https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/10/21/words-get-in-the-way-the-china-sommelier-contest-and-the-challenge-of-wine-vocabulary/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Sun, 03 May 2009 04:45:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/10/21/words-get-in-the-way-the-china-sommelier-contest-and-the-challenge-of-wine-vocabulary/#comment-9656 Sun, 03 May 2009 04:45:59 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=599#comment-9656 Maybe in future you can send the winning Chinese Sommelier to Europe say London or Paris perhaps and to shadow some of the top Sommeliers there. I did have the pleasure of meeting a Australian Chinese Sommelier who was working for Harvey Nichols.

]]> https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/10/21/words-get-in-the-way-the-china-sommelier-contest-and-the-challenge-of-wine-vocabulary/#comment-3198 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:26:21 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=599#comment-3198 Thanks for your confirmed support. It is a big head-heck even for the grapes’ name. I did try to unify them but none wants to compromise. Therefore in my French wine book, I listed common used translation from HK, Taiwan and Mainland. Now I am working on references more related to Chinese culture. Hope our readers at least can feel the taste that we are talking about…

]]> https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/10/21/words-get-in-the-way-the-china-sommelier-contest-and-the-challenge-of-wine-vocabulary/#comment-3068 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:13:34 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=599#comment-3068 Totally agree with you Chantal. I hope one day Chinese sommeliers will be able to find their own language to express their feeling about wines.
Hopefully, chinese government is willing to consider the diploma of “sommelier” in china. That’s a good start !… Maybe also people like you and very few real sommelier in China should gather to establish a vocabulary which can be used by all chinese, because it seems you still don’t all agree about chinese terms for wine industry….

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