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Meet Julien Boulard aka "Zhulian", one of China's most well-known French wine professionals with over 40,000 followers on Weibo. We are truly thrilled to welcome Julien, a Frenchmen of passion and talent, to bring the French Wine Scholar study & certification program to Nanning and Guangzhou. The first sessions will be announced shortly on Zhulian Wines' Weibo page. Q1. Julien, give us a brief background on your history in wine and your wine school After completing a Master in International Affairs (which I took because they offered intensive Chinese classes), my first job was for a wine importer located in a small Chinese city called Nanning. Well, small as in six million habitants…! The boss obviously offered me the job because I was French, and this particular feature could help bring some “authenticity” to his company. I wasn’t keen on being just a white face who could speak Chinese, so I decided that I had to study wine to add another string to my bow.

This article has been published in partnership with World of Fine Wine and Wine Scholar Guild.  Beyond the familiar terrain of fine wine, a new horizon is emerging in the most unexpected of places. As the Bhutan Wine Company releases its first wines—the first ever made in the Himalayan country—Chris Howard reports on how a remarkable project came to be, and what it promises for the future of wine and sustainability.