Fiona withholds journalism experience specialized in wine for more than a decade, based in Paris and Beijing, has established her expertise largely through visiting wine producing regions, and a regular invitee of Découverte en Vallée du Rhone, Grands Jours de Bourgogne, Nebbiolo Prima. She also fulfills her jury duty for international and domestic wine competitions. As a result, she is amongst one of the leading wine journalists in China.

Emma Taylor is the General Manager of Vineyard Plants, a subsidiary of Villa Maria Estate. Emma is also the current chair of VINA the New Zealand Viticulture Nursery Association. Vineyard Plants produces high quality vines for Villa Maria and its growers and some open market clients that are certified to the New Zealand Winegrowers Grafted Grapevine Standard.

In 2007, she co-founded Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting, a leading wine and spirits education and consulting institution. In 2014, it became the first institution in China to offer a face-to-face WSET4 certification course. Fongyee is a professional wine educator, consultant and WSET certified educator. She became the Master of Wine in September 2016 and continues to serve as judge in international wine competitions.

A reference for both wines and spirits industry, covering a wide range of topics from legal news to distribution to consumer trends, impactful and influential. Vino-joy.com is created with the goal to become the most authoritative and trustworthy news website on Asia and China’s wine market. Her reporting on the region’s drinks industry led her to win Young Communicator of the Year Award by Cathay Pacific International Wine & Spirits Awards in 2017.

With 24 years’ experience in the drink business, Kathie Wang is well versed in brand marketing and public relations strategies. Pernod Ricard has initiated a powerful and complete sustainability and responsibility program covering areas from responsible consumption, environment protection, sustainable packaging, to promoting an eco-friendly lifestyle in China. She leads the team to promote the initiatives across Asia, such as collaboration with Tsinghua University's Institute for Global Sustainable Development.

Wine educator, member of FIJEV (an international association of wine writers), ambassador of VDP, consultant of Italian ONAV in Greater China. She was the first one to promote VDP in China in 2010. Since then Rachel wrote lots of articles and delivered trainings for VDP wines and German wines. She also translated educational materials into Chinese to help promote German wines and regions. Rachel has been teaching WSET since 2012 and started the course on German wine since 2014.

She has successfully created a synergy between content-driven social platform and e-commerce to address to younger generation of wine consumers in China. She has over 1million followers and ran a membership wine e-commerce / service platform.

The first Brandy Master Blender in China, Ms. Zhang has been the magic hands behind reputable Chang Yu Brandy: over 10 SKUs were created by her and team. Her innovation and patented fermentation method and a number of research papers have been inspiring for women in spirits business.  She created with the team 17 brandy products while several of the flagship SKUs won international medals. Meanwhile, she is the author of various papers and books on Brandy.

As a professional viticulturist, Maria has over 20 years’ experience in the field and accumulated knowledge over China wine regions from Xinjiang to Hebei. Her passion into R&D led her to successfully establishing the nursery in Huailai region. Maria has a professional viticulture management team of 150 people who share the same passion. Under her leadership the team adheres to the dream and philosophy of Canaan Winery, which was awarded “Best Vineyard Management” by RVF China in 2016.

Since 2012, Fangyuan has joined Chateau Margaux as Asia’s Ambassador. She succeeded in building brand awareness and image for Margaux in Great China through trade / consumer events as well as creating links between the wines with women in art and fashion. She also helped international students with internship opportunities and visits and hosted a number of charity dinners.