Heartily agree that the WSET course books are the most soul-sucking publications ever! I don’t think I could tolerate another. Such poor pedagogy - the courses really need other methods to bring them to life. Video content? Interviews with wine-makers? Games? I don’t have the Wine Atlas but I do love Karen MacNeil’s Wine Bible - humour and insight, thoroughly useful and entertaining. Will seek out the Atlas next!
Ha! Yes—well, hence the efforts to cobble together video, imagery and other storytelling modes, so please watch this space! The Atlas is drier than Karen but wins you over with common sense, logic and rock-solid visual context, not without a sprinkling of charm and lightly worn learning.
Heartily agree that the WSET course books are the most soul-sucking publications ever! I don’t think I could tolerate another. Such poor pedagogy - the courses really need other methods to bring them to life. Video content? Interviews with wine-makers? Games? I don’t have the Wine Atlas but I do love Karen MacNeil’s Wine Bible - humour and insight, thoroughly useful and entertaining. Will seek out the Atlas next!
Ha! Yes—well, hence the efforts to cobble together video, imagery and other storytelling modes, so please watch this space! The Atlas is drier than Karen but wins you over with common sense, logic and rock-solid visual context, not without a sprinkling of charm and lightly worn learning.