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See the 13 new Masters of Wine and titles to their research papers

From comparative study on winter vine burial in China to consumer's attitude towards wine in India, find out what topics have the new MWs chosen for their final research papers.

Richard Ballantyne MW (UK)

Richard is UK accounts manager for Vinexus, a specialist importer of Italian wines.

He’s ‘hooked’ in Nebbiolo and so unsurprisingly did his research paper on:

Research paper: ‘Barolo – Is there an economic benefit in producing under a Cru Label Designation? If there is, what are the reasons?’

Bree Boskov MW (Australia)

Bree was born in Australia and originally trained as a sommelier. She has worked in wine all over the world.

She is currently North American market manager for Equilibrio Wines, which has a boutique Australian, Portuguese and South African portfolio.

Research paper: Prospects for Australian luxury wine growth among importers in key US markets.

Barbara Boyle MW (Ireland)

Barbara lives and works in Dublin and is a trained chartered accountant and tax consultant. She edited the ‘best of wine in Ireland’ guide for two years.

Research paper: What is the effect of serving temperature on the sensory attributes of Tawny Port and Ruby Port?

Matt Deller MW (USA)

Matt is director of fine wine development for Constellation Brands, owner of Robert Mondavi wines and one of the world’s largest wine companies. He lives in San Francisco.

Research paper: Coravin wine by the glass programs in the US restaurant market: effectiveness, functionality and marketing best practice.

Matthew Forster MW (UK)

Matthew is director of WSET Awards, having previously worked for Berry Bros & Rudd. He is also a trained solicitor.

Research paper:‘New’ vintage Madeira: the role of colheita and frasqueira classifications in Madeira production.

Sonal Holland MW (India)

Sonal is India’s first MW, according to the Institute. She has founded SOHO wine club and her namesake institute offers WSET-accredited wine training.

Sonal holds a Diploma in Hotel Management from the Institute of Hotel Management Dadar in Mumbai, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Mumbai University.

Research paper: Awareness, attitude and usage of wine among SEC A urban Indian wine consumers.

Jeremy Lithgow MW (UK)

Jeremy is sales director at Charles Taylor Wines and has worked in wine since 1995. He previously managed the Harrods wine department.

Research paper: To what extent can the white wines of Saint-Aubin compete with the village-level white wines of Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet in the London independent wine retail sector?

Mary Margaret McCamic MW (USA)

Mary Margaret is sales manager for Screaming Eagle in California. She has an MA in teaching but transferred to the wine trade with a job in the wine department of Balthazar in New York.

Research paper: An investigation into the exceptions for wine in the Volstead Act: What impact did these exceptions have on grape growing and wine production in Napa Valley during US Prohibition?

Iain Munson MW (France)

Iain studied oenology at the University of Montpellier in Languedoc-Roussillon. He worked in the region and eventually joined JeanJean, where he now looks after the laboratory and wine quality. JeanJean is now part of the AdVini group.

Research Paper: Investigation into the increased sales of Picpoul de Pinet in the UK on and off trade between 2010-2015.

Mick O’Connell MW (Ireland)

Mick was a judge in the Decanter World Wine Awards 2016 and has been combining passions for wine and music for several years.

He makes a garage wine in Sardinia with his wife and works in Ireland alongside Barbara Boyle MW, another new MW, at the Wine Mason importer.

Research paper: An investigation into the attitudes of UK independent wine merchants towards the wines of Sardinia.

Mark Pygott MW (Taiwan)

Mark lives in Taiwan, promoting wine culture and educating wine enthusiasts. He moved there after selling his UK import business focuses on lesser known regions of France and Spain.

He was previously assistant winemaker at Domaine Montrose in Languedoc.

Research paper: Has climate change occurred in the Barossa Valley over the last 50 years and if so, how have vine growers adapted to any changes.

Ana-Emilia Sapungiu MW (UK)

Ana-Emilia is the wine buyer at Oddbins Wine Merchants. She started working in wine after moving to the UK from Romania to study an MBA.

She joined the Oddbins management trainee programme. She was a Decanter World Wine Awards 2016 judge.

Research Paper: What is the current and future role of wine agencies in the UK multiple off trade?

Fongyee Walker MW (China)

Fongyee has been a columnist on DecanterChina since 2015.

She became interested in wine at the University of Cambridge whilst studying classical Chinese. She went on to head the university’s blind wine tasting team.

She is now co-owner of Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting and works as a wine educator and consultant in both English and Mandarin. She is based in Beijing.

Research paper: ‘Winter Vine Burial in Ningxia, Shanxi and Hebei: a comparative study of present conditions and future sustainability.’

It is notoriously difficult to pass the three MW exams set by the Institute of Masters of Wine.

The tests include a practical tasting exam, a theory test and a final, essay module.

Students can choose an area of interest for the essay module, as long as there is a wine angle.

· Breaking down the Masters of Wine Stage 1 tasting exam

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Study Tips from 3 New Masters of Wine

How these global MWs successfully crossed the finish line on one of the wine industry’s most significant achievements

written by Jill Barth

published December 19, 2022

Fewer than 500 people have passed the Master of Wine exam since its inception in 1953. Those that have achieved the title are considered to have a deep understanding of wine, and on top of that, be experts in communicating their knowledge. The test is known to be one of the most challenging, not only in the wine world, but in comparison to qualifiers in other industries as well. 

SevenFifty Daily spoke with three of the newest Masters of Wine, who passed the test in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and were recently officially welcomed into the Institute of Masters of Wine (IMW). Here, they share their tips for balancing study and daily life, their most reliable learning tools, and the best advice they received ahead of the exams.

Pasi Ketolainen, MW; Finland (passed in 2020)

Pasi Ketolainen is a wine trade professional who has served in several commercial and brand management positions since 2001, including as a founding partner and board member of one the largest wine-focused importers in Finland. After his MBA studies, in 2019 he began working for importer Viinitie as the commercial director, and he’s served as a partner since 2021. Ketolainen has held several investor and advisory roles in other start-ups, mainly in the health and education sectors. 

Can you describe your study plan and how you fit it into your schedule? 

I studied mainly from 2005 to 2008. This was quite a busy time, as we had our first house built in 2004, and our two oldest kids were born in 2005 and 2007, plus the company in which I was a founding member started in summer 2006. I am very grateful for the support of my wife and family which made the studies possible.

At the time we were six students from Finland (three finally graduated), which made it possible to have weekly tasting training. We were heavily supported by the trade, which provided and occasionally organized the weekly tasting based on earlier MW exam tasks.

For the theory part, I studied individually, mainly in the early mornings before work. I prepared for examinations with one other student by practicing time management and responses to earlier year exam questions. I was also very lucky to have very supportive and active mentors (Patricia Sefanowicz, MW, Ulf Sjödin, MW, and Juliet Bruce Jones, MW) from IMW, which was a great help in all stages of studies.

I participated in all official international education seminars, but did not visit London for any other purpose except exams. Many work-related winery visits and active information gathering from the wineries helped me to widen my understanding of topics. Communication with the other MW students, especially with other Scandinavians, was also very helpful.

After taking several years away from the exam process, in 2018 I decided to finish my dissertation after graduating from the MBA program at the University of Northampton with an academic achievement award. I wrote my research paper while working in my current position, and it was finally approved after some correction rounds in February 2020.

What resources or technological aids would you suggest for people to have during the MW study process?

The world and the program have changed so much since my studies, so I am not sure if the current students should really pay much attention to practices I followed. Nevertheless, it is crucial to resolutely plan the study process and implement the plan made by eliminating irrelevant disturbances.

A holistic view and mood boards of relevant topics, academic interest, and a curiosity to understand all and possibly completely different views of relevant topics is crucial. Gathering examples of practices and evidence to support those is very important. I would also encourage actively searching for exceptions and evaluating the different views to respond—especially to the question why more than how .

The internet and different databases are so full of information, often interest biased, so it is extremely crucial to critically evaluate the relevance of the content. Some of the most useful educational events I found were the panel conversations of several professionals highlighting the different views of discussed topics. Many such events were organized by IMW and those were always very professional and educational. 

What was the best piece of exam prep advice you got from a mentor or friend?

I practiced the theory exam responses with another Finnish MW student, reviewing past year examples. We used only 15 minutes to create a plan, starting and summarizing the finishing paragraph for past exam questions. Then we used a sharp 40 minutes to evaluate each other’s work, debate the essay plans made, and make notes of the topics we considered to be in need of more knowledge. These sessions normally included four to eight topics and were extremely helpful to broaden my view and detect any lack of knowledge.

Also, there was great practical debate and preparation support from other Finnish MW students for tasting, and the success of passing the tasting part was high among the Finns.

What did you find most challenging about the exam?

As I had a background in endurance sports and an army education, the physical and psychological pressures did not feel overwhelming. Biology was not high in my interest, therefore learning all the viruses and pests related to viticulture was tough, but during studies I got very interested in the chemistry of winemaking due to an excellent book by David Bird, MW .

As I had stopped my voluntary studies of English in high school, my major concern was language and fluency of writing, which I decided to do in English and not have translated from Finnish.

What did you do to help keep the process enjoyable and let off steam?

Collaboration and support with other students was extremely important. The baby, kids, and loving family played a massive role in releasing the pressure and taking my thoughts towards more important things in life. I had a broad circle of friends and understanding work colleagues, who allowed me to take the time I needed for studies. Sports have always been an important part of my life, so good physical condition also helped me to stay tuned and motivated for reaching the goal. Healthy and tasty gastronomic adventures and occasional family travels to discover the beauty of the world also brought useful appreciation and happiness.

I might have a rather spartan, resolutive attitude and belief of humans not being aware of their full potential, but I don’t remember the study times being very demanding. Or maybe the memories grow sweeter with time.

Sophie Parker-Thomson, MW; New Zealand (passed in 2021)

Sophie Parker-Thomson is a lawyer by training, but lived and breathed wine through her family’s winery and hospitality businesses. She made a return to the wine industry 13 years ago and achieved the Master of Wine qualification in February 2021. She resides in Marlborough, New Zealand, where she is the general manager and co-owner of the small-batch, fine wine venture Blank Canvas , which she owns with her husband, Matt Thomson. Together they’ve been creating wines from exceptional single-vineyard sites in Marlborough, Hawke’s Bay, and Central Otago since 2013. Consulting work takes Parker-Thomson and Thomson to Europe multiple times a year, which gives a genuinely global perspective to their winemaking.

Having a young child throughout my MW studies meant I had to learn to be flexible and adaptable with my study routine and grab any moment I could, typically around daycare or school hours and plenty in the evenings and weekends. I’d generally focus on theory during the day and in the evenings practice blind tasting. In the few months leading up to the exams, the weekends were dedicated to marathon mock tasting exams that my husband Matt would set up for myself and the few other MW and WSET Diploma students in Marlborough. On and off, our tasting group was about three to four in number—small, but better than nothing!

For me, people are the best resource. The most important thing is having a supportive partner and it’s a huge bonus if they have an interest in wine, too. Another fundamental is to have a good tasting group (no matter how big or small) where mutual respect is emphasized—they don’t necessarily need to be an MW student, but they need to be reliable and you need to feel comfortable dissecting wines together, thrashing out why you stuffed up as much as why you got it right!

The Oxford Companion to Wine and The World Atlas of Wine are two key reference books every student of wine should own.

From David Gleave, MW, for the practical exam: just relax and enjoy the wines.  

Probably the psychological aspect of needing to perform at such a high level every day for five days. The Stage 2 exams are really equivalent to an ultra-endurance race so you need to build yourself up to the intensity and stamina required over a matter of months, trying not to peak too early.

Ensuring I prioritized time for family, friends, and fitness. The gym was an important place for letting off steam! Keeping fit physically helped me remain focused and enthused about spending long periods of time at the desk.

Justin Martindale, MW; Scotland (2022 vintage)

Justin Martindale is an educator, consultant, and wine judge based in Edinburgh. He joined the wine trade with Majestic in 2008, following a stint as a classical musician after studying music at Leeds University. In 2013, Martindale established Lothian Wine School in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he now works as the head tutor teaching WSET courses, masterclasses, and bespoke private events, as well as running a consultancy business and judging at international wine competitions.

I was lucky to be self-employed as I was able to create time to study around my work commitments. I took a month off before the theory exam to make sure I had all the examples and technical details learned before sitting. Given the breadth of knowledge required to pass, I had to get a bit creative with my schedule to ensure I’d get over the line—for example, I made voice recordings of some of the key texts so I could listen to them while out for a run or driving to try and minimize those otherwise dead times of my day. I even had rootstock examples printed out and stuck around the kitchen sink for washing-up time!

Often the best resources were my fellow students who were able to help me develop a global perspective on international markets. Podcasts were invaluable to develop knowledge that went beyond textbooks as well as gathering examples, and there are some great Facebook forums that give really good exposure to real-life issues faced in the vineyards and wineries around the world.

I’ve soaked up lots of great advice over the course of the program, but one immediately jumps to mind: Emma Symington, MW, once said in a seminar that you truly have no idea how you did in the exam until you receive your results. I almost gave up hope because I was convinced I’d failed the first tasting paper when I left the room on day one, and without that advice echoing in my ears I may well have given up hope for the other papers that week.

There’s an attritional element to the exam week that is quite difficult. Performing at the standard required to pass for four consecutive days is challenging. It’s really important to be kind to yourself that week and make sure you’re resting properly and ready for the next day’s exams. I’m pretty sure I was in bed by 9 pm every day!

I think setting boundaries for yourself is really crucial. There’s a danger that the MW program becomes all-encompassing if you allow it. The MW program was very important to me, but so were lots of other things in my life, so I had a study plan that enabled me to get where I needed to be to pass, but that didn’t encroach on family time and social events. You’ll probably never feel ready for the MW exam, so it will eat as much of your time as you allow it to!

These interviews have been edited and condensed.

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Lessons Learned on the Road to Mastery: Recollections of a Master of Wine

I will never forget the day I told my parents that I was leaving my job as a high school English teacher to move up to New York City and pursue a full-time career in wine. They were surprised and a little confused. Looking back, I suppose I can understand their response. It was early 2008, and I had been a teacher for less than a year. The year prior, I earned a master’s degree in teaching. My rationale was impossible for them to understand at the time, but anyone who has ever been bitten by the wine bug understands. Wine became an obsession, and I could not imagine a life without being completely immersed in it. Wine encompasses everything, after all. It is a subject where history meets biology, chemistry, geography, business, sociology, and so much more. My hunger for knowledge was insatiable.

I moved to New York City and started working as a cellar rat at Balthazar while waiting tables at Tribeca Grill. I also began taking WSET courses at the International Wine Center.  Mary Ewing-Mulligan , MW, was one of my first teachers. Her enthusiasm was contagious, and I admired how she spoke intelligently about wine so effortlessly, as if her knowledge was innate. With diligent study, I passed Level 2 (Intermediate) and Level 3 (Advanced) within a year, and began studying for the WSET Diploma in late 2009. In 2011, I earned the WSET Diploma.

Though proud of my studies, my parents were still skeptical. I tried to explain to them that plenty of people make a living by way of the wine industry, and that the credentials I earned were more than mere certificates of participation—they reflected a high level of knowledge. I told them they were prerequisites for something called the Master of Wine program, which at the time only had some 300 members globally (there are now 369 MWs around the world, with 45 in the US). When I moved out to California in 2013 and took a job with North Berkeley Imports to specialize in wines from Burgundy, my parents realized that this was becoming more than a young-life crisis. Skepticism transformed into ardent support in my endeavor, even though they weren’t entirely sure what a Master of Wine really was or what it meant to achieve.

In truth, I only understood what the Master of Wine credential really meant when I became one. I passed all parts of the exam on the first attempt, and upon completing my research paper in 2016, I became one of only 16 women to achieve the Master of Wine title in the US. I was the highest overall scorer on all parts of the exam and was awarded the Bollinger Medal for the highest tasting score in my class. (My parents still beam with pride.) I guess that means I learned an awful lot about wine, but I can honestly say that the adage that “the more you learn, the less you know” has never held more meaning in my life. For me, becoming a Master of Wine was so much more than collecting information and successful blind tasting. It taught me how to think critically about the global wine industry. It opened doors to questions I never knew existed. It allowed me to think bigger than I ever thought I could about a subject that has infinite possibilities—and happens to be a whole lot of fun to drink. None of this stopped when I become a Master of Wine. There will always more to learn and know.

For me, the journey to become a Master of Wine started out as one thing and became another. For a while, I was driven by a desire to be the “best” at something. I was a competitive swimmer for most of my life, and I closed out my career in 2006 after four years on the varsity team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Perhaps I was disappointed in my last race, and the pursuit to become an MW was a quest to climb the wine world’s version of Mount Everest. But that desire morphed into something very different as I worked my way through the MW program, met some of the world’s most talented wine professionals, and was exposed to many new ideas. The journey became one of personal discovery and fulfillment. I wanted to become a Master of Wine because I loved how the process expanded my mind.

Though successful on paper, the road to the MW was paved with my own failures. I missed countless wines before I finally got them right. I routinely confused Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, and I once misidentified a Sancerre that was in the portfolio of wines that, at the time, I represented and sold for a living. I struggled to understand concepts in viticulture that seemed second nature to some of my fellow students. Wine exams like the MW push you to your limit both emotionally and intellectually. Funnily enough, I found refuge in studying. I used my failures as fuel to go back and work harder. Whether you pass on the first, second, or sixth attempt, know that part of success is learning from your mistakes and using them to better yourself the next time.

The first few months of being a Master of Wine student come with their own special types of anxieties. Students are given a general syllabus and a mentor, and there are a few course days, but overall, the MW is a self-study program with no single formula for success. I was unsure of how to tackle everything. I stressed over which tasting glasses to use, and how to transport all 12 at a time for mock exams. A residential seminar loomed in the months ahead. Terrifying rumors about the seminar ran wild among new students. Blind tasting notes could be broadcasted on projectors for the world to see as they were graded by all-knowing MWs. Essays submitted with superficial examples that anyone could glean from a basic wine book would be deemed insufficient. I realized early on that getting into the program did not mean I was anywhere close to becoming a Master of Wine.

Fortunately, the residential seminar was not as scary as I expected. Masters of Wine are very encouraging, and students can learn a lot if they are willing to acknowledge personal strengths and weaknesses. Too often, people in wine are afraid to ask questions because it reveals that they might not know something. The reality is that if you don’t ask questions, you’ll never actually know the answers. No book can replace the expertise of an individual who has experience with a region, wine, or vintage firsthand.

This became one of my biggest takeaways from the first-year seminar: I needed to know a whole lot more about wine, and not just facts. l felt like I knew next to nothing, and I wondered how I could possibly write full-length essays on global wine subjects that demonstrated true mastery. I had to learn how to think differently; MW essays are about more than facts alone. They must be carefully thought-out arguments that answer big, internationally relevant questions with painstakingly specific firsthand knowledge of the subject. It’s the difference between memorizing and reciting Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” versus writing an essay analyzing its underlying meaning, historical context, and greater impact on poets of his time. Luckily for me, I find the latter far more interesting.

Right from the start, I realized that I had to study effectively. I can thank  Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan , MW, for her session at the seminar on “studying smarter, not harder” for this revelation. She focused on maximizing study time, studying more actively, and setting measurable goals. The presentation made me realize something I knew as a former teacher but forgot as a new student: I had to organize the information that I learned in a meaningful way so that I could teach it to myself again. I remember reading an entire chapter on enzymes and not retaining any of it. Reading about a concept in September was of no use at the exam in June if I had not found a way to commit the concept to memory. Reading is not studying. Reading is reading. I had to do more than that to learn the information. I started creating charts in Word documents that addressed basic facts and uses for key topics, like yeasts, the rationale behind the uses, and then real-world examples of these uses. I collected information from books, publications, and experts in the field. I did this for every subject that could be on the exam because it helped me see the bigger picture, and answer the ultimate question: “So what?”

The tasting portion of the MW exam presents a different set of challenges. It spans three days, and candidates blind taste 36 wines in total, including 12 whites, 12 reds, and 12 of anything deemed relevant within the categories of fortified, sparkling, rosé, and dessert wines. There have been verticals of Saint-Estèphe on the exam for students to discover. MW candidates can’t only know classics, either, because the MW exam covers everything from White Zinfandel to Grand Cru Burgundy. For those of us in the industry who rarely drink commercial wines, it’s a reality check. On the same exam, candidates could be asked to analyze a mass-market Moscato, an amphora-fermented Rkatsiteli, and a textbook Meursault. All deserve a place in this big wide world of wine.

For me, preparing for this kind of exam allowed me to appreciate the wine industry from top to bottom. The MW exam requires that students, in addition to identifying the wines in a flight, write detailed production notes, or winemaking notes, to explain how each wine was made based on evidence in the glass. It therefore became just as important for me to be able to write a confident production note about a wine I thought was a commercial, off-dry California red blend for $8 as it was to write a production note for an ageworthy example of Barolo costing $100. Since my background in wine focused on sales and marketing, not in a vineyard or winery, I had to find ways to fully understand how wines were made, beyond what I could read in books. This meant talking to winemakers personally about their techniques and philosophies. It also meant that I had to train my nose and palate to differentiate between these nuances in a much more specific way. Saying that a wine has been aged in new French oak is all well and good, but specifying that it has been aged in 50% new French oak for 12 months is more precise. Likewise, I couldn’t just assert that a Pinot Noir was cold soaked; I had to pull aspects from the glass, like its depth of color and buoyant, red berry aromatics, to prove it.

This translated to tasting constantly and comparing my assessments to reality. Study partners lined up wines of various sweetness levels next to each other, mimicking an exam question. We would taste them without knowing anything in the flight and try to nail the grams of residual sugar. A lineup might include Sauternes, Tokaji 6 Puttonyos, Canadian icewine, Muscat de Beaumes de Venise, and Vin Santo. Hopefully, the presence of botrytis (or not), alcohol levels, and oxidative notes (or not) will lead you down the right path, but if you go back to taste again too many times, you’ve just got a mouthful of sugar. The perception of sweetness also changes if the wines are tasted in the wrong order. I had to train myself to taste accurately and quickly. 

I also learned to surround myself with people who were equally driven. I tasted every weekend with a group of other talented candidates, some of whom are now Masters of Wine, and some of whom we hope to see with the initials MW after their names very soon. We put together 12-wine mock exams each Sunday, but blind tasting alone was not enough. We discovered that if we only ever tasted blind, we could commit to memory false associations. We also found that it was useful to taste open-label in between blind tasting sessions. As a group, we put together semi-blind sessions that focused on one region or quality. These people became my friends, not just tasting partners, and we provided moral support for each other at seminars, course days, and during the exam.

Enter the next challenge with tasting: confidence. Without confidence, you question your instincts, which slows you down and can impede accuracy. To pass the MW exam, I knew I had to be able to blind taste and identify 12 wines in 2 hours and 15 minutes. This might seem like an eternity, but it means that you have about 11 minutes per wine, and you must write about the wine in enormous detail. It took me 8 to 9 minutes to write these answers, depending on the wine. Your notes must be clearly organized, and you typically have to justify the grape variety, specific origin, quality level, production method, commercial appeal, and ageability with specific evidence from the glass. Ultimately, I determined that I only had about 2 minutes to decide what a wine was to finish the exam completely. 

This was a lesson hard learned. At the second-year seminar in January of 2015, after months of strong tasting and positive feedback, I had a terrible mock exam. I missed 4 out of 12 wines completely, and barely wrote notes on the Burgundies in the lineup because I ran out of time. I was embarrassed to have my paper graded by an MW. I had lost confidence in my calls, wasted time panicking, and bombed. With six months to the exam, I needed to find a way to make sure that the same thing did not happen when it mattered. 

I decided to start blind tasting out loud in a manner similar to how I’d seen students study for CMS exams. All the wine exams I’d taken were written, and there is a safety in blind tasting when answers are written and turned in under an anonymous student ID number. Saying my tasting notes verbally, in front of people, made me accountable for every word. It was out there for the world to hear if I called a Barossa Shiraz a Mendoza Malbec or a basic Chablis a Grand Cru. Over the next six months, I added verbal blind tasting to my study plan, forcing myself to make identifications out loud in two minutes or less. My speed improved dramatically. So did my confidence. I stopped wasting time by questioning myself, and my notes were stronger. By June, I was ready for anything.

I contend that the greatest lesson I learned from the Master of Wine program, aside from how to think critically about wine, was the power of resolute self-belief. Without it, no amount of preparation matters. I used to have a swim coach who said that on game day, 90% of success is mental. I think that is true of the world’s toughest wine exams, too. You will never succeed without training, but you must also trust that you can become what you set out to be.

Many MWs touted the power of self-belief when I was a student. Their stories of mental preparation included everything from posting inspirational quotes around the house to wearing a nametag that already had the initials “MW” after their name while studying. On the night before the MW exam, I posted signs all over my hotel room that read, “You are already a Master of Wine. Just fill out the paperwork.” I believed it was true. The next day I strolled in with my headphones on, blasting “Eye of the Tiger,” started my timer, and let the rest flow. 

There were plenty of times throughout my journey when I doubted myself, or felt out of place as a young woman trying to make my voice heard in a room full of more seasoned professionals. There were times that others questioned the value of the MW credential, or the value of wine credentials in general. I clung to the people who supported me, learned from my fellow students, put my head down, and did the work, all the way through to the end when I completed the third and final stage, the research paper. The reward was worth every struggle.

I say this with sincerity to all wine students reading this: if you truly believe in yourself, exhibit the humility to learn from others, and put in the necessary work, you can achieve whatever goals you set for yourself. I hope to see you on the other side.

Thank you for sharing your inspirational story.  I am what you’d call a “late bloomer” when it comes to my place on the wine path. I am still at the very beginning stages, and often question if what I’m doing will lead to anything meaningful as a career being that I’ve started so late in the game.  However, I guess what is really the most important thing to hold onto is just to stay true to the reasons I embarked on this new path in the first place - because I love learning about the world of wine and sharing that world with others.  I can see from your story, that you have the same kind of motivation and that is so helpful for people like me to know.  Thank you!

Well written and inspirational. Thank you for sharing!

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Wine Everest. Exactly.  Your preserverence and grit are inspiring.  Thank you for sharing your experiences regarding self belief and confidence.  

Awesome read and SO proud of you! What a huge inspiration. 

Incredible achievement to pass MW on first attempt! Massive props!

The advice contained in your article should essential reading for any and every potential MW candidate. Especially the paragraph on the first year residential seminar.

Really valuable insights.

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A History of Wine, Spirits and Drunkenness in Art

This thesis explores the intertwining narratives of wine, spirits, and drunkenness in art history, examining the cultural, social, and symbolic significance of these elements. In this case, I have examined the presentation of wine, spirits, and drunkenness in art in two significant art periods: the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century and late 19th/early 20th-century Europe from Realism to Cubism. In doing this, I have also examined the cultural and political forces in place that shaped how alcohol consumption was perceived and presented by selected artists of these periods, some of whom were also enthusiastic consumers. While it is not my primary intent to provide commentary on the societal usage of wine and spirits, it is sometimes unavoidable and even necessary to understand why artists tackled this complex social issue as they did.

During the Dutch Golden Age, there was a triumphant and euphoric feeling from those who were part of this unique European State. In the midst of throwing off the Habsburg of Spain, the newly minted Dutch Republic was unencumbered by a self-serving monarchy and adopted a soft-governance approach which allowed for unique freedoms within Dutch society. As a result of these circumstances, and taking advantage of their geographical location in Europe, the Dutch Republic became the wealthiest country on the continent through their global trading empire. The Dutch Reformed Church, while not technically a state church but rather a “privileged” one, scraped off the largess of the previous Catholic theology and centered itself as an unadorned pathway to God. As a result, church commissions for religious paintings were no longer a source of income for Dutch artists and, as a consequence, those artists pivoted to other subjects that would appeal to a patriotic, growing, and generous merchant class and the category of Dutch genre painting evolved. All manner of Dutch life was represented including drinking to excess and the social disorder that was a result. However, it was generally portrayed with gentleness and humor and without strong moral judgement.

By contrast, France was in an extreme state of political and social upheaval during the early and middle 19th century and that turmoil permeated all walks of French life including the arts. With the Industrial Revolution driving a wedge between the “haves” and “have nots” and subjugating the less fortunate working class to the squalor of the hastily created, dehumanizing cityscapes of the day, coping often meant abusing alcohol and especially absinthe, known as the green fairy . The artists of that era, from Realists to Cubists and from Manet to Picasso, many of whom were also enthusiastic consumers of absinthe, captured the human damage inflicted and it is reflected in their poignant works.

By examining works of artists of both the Dutch Golden Age and those of Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century, I have drawn contrasts between the two approaches of representing the social phenomenon of the overindulgence of alcohol and what circumstances caused those differences to occur.

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Liang, Chao. "An industrial analysis of the United States wine industry, world wine industry and China wine industry." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999liang,pdf.

Gabzdylova, Barbora. "Corporate social responsibility : environmental concern in New Zealand's wine industry : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Commerce in the University of Canterbury /." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Management, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/879.

Walters, Alejandro 1962. "Rebuilding technologically competitive industries : lessons from Chile's and Argentina's wine industry restructuring." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9322.

Mullins, Michelle Lee Sykuta Michael. "Regulation and distribution of wine in the United States." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6132.

McKinnon, Alexander. "The impact of amino acids on growth performance and major volatile compound formation by industrial wine yeast." Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85797.

Held, Spencer. "How to Solve the Future of the Wine Industry: An Analysis of the Wine Industries Packaging Options When Targeting The Millennial and Gen-Z Demographics." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2020. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2211.

Brito, Carlos Henrique Figueiredo E. Melo. "Collective action in industrial networks : the case of the port wine industry." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337350.

Van, Zyl Anina. "The application of Fourier transform near infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy in the wine, fruit and dried fruit industries of South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51940.

Augustine, Robyn. "Forward osmosis membranes for direct fertigation within the South African wine industry." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2664.

Giménez, Gómez Pablo. "Development of electrochemical (bio)sensors and microanalytical systems. Application to the wine industry." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/405524.

Larentis, Bruno Zorrer. "Sistematização do APPCC para uso nas vinícolas : o caso do vinho merlot da vinícola Larentis." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2014. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/825.

Duquesnois, Franck. "LES STRATÉGIES DES PETITES ENTREPRISES DANS LES INDUSTRIES EN CRISE : Une étude des caves particulières de la région vitivinicole du Languedoc-Roussillon." Phd thesis, Université Montpellier I, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00765657.

Andrade, Simone Fonseca de. "Desenvolvimento de inteligência competitiva no setor vitivinícola." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2014. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/862.

Puiggròs, i. Jové Josep Maria. "La cultura de la vinya i el vi a Catalunya, de l’edat mitjana als temps actuals." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/664418.

Valente, Joana Miguel Leite Duarte. "Subprodutos alimentares: novas alternativas e possíveis aplicações farmacêuticas." Master's thesis, [s.n.], 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/5312.

Yang, Nan. "Quality differentiation in wine markets." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/n_yang_050210.pdf.

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Maurel, Carole. "Les déterminants financiers de la performance export des PME : le cas de la filière vin française." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON10003.

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"A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness And wilderness is paradise now."

Having graduated from the Austrian Wine Academy (Weinakademie Osterreich) WSET Diploma programme, having written and defended a thesis on the topic of “Brettanomyces in wine, a fault or not?” with flying colours, I acquired the title of Weinakademiker. At that time I believed I wouldn’t proceed with my wine education any further. However, a number of people, including Masters of Wine, told me that I should try to enroll in the MW programme.

Having started the MW programme, I began searching the Internet for articles on how to prepare for my first upcoming exam - Stage 1 Assessment (S1A). But I failed to find any specific information. That is the reason I have decided to write this article and share my successful preparation and examination experience.

At the end of the first year of studying in the MW programme at the Institute of Masters of Wine, all MW students are to take their first exam - S1A. This test takes place in early June, that is, in fact, 9 months after getting into the programme.

Information about admission to the programme appears in early September. It may seem that a nine-month preparation period sounds very long and that there is enough time ahead but believe me when I say that time will pass by very fast. You need to start preparing for the exam as quickly as possible.

I want to make it clear right at the outset that the MW programme is very difficult and it is impossible to get prepared for the exam over a weekend, week or month. Passing the examination requires lengthy systematic preparation. Of course, it very much depends on each individual, on their mental abilities, their working experience in the wine industry, their basic and wine education. But the amount of information and the list of recommended literature were so great that when I started the programme, I didn’t know what to begin with. The first year was very difficult for me personally.

Until about January I had a complete mess in my head when trying to work out my preparation method and my wine tasting system. During the preparation process I got to know many different people: Masters of Wine and MW students Stage 2 - they willingly shared their experience, and I listened carefully, took notes and memorized everything.

PREPARATION

The s1a exam.

LEONID FADEEV, MW Student Stage 2, Weinakademiker, DipWSET, WorldSom Magister Sommelier, Executive Director of Cote Rocheuse JSC.

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As I write this, I’m still marveling over this year’s Revocation . Great speeches, wonderful music. The graduating seniors of this resilient and oh-so-talented class were presented with their Honors medallions. They had completed the most robust requirements for graduation “with honors” in the country, earning at least 45 honors credit hours (with at least a 3.3 GPA overall), meeting our distribution requirements across the disciplines, engaging in at least one beyond-the-classroom activity (internship, study away, service-learning, research), and completing a senior thesis. As the Honors College has grown (over 2,300 now), we have evolved our staff and our procedures to support and guide these students. They’re amazing, and it’s gratifying work.

How amazing are they? Well, let me tell you about the two winners of the Mould Senior Thesis Award, created a decade ago by the family of William Mould, the first dean of the South Carolina Honors College.

Carlos Sanchez-Julia’s senior thesis was based based on a 23-day research trip to the rainforest in Ecuador in the summer of 2023. Funded by the Honors College and the university’s Magellan program, and directed by Robert Kopack of the geography department, Carlos conducted 28 surveys, collaborating with researchers from conservation groups and other universities. His fieldwork illuminates the agricultural practices in Ecuador’s Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve, where there is a fascinating and crucially important competition between two kinds of cacao farming, with dramatically different implications for the reserve. Carlos’s work combined economic geography, political ecology, critical development studies, and sustainable resource use. His bright future includes most immediately working this summer for the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee, and then this fall beginning his master’s degree at the University of Copenhagen as one of only 20 winners of the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters award .

Our other winner, Meaghan Arnold, was nominated by Lydia Matesic, who’s in the biology department and directs the  Cardiovascular Technology Program . As Professor Matesic puts it, “Meaghan pointed out the underappreciated parallels in the cellular mechanisms that promote both cancer and heart failure. Combined, these disorders account for the lion’s share of mortality worldwide.” Meaghan’s work “has opened the door to new avenues for drug design that could impact large numbers of individuals with cancer or heart failure worldwide.” An undergraduate whose research has the potential to change how we treat cancer and heart failure!?! Understandably, Professor Matesic intends to submit this work to “a high impact journal, and Meaghan will be first author.”

Student research is funded in part by generous donors to the Honors College—and this seems like a good place to say “thank you” to all our supporters, past and future.

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Yale college 2024: meet some of the graduates.

Top row, left to right, Nathan Chen, Awa Cisse, and Rohan Krishnan. Second row, left to right, Olivia Sally, Max Hammond, and Mirabel Nguyen.

Here, Yale News spotlights a few of the exceptional members of the Yale College Class of 2024, a group whose accomplishments and contributions have strengthened the Yale campus and the world beyond.

Selected from nominations submitted by residential college heads and deans, these outstanding students include poets and physicists, pianists, and environmentalists, even an Olympic gold medal winner.  One arrived on campus with visions of becoming a neurosurgeon, but soon found his calling as a writer. Another, who came to Yale through the Eli Whitney Students Program, returned to her native Senegal with other Yale scientists waging a long-term battle on malaria. When they weren’t in the classroom, they were assisting migrant communities, creating new curricula for schoolchildren, or looking to prove long-held physics theories.

We hope this small but impressive sample offers a sense of the creativity, compassion, and resilience of the undergraduate Class of 2024.

Nicole Alleyne

For Nicole Alleyne, the human body is a versatile instrument — a maker of music, a channel to the past, a tool for learning, and a link to the land. She has tapped into these potentials while inspiring others to do the same through her academic and extracurricular pursuits at Yale College and beyond.

In her capstone project at Yale, Alleyne reimagined outdoor education with a focus on connecting Black students to the land.  She also did fieldwork for a “land-based pedagogy” project during a gap year, leading a natural science curriculum for 5th-graders in Oregon.

“ Something that is totally missing in traditional education is treating students’ bodies as active parts and interlocutors in their learning experience,” she said. “For instance, when learning about plant species, we were using our senses. We were looking or touching, smelling… Your body has all of these tools in order to learn about the world. How can we use our bodies and these gifts in ways we might not be able to do in the classroom?”

Read more about Nicole Alleyne

Nathan Chen

Nathan Chen always knew his Yale career would be split in two: when he arrived in the fall of 2018, the figure skater already had the 2022 Winter Olympics in his sights, and would need to take time off to prepare and compete.

While on campus, the demands of training meant that his days were packed, with classes in the morning and rink time in the afternoon. And even as he carried a full course load, he embarked on a remarkable competitive winning streak. He continued to dominate the sport during two years of leave from Yale, reaching the summit of the sport with a gold medal in men's single figure skating at the Beijing Olympics in 2022. Then came a whirlwind few months that included talk show appearances and a tour with Stars on Ice.

Yet when he returned to Yale that fall, it was with a renewed sense of excitement at becoming a student again —  and discovering some of the experiences he’d missed the first time around. 

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There’s a word that carries deep cultural meaning in Awa Cisse’s native Senegal; Téranga , which comes from the Wolof language, connotes the values of selflessness and generosity, and the importance of giving back to one’s community.

For Cisse, the word téranga isn’t just a reminder of her Senegalese roots, it’s a sort of guidepost for how she wants to live her life.

As a young, girl she frequented hospitals for a variety of reasons and developed an appreciation for  just how many people it takes to provide patient care.  “There is this whole ecosystem of care, from the people who greet you at the front door to those who assist you when you’re leaving,” said Cisse, who came to Yale as part of the Eli Whitney Students Program.

“ Every single piece of the puzzle is important, and it all helps make everything work. This is what inspired me to pursue a life in health care.”

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Drop in on Amy Cohen and chances are you’ll find her creating something beautiful: an architectural frame, a laser-cut puzzle, a strawberry cake, an oil painting. The mechanical engineering student’s online portfolio also displays a music box, a ceramic bowl, even a menorah made of hex nuts.

“ My grandfather bought me an Erector Set when I was little — sort of foreshadowing that I’ve always loved making things,” said Cohen.

She chose her major because it combined math and design — “two things I really like.” While completing a professionally accredited track with a near-perfect GPA, she worked with the acclaimed Hatfield Group as a structural engineering intern.  Meanwhile, the mechanical engineering department, recognizing her enthusiasm for the field, chose her as an undergraduate representative for committee and recruitment work.

“ It’s a small major — we’ve all had many classes together, so I’d say it feels like family,” Cohen said. “And I'm lucky to have several professors who have really taken an interest in helping me far beyond what was required in their class.”

Read more about Amy Cohen

Ben Everett-Lane

Ben Everett-Lane’s academic journey has been driven by a deep curiosity about others — and a desire to connect.

When he learned that in 2012 some residents on the Connecticut shoreline decided to stay in their homes despite the threat of Hurricane Sandy, he became fascinated with how they reached this decision. It would become the topic of his undergraduate thesis.

“ How people perceive and behave around climate change is meaningful to me, because fundamentally, we don’t need more science to prove that climate change exists — there’s clearly some disconnect between the science and the way that we perceive it and interact with it,” he said. “I’m interested in being a person who’s able to re-analyze, communicate, and work with different groups of people around climate change to tackle these knowledge gaps.”

Read more about Ben Everett-Lane

Laura Guerra-Lopez

Growing up in Miami, Laura Guerra-Lopez would pepper her parents with questions about their native Venezuela, the once-democratic nation that was by then mired in political and economic chaos.

Looking back, Guerra-Lopez is grateful for the frank, but age-appropriate way her parents included her in those dinnertime conversations.  “They would have real conversations,” she said. “They would tell me about what was going on, but they introduced things in a way that was not so devastating that I turned away from it.”

Those interactions with her parents, and their closeness as a family in a new country where they had no other relatives, ignited her passion for social justice and serving the immigrant community.

Read more about Laura Guerra-Lopez

Max Hammond

Over the winter, Max Hammond gave more time than usual to the piano — about eight hours a day, up from his long-term average of about five. He was applying to conservatories and aiming to impress.

The mathematics major from Los Angeles also took care to provide for his customary allotment of nightly rest: “I can’t function without eight or nine hours,” he said.

The extra keyboard and pillow time paid off: Hammond, a past winner of Yale’s Sharp Prize for “most outstanding performer in the junior class,” was accepted at six top music conservatories. After Yale, he’ll enroll at Julliard as a master’s degree candidate in solo piano performance, in tune with his pursuit of a career as a recitalist steeped in but hardly confined to the classical music cannon.

“ I want to figure out what’s next in classical music,” he said.

Read more about Max Hammond

Rohan Krishnan

Supporting refugee students as they navigated their new lives in New Haven was just one of many ways Rohan Krishnan made global connections during his time at Yale.

He came to campus committed to helping young migrants succeed academically — a cause he became passionate about while performing community service as a high school student. Beyond that, he was simply eager to experience as many new people, subjects, and activities as time would allow, thinking “the sky’s the limit.”

Still, he was amazed by the multitude of Yale’s offerings.

“ Never would I have imagined that I would meet world leaders, take courses with several former U.S. ambassadors, or tackle a real-world foreign policy issue,” said Krishnan, who majored in global affairs.

Read more about Rohan Krishnan

Alyssa Michel

Before arriving at Yale four years ago, Alyssa Michel imagined that college life would be something like an extension of her high school years. An engaged student in high school, involved in 20 or so clubs, she expected her time at Yale would involve similar pursuits.

“ I thought that if I swam in high school, then I would swim in college. Or if I did journalism in high school, I would have to do journalism in college,” said Michel. “What I didn’t expect is that you can do whatever you want. And, especially at a place like Yale, when you do something, it becomes your baby, and you invest a lot of time into it.”

This realization opened up many new worlds to Michel — including podcasting, gardening, teaching,  and even launching a business inspired by her grandmother’s traditional sorrel recipe.

Read more about Alyssa Michel

Grace Miller

As a Yale sophomore, Grace Miller began working as a student tutor in the Department of Economics. Helping her peers grasp the principles and intricacies of macroeconomics made her realize she that has a passion for education.

A year later, she began working as an intern three days a week at Common Ground High School, a public charter school in New Haven, serving as an aide in an outdoor leadership class and freshman algebra, chaperoning overnight camping trips, and running an afterschool program. And for her senior thesis, the economics major, who also completed the Education Studies Scholars Intensive Certificate, conducted an analysis of the effects of public school district mergers in Vermont.

Next year, she will teach in Chattanooga, Tennessee’s public school system.

Read more about Grace Miller

John Nguyen

John Nguyen entered Yale with plans to become a neurosurgeon. Instead, he found his calling as a writer.

As a high school student in St. Paul, Minnesota, he had been laser-focused on STEM subjects. But after taking some English classes at Yale he discovered a new love for reading and writing — with the support of a community of humanists that included a Nobel Prize-winning poet.  

He decided to major in English and developed such a fondness for poetry that he started writing poems on his own. Last year Nguyen was selected to represent Yale in the annual Connecticut Poetry Circuit, a statewide competition of college student poets.

“ I’d never encountered such community in any other space.”

Read more about John Nguyen

Mirabel Nguyen

Mirabel Nguyen came to Yale having never visited the campus. In fact, she’d barely seen any photographs before arriving in New Haven for the first time. But when selecting a college, she was determined not to be swayed by beautiful scenery anyway; she wanted to choose a school solely on its academic merits.

Nguyen was determined to excel academically and busy herself with extracurricular activities.  But after finally arriving at Yale, she began to develop more holistic goals.

“ I learned that it’s so much more than academic and extracurricular excellence that matters to me,” Nguyen said. “It’s the relationships that I’ve been building with people that show me how to be a better person.”

Read more about Mirabel Nguyen

Olivia Sally

If you had asked Olivia Sally a year ago where she’d be after graduating from Yale, she would have answered that she would be in law school. But a conversation with Mira Debs last spring changed everything.

Sally had just dipped into the icy waters of the Madison Surf Club as part of a polar plunge event at the invitation of her teacher, Debs, executive director of Yale's Education Studies Program. While chatting over post-plunge tacos, Debs mentioned the life-changing experience she had as a Rhodes Scholar, and asked Sally whether she’d considered applying for a similar fellowship.

After eventually applying for, and receiving, a Marshall Scholarship, Sally decided to pursue a Master of Education and Master of Public Policy during two years in the UK, the first member of the Yale Education Studies Program.

Read more about Olivia Sally

Barkotel Zemenu

Barkotel Zemenu is a believer in the revelatory nature of relationships.

At the most fundamental level, he says, relationships between unseen particles form the scaffolding upon which the universe flourishes; on a more human level, relationships between people — especially when speaking a common language — make the experience of living deeply fulfilling.

Zemenu immersed himself in both kinds of relationships at Yale. He excelled in physics, focusing largely on research and development for a detector that may one day prove the existence of a theorized nuclear process called neutrinoless double beta decay, spoke at scientific conferences nationally and internationally, and conducted research on multiple continents.

In a way, however, Zemenu says his treasures lie elsewhere.  “I did not expect college to be the place where academics stopped being my life’s top priority,” he said. “It was a place where I would find far more surpassing joy in the depth of my relationships, living with a fundamental others-centeredness.”

Read more about Barkotel Zemenu

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Eu wine threatened by china’s retaliatory tariffs.

China could be about to target European Union wine exports following EU anti-subsidy investigations into Chinese companies, according to sources.

The prediction, made over the weekend by a Chinese state-affiliated social media account Yuyuan Tantian (玉渊谭天) cited “informed sources” and warned that “China has ample countermeasures ready and will likely retaliate if the EU persists with its actions”.

According to reports , the move could jeopardise the US$800 million wine trade between the EU and China, which official data suggested is equal to almost 70% of China’s total wine imports last year.

Key EU wine exporters to China, including France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Portugal are set to be affected, with France alone accounting for almost half of the wine exports.

In a statement reported by Bloomber g , a Chinese lawyer quoted by Yuyuan Tantian pointed out that the EU wine sectors’ dependence on the Chinese market. Meanwhile, the European Chamber of Commerce in China also echoed the sentiment, amplifying speculation and reiterated that the threat was “significant” and hinted that “European wine and dairy products may find themselves caught in the crossfire.”

In January, China launched an anti-subsidy investigation into EU brandy, which, according to reports, was being positioned as a threat to a US$1.56 billion spirits trade. The activity follows concerns back in 2014 when China threatened to probe EU wines during a dispute over solar panels.

In 2021, China imposed significant tariffs on Australian wines, shaking up the industry in a move which saw tariffs reaching up to 218%. Fortuitously, the tariffs were lifted by the end of March 2024.

China could be about to target European Union wine exports as a result of continued EU anti-subsidy investigations into Chinese companies, according to “informed sources”.

According to reports, the move could jeopardise the US$800 million wine trade between the EU and China, which official data suggested is equal to almost 70% of China’s total wine imports last year.

In a statement reported by Bloomberg, a Chinese lawyer quoted by Yuyuan Tantian pointed out that the EU wine sectors’ dependence on the Chinese market. Meanwhile, the European Chamber of Commerce in China also echoed the sentiment, amplifying speculation and reiterated that the threat was “significant” and hinted that “European wine and dairy products may find themselves caught in the crossfire.”

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Materials Science Alum Wins Jeffery C. Gibeling Master's Thesis Excellence Award

• by Jessica Heath
• May 20, 2024

The University of California, Davis, College of Engineering has announced Margaret Duncan as the recipient of the Jeffery C. Gibeling Master's Thesis Excellence Award. Duncan earned her master's degree in materials science and engineering in 2023 under the mentorship of Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Marina Leite .   

The annual award is named for Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering Jeffery Gibeling , who served as the college's interim dean in 2021. It recognizes the master's student who submitted the best master's thesis as well as the mentorship of their major professor.  

"I'm very thankful," said Duncan. "It's a true honor to receive this award. I'm also incredibly grateful to all the other amazing scientists I had the privilege to work with during my degree, especially my advisor, Professor Marina Leite, whose mentorship and guidance helped me grow into the researcher I am today."   

Duncan's master's thesis, titled "High-Temperature Optics with Refractory Materials," studied the effects of temperature on the optical properties of refractory materials. Refractory materials are a class of high-temperature stable materials that are well known for their physical and thermal stability at high temperatures but whose optical properties have gone unstudied prior to Duncan's research.   

Her project was part of a collaborative effort funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which aimed at discovering and developing materials that could work as an optical emitter for thermophotovoltaics to maximize the efficiency of photovoltaic devices.   

Under Leite's mentorship, Duncan was responsible for key aspects of the DARPA project, performing material fabrication and optical characterization while primarily using the College of Engineering's Center for Nano-MicroManufacturing to quantify the behavior of each material in varying environments and simulate their optical response.  

Duncan, Leite says, is a testament to her program, her college and her university.   

"Margaret was an outstanding student who made substantial progress in research on photonics during her time at UC Davis," she said. "Her project is at the forefront of materials science research, and I am very pleased to see that her talent as a researcher has been recognized by the College of Engineering. She is an ambassador of our program — a student with excellent computational and experimental knowledge and exquisite presentation skills."   

Duncan's thesis includes an analysis of the optical properties of refractory metals and their oxides, nitrides and carbides, as well as an analysis of their optical and chemical responses to high-temperature experiments and their stability. She also investigated possible applications of each structure, including superabsorption (a material's ability to absorb and retain liquid), thermophotovoltaics for sustainable energy and structural colors, which could be used in anticounterfeit technology or protective coatings for spacecraft circuit boards.   

Her dedication, diligence and independence stood out to the project's co-PIs, Leite and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jeremy Munday .   

"She is the kind of student that just gets things done," Munday said. "For example, there was a particular deposition process that we needed for one of the samples [she was working on], but we didn't have the equipment at our university. She searched the internet, made phone calls, and later that day drove down to Stanford to get trained and make the samples. I couldn't believe it."   

Duncan's M.S. thesis research has resulted in three papers published in peer-reviewed journals, one of which made the cover of ACS Applied Optical Materials. She has another paper currently in review.    

She received the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2022. She was awarded special honors for outstanding scholarship and completion of an honors thesis for her bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Texas at Austin.   

Duncan now uses the experimental and computational materials characterization techniques she learned in her graduate program as a research scientist at the technology company Ashwin-Ushas Corporation on projects that range from detecting hazardous chemicals to improving the efficiency of spacecraft heating shields.   

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MFA Thesis Exhibit Offers Deeper Understanding of Queer, Neurodivergent Experience

• Post published: May 20, 2024

Emily Burkhead is an intermedia artist and filmmaker from Memphis, Tennessee, who graduated from Michigan State University in Spring 2024 with an MFA from the Department of Art, Art History, and Design . She is exhibiting her thesis project, Trigger/Glimmer/Something Else , as part of the 2024 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition , which runs through Sunday, May 26, at the  MSU Broad Art Museum . The Trigger/Glimmer/Something Else installation is comprised of a wall of mixed media made of faux fur, 3D filament, clear marine vinyl, and found objects. In front of the mixed media wall, there is a multichannel video installation with two text videos and one short skit video. The text videos are parts of a manifesto that describes how Burkhead’s social experiences as a queer, neurodivergent child manifest into larger institutional systems and how she came to embrace her “otherness” from a young age. The middle channel is a socio-surrealist film that uses humor and satire to examine the neurodivergent experience.  

“Through this composition, I explore my sensory ‘triggers’ and ‘glimmers,’” Burkhead said. “I take on the role of ‘Mrs. Bubblegum,’ a children’s show host whose story she reads to the audience that takes a strange turn.”

Burkhead was selected as this year’s recipient of the Master of Fine Arts Prize, which was presented during the MFA Exhibition reception on April 6. She earned the MFA Prize for her thesis project. Presenting her with the award was guest juror, Teréz Iacovino, Assistant Curator of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

“Winning the award has been a tremendous honor,” Burkhead said. “It was a shock to say the least. I’m very grateful to everyone who helped support me on my MFA journey including my primary advisor, Lara Shipley .”

Burkhead’s journey into the world of art was unconventional. Initially driven by a deep-rooted interest in film, she tried to abandon this passion in college and pursued a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from Rhodes College, graduating from the program in 2020. However, her passion for art reignited during her junior year when she began taking digital art classes, leading her to work on experimental film and video. The absence of a traditional film production program at Rhodes College prompted Burkhead to seek interdisciplinary film and studio art programs, which led her to MSU’s MFA program.

Without a traditional MFA background, Burkhead spent the early part of the program honing her studio practice. During this period of hard work, she found a balance between intuitive creation and guided practice.

“I went into art and film because it helps me answer complex personal questions, but I want to make those questions accessible to others. Otherwise, how else do I learn if I’m just making things in an echo chamber?”

“I begin by following my gut, then examining the work, getting feedback, figuring out what it means, and lastly setting goals for more production, if necessary,” she said. “I went into art and film because it helps me answer complex personal questions, but I want to make those questions accessible to others. Otherwise, how else do I learn if I’m just making things in an echo chamber?” Burkhead’s work encompasses various mediums, including video art, experimental textiles, found objects, collage, and 3D printing, as she navigates existential questions and seeks a deeper understanding of herself and the surrounding social landscape within a broader cultural context.

“I follow intuitive inquiry that seeks a deeper understanding of myself within a broader cultural context,” she said. “Why am I so apprehensive to be overly or inadequately feminine? Why do I feel othered? Why am I attracted to this garish material while being afraid to wear it? Since making the shift from creating films that are structured with a beginning, middle, and end to fostering a fluid studio practice, I have found freedom following my investigation of the material wherever it leads guided by my introspective exploration.” Burkhead’s approach to translating complex emotions into visual form is rooted in vulnerability and experimentation. Embracing risk-taking in her craft, she explores new avenues of expression, allowing her work to evolve organically. She was first influenced by experimental filmmakers such as Maya Deren and Cecelia Condit. She continues to draw inspiration from their exploration of the feminine psyche and the broader artistic tradition of feminist film and art. Some of the more recently discovered artists she looks up to include Mika Rottenberg, Bonnie Lucas, Hito Steyerl, and Diana Cooper.

“In my current body of work, I’ve drawn a lot of inspiration from the queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent communities online,” Burkhead said. “Platforms like Instagram and TikTok have so much content that allows people like me to embrace their inner child regardless of what they may have lost while coming of age.”

MSU’s MFA program has shaped Burkhead’s artistic practice, providing opportunities for growth and interdisciplinary exploration. Looking ahead, she envisions expanding her practice to encompass mixed media, textiles, and performance art while integrating surrealist video. She aims to create art that resonates with neurodivergent, queer, trans, nonbinary, and disabled individuals, challenging societal perceptions and fostering understanding beyond social media platforms. In Trigger/Glimmer/Something Else , Burkhead hopes to reveal the complexity of neurodivergent minds and queer childhood experiences while subverting typical expectations. Through her detailed and multifaceted work, she invites viewers to contemplate the intricacies of identity and existence, sparking conversations about inclusivity and acceptance in contemporary society. For more information on the MFA Exhibition, see the  2024 MFA Exhibition web page .

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