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Your learning companion for the WSET Awards and the Wine Scholar Guild’s certifications. Exam-style questions with a textbook like learning experience.

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What revising here looks like

Six ways Helix gets you exam-ready.

Multiple choice questions

Every wrong option teaches a wine.

Wine distractors are near neighbours: the right grape in the wrong region, the sibling appellation. Helix explains every option, so one question leaves you knowing four wines.

Interactive region maps

Learn the region by exploring it.

See how Bordeaux is organised by its rivers, then connect each bank and sub-region to the grapes, soils and styles the exam asks about.

Written answer questions

Marked as the exam marks it.

Prepare for the Level 3 written answers with fast, examiner-style marking and feedback. Type your answer in full; Helix scores it against the command word and the marks on offer, and names the points you missed.

The Helix syllabus

The whole syllabus, broken into sub-topics.

Helix breaks each exam’s syllabus into sub-topics, then guides you through them so you never miss a topic and keep your focus on your weakest areas.

Visual learning blocks

See the mechanism, not another paragraph.

Compare warm afternoons with cold nights and the idea becomes visible: a wide temperature range can ripen grapes while helping them hold acidity.

Your personal tutor

Ask Helix, beside every question.

Ask Helix about any question to learn more and get to the bottom of what you don’t understand. It answers on the wine in front of you, not in general terms.

Level 2 · Grapes and regionsQ 21

A wine is labelled Chablis. Which grape variety is it made from?

  • AChardonnayCorrectChablis is 100% Chardonnay: Burgundy’s coolest district, so lean, high-acid and rarely oaked.
  • BSauvignon BlancLoire, not BurgundyThe grape of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, upstream on the Loire.
  • CAligotéBurgundy’s other whiteGrown in Burgundy, but always bottled under its own name.
  • DPinot GrigioWrong countryNorthern Italy’s staple white, not a Burgundy variety.
Multiple choice questions

Every wrong option teaches a wine.

Wine distractors are near neighbours: the right grape in the wrong region, the sibling appellation. Helix explains every option, so one question leaves you knowing four wines.

Level 2 · Grapes and regionsQ 21

A wine is labelled Chablis. Which grape variety is it made from?

  • AChardonnayCorrectChablis is 100% Chardonnay: Burgundy’s coolest district, so lean, high-acid and rarely oaked.
  • BSauvignon BlancLoire, not BurgundyThe grape of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, upstream on the Loire.
  • CAligotéBurgundy’s other whiteGrown in Burgundy, but always bottled under its own name.
  • DPinot GrigioWrong countryNorthern Italy’s staple white, not a Burgundy variety.
Interactive region maps

Learn the region by exploring it.

See how Bordeaux is organised by its rivers, then connect each bank and sub-region to the grapes, soils and styles the exam asks about.

Level 3 · Bordeaux
GirondeGaronneDordogneBordeauxPauillacMargauxLibourneMédocGravesEntre-Deux-MersSaint-Émilion& PomerolSauternesCiron meets Garonne:autumn mists, botrytisN
Cabernet-ledMerlot-ledDry whitesSweet wines
Written answer questions

Marked as the exam marks it.

Prepare for the Level 3 written answers with fast, examiner-style marking and feedback. Type your answer in full; Helix scores it against the command word and the marks on offer, and names the points you missed.

Level 3 · Short written answer4 marks

Explain why Mosel Riesling is typically low in alcohol yet high in acidity.

Your answer

The Mosel has a cool climate, so grapes accumulate less sugar and fermentation yields less alcohol. Riesling holds its naturally high acidity, and the cool region preserves it. It is made in a light style because that is the region’s tradition.

2/4marks

Two marks left on the table

+1Fermentation is often stopped early, retaining sweetness and lowering alcohol further.
+1Link the long, slow ripening season to acidity being retained as flavours develop.
The Helix syllabus

The whole syllabus, broken into sub-topics.

Helix breaks each exam’s syllabus into sub-topics, then guides you through them so you never miss a topic and keep your focus on your weakest areas.

Level 2 · Your syllabus

The syllabus, mapped to sub-topics

Grape growing & winemaking14 sub-topics
82%
Wines of the world22 sub-topics
58%
Sparkling & fortified9 sub-topics
Weakest
Labelling & service7 sub-topics
74%

Helix walks you topic by topic so nothing is missed, and brings your weakest areas back first.

Visual learning blocks

See the mechanism, not another paragraph.

Compare warm afternoons with cold nights and the idea becomes visible: a wide temperature range can ripen grapes while helping them hold acidity.

Level 3 · Climate and placeobserved data
10°C15°C20°C25°C30°C00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00Uco Valley (high-altitude / continental) · JanuaryRías Baixas (maritime) · July~12°Cdiurnal rangesun ripens sugar by daycold nights hold acidity

Open-Meteo ERA5 · hourly means, 2015–2024

Your personal tutor

Ask Helix, beside every question.

Ask Helix about any question to learn more and get to the bottom of what you don’t understand. It answers on the wine in front of you, not in general terms.

Ask Helixtutor

Why is Chablis unoaked when so much other Chardonnay is oaky?

HelixChablis sits in Burgundy’s coolest district, so the fruit is lean and high in acid. Most producers ferment in steel or old oak to protect that freshness, rather than the new oak that flavours Chardonnay from warmer regions.
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The exams

From first steps to specialist, one way of learning.

WSET Level 1

The beginner award · 30 MCQ / 45 min

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The main styles, the principal grapes, and the essentials of storing, serving and pairing, each with the reason behind the answer.


  • ·30 questions in 45 minutes
  • ·Pass mark 70%
  • ·An explanation for every answer
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WSET Level 2

The intermediate award · 50 MCQ / 60 min

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How wine is grown and made, the classic grapes and their regions, sparkling and fortified styles, and the label terms that decode a bottle.


  • ·50 questions in 60 minutes
  • ·Pass mark 55%
  • ·Where the flavour comes from
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WSET Level 3

The advanced award · theory, written and tasting

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The theory paper, four 25-mark written answers marked as the exam marks them, and the tasting grid drilled as examinable knowledge.


  • ·50 MCQs plus four written answers
  • ·AI-marked written practice
  • ·The tasting grid as knowledge
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French Wine Scholar

Wine Scholar Guild · 100 MCQ / 60 min

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The specialist French certification: the foundations and all fourteen regions, Alsace to Corsica, with every appellation fact held to what the regulators publish.


  • ·100 questions in 60 minutes
  • ·Pass mark 75%
  • ·A step beyond WSET Level 3
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Italian Wine Scholar

Wine Scholar Guild · two units, 100 MCQ each

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The specialist Italian certification in two units, north then centre and south, mapped here as one continuous curriculum across every region and DOCG.


  • ·Two unit exams, either order
  • ·Pass at 75% on the average
  • ·Every region, every DOCG
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Spanish Wine Scholar

Wine Scholar Guild · 100 MCQ / 60 min

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The specialist Spanish certification: the foundations and the macro-zones from Green Spain to the islands, with the ageing ladders and DO facts the exam turns on.


  • ·100 questions in 60 minutes
  • ·Pass mark 75%
  • ·All 17 autonomous communities
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