The Wine Academy was formed 10 years ago, as the Northern Wine Academy as a wine school to teach a local wine merchant's staff about wines and spirits.
Since then it has grown in size and reputation by word of mouth and personal recommendation, and is now one of the biggest wine education companies in the country, more students sucessfully complete studies at our wine school than at any other Wines & Spirit training provider in the North of England..
2008 saw the company expand out of it’s Yorkshire heartland to open a satellite wine school in Bordeaux, again driven by a request from a French Agricultural College for Karen Hardwick, Director, to teach their mainly French and Chinese winemaking students about New World wines.
September 2010 saw The Wine Academy back in France hosting a winemaking course in Provence for budding winemakers from Yorkshire.
Our small, teaching team are all ‘WSET Certified Educators’ i.e. the highest level of wine educator approved by the Wine and Spirit Education Trust and all have extensive experience in the wine and spirits industry as well as an infectious enthusiasm for their subject. It is this enthusiasm as experience which led to our making the final 8 of the WSET International Wine Educators of the Year in 2008. One of only 3 companies in the U.K. to make the final.
You can enjoy The Wine Academy experience on a formal WSET exam course where you work towards a wine and spirits qualification, on an informal food and wine event on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month in Harrogate and York respectively, on a private event for your group or company or at the annual York Festival of Food and Drink.
WSET Courses
Current course available:
• WSET Foundation
• WSET Intermediate
• WSET Advanced
• Self Study Courses
Forthcoming Events
• 'First Thursday'
Food & Wine Evenings
• 'Third Thursday'
Food & Wine Evenings
Where we are
The Wine Academy
has training centres in
• Harrogate
• York
• Leeds
