Asia's first Masters of Wine

I have not caught up with all the results (see below for an update) but I am absolutely thrilled to report that Jeannie Cho Lee MW, pictured here, can now put those precious letters M and W after her name. She passed the exams last year but you may not call yourself a Master of Wine nowadays unless you have written a dissertation on some wine-related topic and had it passed by the IMW's arcane vetting procedure. And, it should be said, that some people pass the exams but do not manage to complete their dissertations to the IMW's satisfaction. (I was reminded of this when reading th recent thread on wine tasting and perception started by David Schildknecht. This was the proposed focus of a very interesting dissertation but the topic did not find favour with the IMW.)