American Wine Society

Publications : the aws flagship publication, "the wine journal", was published four times during the year and distributed to nearly 7,000 aws members as well as libraries and wine industry recipients. The journal contains articles on viticulture, enology, industry trends and research news. The bimonthly newsletter is distributed to all aws members and is primarily used as a communication tool with the members on aws businesses.: the journal is available in print and electronic format. The aws newsletter is available electronically.

Wine competition : the aws conducts one of the longest running national wine competitions in the us. Our amateur wine competition, open to members and non-members, provides encouragement and guidance to home winemakers. Our national wine competition rewards excellence in commercially available wines. The competition provides judging experience and opportunities to the aws-certified wine judges.our team developed a process to conduct the competition safely despite covid, and allowed this program to continue

Member services : local chapters and members' services : aws maintain local chapters and membership support training and certification : aws is an approved program provider for the london-based wine & spirits educational trust, a leading global certification program. Despite the challenges of pandemic shutdowns, the organization was able to deliver training digitally and test in-person safely. To allow our chapter/affiliates to continue programming remotely, the aws provided small specimen bottles and zoom licensed that that allowed our local chapter/ affiliates. Collaborating with industry leaders and educators, we provided or collaborated on more than a dozen national virtual educational and tasting opportunities free of charge to thousands of our members and the general public.