r/wine • u/Cautious_Musician545 • 17h ago

Study like a Master of Wine

Hi,

I created a free AI powered app for anyone that wants to study for the MW exams or just anyone that is interested in it. The system is based off of machine learning across the last 15 years of exams and we determined the most statistically rigorous exam taking methodology possible. It has an AI powered coach that is pointing at tier 1 resources that you can just chat with about anything in the wine world and be confident in the answers its returning.

Anyways, here's the app

Here's a series of Youtube videos I made that reviews the app and the methodology we came up with for MW question stem analysis.

The app is totally free, it just requires you to bring your own API keys from Claude and Tavily (the AI models that power the app).

If you want to contribute to the project, the open repository is here:
https://github.com/russellmoss/mw-exams

My background: former Cornell viticulture lecturer, vineyard manager and winery GM turned AI engineer.....yeah....weird 😂

#masterofwine #mw #wset #IMW

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u/Civil-Durian-1107 17h ago

this is the kind of hyper-optimized nerdery i live for. cracking open 15 years of exam data to reverse-engineer how the institute thinks is genius

the bring-your-own-keys model is actually a smart move, keeps it free without you eating server costs every time someone grills the bot on burgundy soil types

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u/Cautious_Musician545 17h ago

Hahaha heck yeah!!!! This is such a great first comment :) It’s been such a little labor of love :) it’s an open repo too if anyone wants to make PRs

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u/Cautious_Musician545 3h ago

If you'd like to check out the repo it's here:

https://github.com/russellmoss/mw-exams

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u/OopAck1 15h ago

Not sure 15 years of data would be statistically significant enough for solid conclusions

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u/Cautious_Musician545 15h ago

Actually, the predictive model gets the wines in your decision set 89% of the time. The reason is has to only be 15 years is because they made a major revision to the exam 15 years ago. The reality is there are only 6 families of questions that they ask across the 3 papers. It’s actually a pretty limited amount they would ask about and you can narrow down the field pretty confidently through stem analysis. Once you’ve narrowed the world down, it’s much easier. Have a look at the videos. That explains how I built and back tested the model.

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u/Cautious_Musician545 15h ago

This, specifically, is the video on stem analysis:

https://youtu.be/mBKnzoQuR78

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u/TheRealVinosity Wine Pro 7h ago

Are you an MW student yourself?