certification
Activate Your Wine Career
Wine Folly Certifications are an excellent way to prove your knowledge and gain access to jobs in the wine trade.
Wine Folly is globally recognized as a premiere wine education platform and has won many awards.
Complete your exams and earn your certification in real time. No need to wait weeks or months!
the team
Your Wine Experts
Award winning instructors.

Madeline Puckette

Christine Marsiglio MW
frequently asked questions
Want to Know More?
No. The videos are pre-recorded so that you can watch at your own pace and timezone.
Wines are not required for this course, but if you want you’ll learn the skills to source your own delicious wines should you wish.
We recommend at least 7 hours of learning, which is best split over a week, but you can go at your own pace and finish earlier or take more time should you wish.
No. An active beginner can take this course and quickly get up to speed on both wine basics and the more intricate details.
No. We’ll teach you tools that will allow you to go out and taste, buy, and enjoy wines in a more confident way.
Upon purchase you will be invited to join our courses learning platform to start the course whenever you wish. You can access the course at any time and from any device. Start and stop whenever you desire. Take your time or zoom through it.
100% satisfaction guarantee, within 30 days of purchase.
Yes! Upon completion (you have to score 80% or higher) of the certificate challenge you will get a unique, encoded digital certificate that you can also share on LinkedIn.
A Sommelier is actually a job that can't really be conferred by a course. You have to work on a restaurant floor to actually become/be a sommelier. BUT our course will definitely give you the tools and understanding you need to become a competent sommelier. So, if you were to take our course and work in the wine side of the restaurant business then you would definitely be a sommelier. An example is our Master of Wine, Christine Marsiglio. She is not a sommelier as she’s never worked on a restaurant floor and so wouldn’t legitimately call herself a sommelier. However, she is a wine expert, and has the knowledge, but less so the practical skills required to be a sommelier. There's always a practical component involved in being a sommelier, which is normally conferred through working in a restaurant.
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Paso Robles/Central Coast Newbie
I enrolled in this course in advance of a 6-week trip to Paso Robles and the CA central coast. The course prepared me to be conversant about the region's terroir and climate which was helpful to understanding what I was tasting. I would take a class like this one before future trips to other wine regions because it provided enough baseline knowledge to ask good questions and learn even more from the winemakers I met.

Paso review
It was good. A couple of thoughts. It would be nice to have printable map of the region. It helps as a reference as you are reading or studying. The quizzes are good for retention.

Great Course
First course I have ever purchased from WF, but won't be the last. Fun, informative and entertaining.

Paso Robles Wine Class
Once again the folks at Wine Folly have created an easy to understand, educational and interactive experience! I loved the class, and of course the wine from the central coast of California. Keep up the great work!
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