Aims and Background
Our aim is to bring top quality wine consultancy services to the China market. As Beijing-based consultants we are ideally located to provide local and national advice for the China trade as well as international wine companies. As specialists in wine education and professional tasting since 1999, we also combine over ten years experience in higher education having taught at both Cambridge and Tsinghua Universities.
Contact
Fongyee Walker on fongyee@longfengwines.com or +86 135 2214 7340
Edward Ragg on edward@longfengwines.com or +86 136 9919 3200
BRIEF BIOS
Fongyee Walker
is Beijing’s only Recommended Tutor and Examiner for the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET www.wsetglobal.com).
is Beijing’s only Recommended Tutor and Examiner for the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET www.wsetglobal.com).
- She is the official translator into Chinese of WSET’s Foundation course, gives regular bilingual (Chinese-English) wine seminars and has recently completed her WSET Diploma.
- A former Captain of the Cambridge University Varsity Wine Tasting Team, Walker won ‘Top Taster’ in 2004’s Oxford-Cambridge Wine Tasting Match (http://www.cubwts.co.uk/).
- A dedicated wine educator, she has also taught at Cambridge and Tsinghua Universities as well as judging at London’s International Wine Challenge and the Shanghai International Wine Challenge.
- She is co-author (with Edward Ragg) of The Cambridge University Guide to Blind Wine Tasting (2006), the Dragon Phoenix Wine Blog and the wine column for The Beijinger (originally known as That’s Beijing). She also co-authors with Ragg the wine column for The Financial Times’s new Chinese magazine FT Rui and financial newspaper Caijing Ribao.
Edward Ragg
is brother to Michael Ragg, who runs Burgundy negociant Mischief & Mayhem (www.mischiefandmayhem.com) with Michael Twelftree of Two Hands Wines (www.twohandswines.com).
is brother to Michael Ragg, who runs Burgundy negociant Mischief & Mayhem (www.mischiefandmayhem.com) with Michael Twelftree of Two Hands Wines (www.twohandswines.com).
- He is a former Captain and Coach of the Cambridge University Varsity Wine Tasting Team (http://www.cubwts.co.uk/) and has taught at both Cambridge and Tsinghua Universities.
- Edward holds the WSET Advanced Certificate and the Introductory Certificate from The Court of Master Sommeliers (www.courtofmastersommeliers.org).
- A judge at London’s International Wine Challenge and the Shanghai International Wine Challenge, he is co-author (with Fongyee Walker) of The Cambridge University Guide to Blind Wine Tasting (2006), the Dragon Phoenix Wine Blog and is also a guest blogger for Iberian wine site Catavino (www.catavino.net). With Walker , he co-authors wine columns for The Beijinger (originally known as That’s Beijing) and for Chinese publications such as The Financial Times’s FT Rui magazine and newspaper Caijing Ribao.
- As a professional writer, he publishes poetry and criticism in international publications and is a specialist on the work of Wallace Stevens.
