ONLINE Master Class: Adventures on the China Wine Trail
Sunday, May 3, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Tuition: $55 for one student / $75 for two students
Class online via Zoom. Tuition includes 1 bottle of Chinese wine (to be picked curbside at The Wine & Spirit Archive, 3319 SE 50th, prior to class).
Wine made in . . . China? Until recently, for most people, at best, it didn’t exist. Or at worst, as some wine writers complained in their tasting notes, it was reminiscent of “ash tray, coffee grounds, and urinal crust.” Then a 2009 Chinese red won Best Bordeaux Varietal. Could China take over the wine world as well? In this class, Cynthia Howson and Pierre Ly will take you on their journey to explore how Chinese wine went from being ignored and ridiculed to earning gold medals and praise by famous critics in less than a decade.
About the instructors: Pierre and Cynthia met in an elevator in Bangladesh in 2004. Since then, they have followed each other studying economic development and searching for new adventures in culture, food, and wine. Cynthia is senior lecturer in Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Pierre is associate professor and director of International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound, where he teaches a popular course about the Idea of Wine. Cynthia and Pierre are authors of “Adventures on the China Wine Trail: How Farmers, Local Governments, Teachers, and Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the Wine World.”
Sunday, May 3, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Tuition: $55 for one student / $75 for two students
Class online via Zoom. Tuition includes 1 bottle of Chinese wine (to be picked curbside at The Wine & Spirit Archive, 3319 SE 50th, prior to class).
Wine made in . . . China? Until recently, for most people, at best, it didn’t exist. Or at worst, as some wine writers complained in their tasting notes, it was reminiscent of “ash tray, coffee grounds, and urinal crust.” Then a 2009 Chinese red won Best Bordeaux Varietal. Could China take over the wine world as well? In this class, Cynthia Howson and Pierre Ly will take you on their journey to explore how Chinese wine went from being ignored and ridiculed to earning gold medals and praise by famous critics in less than a decade.
About the instructors: Pierre and Cynthia met in an elevator in Bangladesh in 2004. Since then, they have followed each other studying economic development and searching for new adventures in culture, food, and wine. Cynthia is senior lecturer in Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Pierre is associate professor and director of International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound, where he teaches a popular course about the Idea of Wine. Cynthia and Pierre are authors of “Adventures on the China Wine Trail: How Farmers, Local Governments, Teachers, and Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the Wine World.”
Sunday, May 3, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Tuition: $55 for one student / $75 for two students
Class online via Zoom. Tuition includes 1 bottle of Chinese wine (to be picked curbside at The Wine & Spirit Archive, 3319 SE 50th, prior to class).
Wine made in . . . China? Until recently, for most people, at best, it didn’t exist. Or at worst, as some wine writers complained in their tasting notes, it was reminiscent of “ash tray, coffee grounds, and urinal crust.” Then a 2009 Chinese red won Best Bordeaux Varietal. Could China take over the wine world as well? In this class, Cynthia Howson and Pierre Ly will take you on their journey to explore how Chinese wine went from being ignored and ridiculed to earning gold medals and praise by famous critics in less than a decade.
About the instructors: Pierre and Cynthia met in an elevator in Bangladesh in 2004. Since then, they have followed each other studying economic development and searching for new adventures in culture, food, and wine. Cynthia is senior lecturer in Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Pierre is associate professor and director of International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound, where he teaches a popular course about the Idea of Wine. Cynthia and Pierre are authors of “Adventures on the China Wine Trail: How Farmers, Local Governments, Teachers, and Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the Wine World.”