'Beijing girl' embraces romance of Bordeaux, wine culture

A few years ago, Feng Wei was 24 and had a good job with an international high-tech firm in China's capital. But suddenly one day, she felt something was missing.

"I looked at what I was doing and suddenly felt I was at the end of my life," she says. "I thought, this is what I will be doing 10 years from now, and 10 years after that, and 10 years after that."

Determined to make a change that would allow her to grow, she started looking at business schools abroad, not sure what she wanted to do. She hit upon Bordeaux in France, but not because she wanted to get into the wine industry.