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Wine jobs in China: The Loop wine shop in Bejing seeks manager
By Jim Boyce Soon-to-open wine shop The Loop in the Sanlitun-Gongti area seeks a manager. The position includes dealing with walk-in and established customers, arranging deliveries, organizing tastings and, no doubt, sampling quite a few bottles. The i...
By Jim Boyce Soon-to-open wine shop The Loop in the Sanlitun-Gongti area seeks a manager. The position includes dealing with walk-in and established customers, arranging deliveries, organizing tastings and, no doubt, sampling quite a few bottles. The i...
Attn F&B managers in China: ‘Sommelier’ to be an officially recognized profession
By Jim Boyce China is on the verge of designating “sommelier” – “新职业” in Chinese — an official profession, says Tommy Lam, a driving forces behind the initiative. Lam says it has been a three-year project with the D...
By Jim Boyce China is on the verge of designating “sommelier” – “新职业” in Chinese — an official profession, says Tommy Lam, a driving forces behind the initiative. Lam says it has been a three-year project with the D...
South hemisphere smackdown: Australia vs New Zealand blind tasting in Beijing
By Jim Boyce Call it the wine equivalent of Crowded House versus Air Supply, Edmund Hillary versus Steve Irwin, The Conchords versus Dame Edna and Les Patterson, the sheep versus the bilby. New Zealand and Australia wines will square off in a blind tas...
By Jim Boyce Call it the wine equivalent of Crowded House versus Air Supply, Edmund Hillary versus Steve Irwin, The Conchords versus Dame Edna and Les Patterson, the sheep versus the bilby. New Zealand and Australia wines will square off in a blind tas...
Best wine experience in Beijing? My three nominees for the Time Out awards
~ By Jim Boyce I sat on the judges panel for the Time Out Beijing food awards this year and one of the categories up for grabs was “best wine experience“. Beijing is tricky as a wine city. A superb range of wine is available here, top rest...
~ By Jim Boyce I sat on the judges panel for the Time Out Beijing food awards this year and one of the categories up for grabs was “best wine experience“. Beijing is tricky as a wine city. A superb range of wine is available here, top rest...
Jancis Robinson Q&A: On China’s wines, Cabernet Gernischt, ‘American Wines’ & more
~ By Jim Boyce English wine writer Jancis Robinson has been visiting China and its wineries for more than a decade, with her most recent trip being to Ningxia last fall to taste ~50 wines and tour the region’s operations. This week I asked her a...
~ By Jim Boyce English wine writer Jancis Robinson has been visiting China and its wineries for more than a decade, with her most recent trip being to Ningxia last fall to taste ~50 wines and tour the region’s operations. This week I asked her a...
