About Erik Wait Whisky Studies

Erik Wait is a Certified Sommelier (Court of Master Sommeliers), French Wine Scholar (Wine Scholar Guild), Certified Scotch Professional (Council of Whisky Masters) and Whiskey Sommelier (Whiskey Marketing School). After graduating from Westminster Theological Seminary he studied enology (wine making) at Las Positas College. He was then introduced to whiskey while studying for the Wine & Spirit Educational Trust (WSET) Diploma. He then became a Certified Whisky Ambassador (BIIAB), studied marketing as the Whisky Marketing School in Austin Texas, and earned a Diploma in Single Malt Scotch from the Edinburgh Whisky Academy. In 2020 Erik Wait was a guest speaker at the Whisky Marketing School where he taught a course on Sherry & Sherry Cask finished whiskies.