WSET Level 3 Award in Spirits Online

This advanced spirits course is ideal for professionals working in the spirits industry as well as serious spirits enthusiasts.

Your training: 9 weeks of training online. Your exam: it can only be taken in person (Paris or Marseille). For each session, we offer a 6-month schedule of exam dates so you can choose the one that fits best depending on your progress and personal study. Registrations will close 10 working days before the start of a session.

Unit 1 • Principles of spirits production • Understand the key characteristics and labelling terms of: - Grain spirits and Asian Spirits - Fruit Spirits - Sugar Cane Spirits - Agave Spirits - Vodka & Gin - Flavoured spirits and aromatised wines Unit 2 • How to taste spirits and evaluate quality using the WSET Level 3 Systematic Approach to Tasting Spirits® (SAT)

For Unit 1, you will need to answer 50 multiple-choice questions and four short-answer questions in 2 hours. For Unit 2, you will perform a blind tasting of two spirits and be asked to describe the spirits and analyse their quality in 30 minutes. To graduate, you must answer 55% of the questions correctly in each unit. You will receive your result by email about 8 weeks after your exam date. Your certificate and pin will then be mailed to you. You can retake one or both of the units if you did not pass, for a fee of 170 euros for each unit. Our students have a pass rate of  100% for the theory unit and 100% for the tasting unit for Level 3.

You must be 18 years old to register. Having obtained the WSET 2 Award in Spirits or being able to prove an equivalent level of knowledge is strongly suggested in order to succeed in this training. Excellent comprehension and writing skills in the selected language are also recommended to follow the training. Our trainings are accessible to disabled persons. If you have a disability or require special adaptations that fall within our scope of action, please contact us at [email protected]. We will study together the best possible solution. By registering, you acknowledge having read and accepted our general conditions of sale and internal rules.

Participants rated their overall satisfaction at  5/5 in 2025.

Here’s how it works: You get full access to the official WSET online learning platform for 9 weeks. There are no live classes or fixed schedule — you can log in whenever suits you, and each week introduces a new topic through videos, exercises, quizzes and flashcards to help the content stick. You’ll also have access to an international forum moderated by your tutor, where you can interact with other students and ask questions along the way. You’ll also receive your ebook, so you can keep it and refer back to it whenever you need. Once you start, you have a full year of access to the platform, so you can revisit the content whenever you like, well beyond the 9-week programme. WSET exam You have 6 months after finishing the course to sit your WSET exam. It must be taken in person, in Paris or Marseille.