DWWA 2012: China must prove last year's win 'not a one-off'
China has the weight of expectation on its shoulders at the Decanter World Wine Awards this year, the panel chairman for the region says.
Adam Lechmere is consultant editor of Club Oenologique among other things.
Formerly launch editor of Decanter.com, which he edited until 2011, he has been writing about wine for 20 years, contributing to Decanter, World of Fine Wine, Meininger’s, the Guardian and many others. Before joining the wine world he worked for the BBC, and as a music and film gossip journalist.
China has the weight of expectation on its shoulders at the Decanter World Wine Awards this year, the panel chairman for the region says.
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