Wine in China 2021

Maskless mingling in Shanghai in autumn 2020

Master of Wine student Young Shi has returned to her native China and reports on the ups and mainly downs of the wine scene there. But wine lovers there may now freely mingle without masks …

Having been in London since December 2019 preparing for my practical MW exam in June (sadly cancelled), I decided in August that it was high time to return to my parents in Shanghai, but only after engaging with the 2020 vintage in Burgundy (see my report on it). The accumulating frustration occasioned by multiple unexpected flight cancellations and the lottery of booking the COVID-19 test...