WSET in China

One extraordinary aspect of China's love affair with wine is how popular Wine & Spirit Education Trust courses are there (as raised in this thread on our forum recently). By far the biggest national group of students of the nearly 50,000 around the world who took a WSET course last year, other than those based in the UK, were based in Hong Kong and mainland China. This year the Chinese contingent will almost certainly overtake the British.

As I outlined here, I co-hosted wine tastings and dinners for WSET graduates in both Hong Kong and Shanghai last Wednesday and...