WSET sees growing demand for wine education on the mainland

More and more Chinese people are burnishing their knowledge about wines and spirits and demand from the country far outstrips others, according to the London-based Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET).

The largest global provider of qualifications related to wines and spirits reported a record list of 94,822 candidates globally in the academic year that finished at the end of July, an increase of 11 percent on the previous year.

Most of the growth came from the Chinese mainland, where candidate numbers were up by 18 percent, to 15,117. A further 3,954 wine and spirits candidates were from Hong Kong, 347 from Macao, and 2,508 from Taiwan.