“Master of Wine” Candidate

Holder of WSET Level 4 Diploma in Wines & Spirits (DipWSET)

Plumpton College graduate in Viticulture and Oenology

Former vineyard manager & winemaker in Rioja and Bordeaux

Organised the “International Wine Challenge”

Worked behind the scenes for Jancis Robinson MW

Former fine wine buyer for various UK-based importers

Holder of WSET Level 4 Diploma in Wines & Spirits (DipWSET)

Member of the Circle of Wine Writers

Chinese translator of some of the most authoritative wine books:

• The World Atlas of Wine (7th Edition) written by Hugh Johnson & Jancis Robinson MW

• American Wine written by Linda Murphy & Jancis Robinson MW

• Natural Wine written by Isabelle Legeron MW

Contributor and/or translator for

• Decanter Magazine (Chinese Edition for Taiwan)

• Le Pan Magazine

• The Vintage Magazine

UK & Europe Correspondent for Taiwan’s Wine & Spirits Digest

Leona speaks Mandarin and English fluently

Board Director, British Sake Association

Technical Director, CINVE

Member of the Circle of Wine Writers, Association of Wine Educators, Japanese Culinary Academy

Judges wine/saké/shochu internationally, including IWC, IWS, IWSC, Berlin Wein Trophy, various European Mondials, Concours du Monde and Spirits competitions

WSET Certified Sake Educator (trained in Japan)

Holder of WSET Level 4 Diploma in Wines & Spirits (DipWSET)

Armagnac Diploma, Bureau National Interprofessionnel de l'Armagnac (BNIA)

Diploma with Distinction, Le Cordon Bleu London 

BSc (Hons), ARCS in Botany, Imperial College London