A practical resource designed to support your WSET Spirits journey. Whether you’re working through Level 2 or tackling the more advanced Level 3, these notes break down key categories, production methods, and tasting frameworks in a way that’s easy to follow and remember.

When you taste a Scotch whisky, you might think all the magic happens in the stills or the casks. But there’s another part of the distillation process that quietly shapes every drop in your glass: the condenser.

As the famous Irish poet W.B. Yeats might say, the drink in that glass is changing, and it's changing a lot. In the past, some whiskey experts didn't take Irish whiskey very seriously.

Start getting familiar with essential whisky vocabulary.

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How did we as human beings invent whiskey?

It all begins with an idea.