Observe before you adjust
Record your ingredient, ripeness, aroma and measurements before making a formulation decision. Start with what this batch tells you.
Professional tropical winemaking education
Learn to Make Tropical Wine with a Method — Not a Guess.
Develop the judgment to evaluate tropical fruit, build balance and create wines with consistency, control and commercial confidence.
8 theory sessionslive online learning
6 hoursflexible mentorship
Caribbean-ledbuilt for tropical ingredients
The Institute
Caribbean knowledge. Caribbean possibility.
The Tropical Wine Method Institute helps people turn tropical ingredients into wines they can understand, evaluate and reproduce.
Our work connects practical winemaking, fermentation science and sensory judgment. We teach beginners, experienced home winemakers and agro-processors to make informed decisions for their own ingredients and conditions.
The purpose reaches beyond a single batch: to build Caribbean capability and a body of knowledge that the next generation can develop further.
The shift
Recipes don’t adjust. A method does.
Fruit structure is never fixed. Acidity, sugar, tannin and ripeness change from fruit to fruit, season to season and place to place. A recipe can tell you what to add. A method teaches you what to notice—and how to decide.
Real winemaking begins when the question changes from “How much do I add?” to “What does this fruit need?”
01
Understand
Read your ingredients and recognise what is happening at each stage.
02
Build
Develop balance, structure and length with intention.
03
Repeat
Create a process you can evaluate, adjust and confidently reproduce.
November 2026 cohort
From following steps to designing your wine.
This guided programme brings fermentation science, sensory thinking and practical decision-making together for serious hobbyists, agro-processors and emerging wine businesses.
BeginsSaturday, 14 November
Live sessions2:00–3:30 p.m. AST
FormatOnline + mentorship
Duration8 theory sessions
Registration closes: Thursday, 12 November 2026Christmas break: 20 December 2026–8 January 2027Final theory session: Saturday, 16 January 2027
What you will strengthen
Not a hobby recipe class—a foundation for better decisions, better wine and a more credible tropical wine sector.
Ingredient assessment
Yeast selection
Fermentation stability
Sugar and alcohol control
Acidity and tannin balance
Sensory evaluation
Batch consistency
Commercial confidence
Why TWMI exists
I am a winemaker who became a method-builder.
I learned that tropical wine cannot be mastered by collecting recipes alone. Our fruit changes from harvest to harvest, and much of the formal knowledge available to us was never built around Caribbean fruit or Caribbean conditions.
So I began developing the Tropical Wine Method—not simply to teach people how to make a batch, but to help them understand the decisions behind the wine.
My dream is to contribute to a credible Caribbean tropical wine industry and leave behind a body of knowledge that future winemakers can expand rather than having to start from scratch.
I still make wine. I simply build the tools, systems and knowledge for other tropical winemakers now, too.
Stacy Herbert
Founder, Lead Winemaker and Educator
A meaningful standard
Certification is earned through completion.
Participants work toward a capstone evaluation that demonstrates practical understanding—not simply attendance.
Certificate requirements
- Complete the required learning sessions
- Meet the capstone evaluation standard
- Complete full programme payment
Pay in fullTT$2,500
Payment plan4 × TT$700TT$2,800 total
Winemaker resources
Build the habit of understanding your wine.
Keep a batch record
Document quantities, additions, dates, fermentation observations and finishing decisions. A useful record lets you trace what happened and improve the next batch.
Request the readiness checklist
Use TWMI’s Batch-Readiness Checklist to reflect on your process and identify where you need more structure.
Request on WhatsAppChoose your next step
Are you ready to move beyond recipes?
Complete the short readiness form so we can understand where you are now and guide you toward the right next step for the November 2026 cohort.
1. Complete the readiness form
Tell us about your experience and learning goals so we can guide your next step.
2. Arrange your bank transfer
Pay by bank transfer in Trinidad and Tobago dollars (TTD). Tuition is TT$2,500 paid in full or four instalments of TT$700 (TT$2,800 total).
- Bank
- Scotiabank
- Account holder
- Stacy Herbert
- Account type
- Checking Account
- Account number
- 1200510037890
- Branch code
- 12005
- Currency
- TTD
Include your name and “TWMI November 2026” in the payment reference where available. Email or WhatsApp your proof of payment with your name and selected payment option.
3. Receive confirmation
Send proof of payment to TWMI by email or WhatsApp. Your place is confirmed when the required enrolment payment has been received and TWMI confirms your enrolment.
Full payment is required before capstone evaluation and certification.
Unable to join this cohort? Join the 2027 priority list by email.
Wine education for adults 18+. Completing the form is an expression of interest and does not itself confirm enrolment.