I am lucky enough to have turned a passion into a profession. In 2008, I became the first Asian Master of Wine (MW) and since then, I have written two award-winning books (Asian Palate and Mastering Wine) and became a television host for a weekly wine program on Hong Kong’s TVB Pearl, now in its third successful season. I teach about wine as a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Hotel and Tourism Management and I have the fun job of selecting all the wines onboard for Singapore Airlines. I hold the Certificat de Cuisine from Cordon Bleu and I am a Certified Wine Educator with both the UK’s Wine & Spirits Education Trust and the US Society of Wine Educators. I discovered my love for writing as an undergraduate at Smith College and later on as a graduate student at Harvard University.