Northern Wine Academy was formed 10 years ago, in response to a request from a local wine merchant for staff training.
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.
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 2008 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
