finding wine school reviews?

[Robert Nesta Marley]

does anyone know if there are any wine school reviews published anywhere online? i'm having trouble comparing the asa program with the iwc program.....the iwc advanced certificate program is up to 50 people in the class. this seems a little large for $800. i'm not sure if there will be much opportunity for discussion....

thanks.

[LaNiña]

I thought about that too. But so many people I spoke to pointed me back to the IWC class, it seemed the thing to do. And really, anyway, if you find some place which reviews the courses, how are you going to know if it's truly objective, or whether or not there is some behind-the-scenes affiliation?

[helenas]

Just a thought: if you take a program to get a certificate, maybe it makes sense

to discuss the value of this or that certificate with wine professionals...

But, from information i gathered a while ago, i tend to agree with Nina.

[jordyn]

I'm not sure how much I trust their judgement, but a few years back Time Out wrote up a syopsis of a bunch of different wine courses in the City:

http://www.timeoutny.com/eatout/128/128.ea...ne.classes.html

More recently, one of their writers tried the class given by the American Sommelier Association, which also includes (shorter) synopses of other programs:

http://www.timeoutny.com/eatout/282/282.eat.feat.html