The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) launched its new Level 2 Award Sake I qualification in April. WSET currently offers the Level 3 Award in Sake and the Level 1 Award in Sake, which were launched in 2014 and 2016, respectively. In the last 10 years, more than 17,000 students around the world have taken a WSET sake qualification, with most coming from Japan, the UK, the U.S. and Hong Kong. The Level 2 Award in Sake will complete WSET’s suite of sake qualifications. Building on the Level 1 Award in Sake, it will explore in more detail topics including sake production, types of sake, how to serve the drink and factors affecting its flavors. The course also builds tasting skills using WSET’s globally recognized Systematic Approach to Tasting to equip students with a universal language to describe what they are tasting and a framework for assessing quality. The WSET Level 2 Award in Sake focuses on how the ingredients used by brewers are processed and combined to create the different styles of sake. It will also teach students how to describe and assess the quality of the sakes they taste.