amateur de vin: a lover of wine

For many sitting the 2026 MW exams, yesterday was a day of reckoning -- the MW released the full list of wines and questions (which you can view here). For the two years I have sat this exam, I would record my answers, or as much as I could remember, in a notebook afterwards so that I could check myself once the wines were announced. An important thing to remember is that correct identification of the wines is not the be all, end all of this exam -- a lot of points can be all

It has been just over a month since I sat the MW exam, so I've had some time to process, take a break, and think about next steps. As...