so you can start building your own library of tasting notes
4 free months of Tasting Group once the course concludes so you can keep practicing
Special founders discount - half price for being part of our first session, save $200 and help influence future bootcamps!
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Train your nose to assess aromatic intensity, recognize aroma families and use what you smell as meaningful evidence, not just a list of descriptors.
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Taste side by side to separate fruit from winemaking influence and learn how weight, texture and oak can narrow the possibilities.
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Move beyond aroma as you actively evaluate color, fruit, acidity, tannin, body and alcohol, and learn how these clues work together.
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Experience how ripeness, alcohol, acidity, tannin and spice reveal where a wine may have come from, and stop letting “big red” be the answer.
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Learn to recognize development in the glass, identify savory and earthy characteristics, and combine multiple clues into a confident deduction.
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Put the entire system to work in a timed blind tasting, explain and defend your conclusion, then reveal, review and sharpen your process through live feedback and Q&A.
Attendance at all 6 classes is required. Life happens, we'll give you grace, but this course is designed specifically for live interaction. Participation is extremely important to receiving and practicing the hands on instruction that will help you develop these skills.
Wine purchase is required to participate in this course. This is not theoretical. You'll be learning and practicing real blind tasting skills using the exact same wines as everyone else so we can have better conversations and learn more about our own palates. More details below.
This course is currently only available if your wine is being delivered to a qualified state. Please check the chart here to make sure you can receive the wine.
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Purchased separately from our partner. Purchase link will be emailed to you!
Yes. This is a hands-on, interactive course. When it comes to wine, comparative tasting is key. Not only with the wines in front of you, but with the perceptions of your peers. Discussion and participation is essential for practicing and improving these skills. You can get theory from books and blogs, but that's not what this course is for!
It varies by how far you live from Columbus, Ohio. Typically it's between $20 and $50. Your actual price will be calculated on our partner's website when you go to check out.
Great to know! Send me an email at kendeigh@thegrapegrind.com and let me know!
In exchange for this significant discount for this course, we're honestly expecting you to be there for these lessons. That said, we understand life happens and if you have an emergency, no worries. Just let us know in advance, if possible.
No later than October 9th, possibly sooner. You will have until October 19 to make your purchase. Failing to purchase in time may result in not being able to attend this course, in which case your tuition will be refunded.
The Grape Grind is not licensed to sell alcohol. We leave that to our amazing partners who take care of that for us so that we can focus on delivering world class education and training!
This is an intermediate level course. If you are just getting started in the wine world, this course is likely too advanced. Similarly, if you are relatively advanced, such as WSET Diploma, this is probably not be for you. Questions? Just send me a message at kendeigh@thegrapegrind.com.
Why full-size bottles instead of mini bottles?
Because you’re not just tasting these wines once and moving on.
The cost of the 12 full-size bottles is roughly the same as what 12 mini bottles would cost once you factor in the extra packaging and handling. But full-size bottles give us something minis can’t: the ability to come back to the same wine.
Each bottle comes with a RePour wine saver, which means you can preserve the wine and revisit it throughout the bootcamp. In fact, each bottle can be used 2–4 times during the six weeks.
That repeat tasting is intentional. Building blind tasting skills isn’t about tasting a wine once, getting the answer, and forgetting it. You need to be able to come back to a wine, notice something you missed the first time, compare it with another wine, and build on what you already learned.
So instead of 12 wines that you taste once, you have a small library of wines you can keep working with throughout the entire bootcamp.
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