Taste test

The winning team with the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup contest organizers. Chinese universities set to appear in the finals of a global wine competition in France, Cao Chen reports in Shanghai Chinese universities are increasingly organizing wine events, illustrating how the appreciation of this alcoholic beverage is not just limited to the elite in society. A team from Sichuan International Studies University has advanced to the finals of this year's Left Bank Bordeaux Cup, a wine contest for college students across the globe, which will be held in France on June 15. This year, 17 teams from different schools took part in the qualifying rounds of the contest that has two components-a theoretical test consisting multiplechoice questions about Bordeaux's history and culture and a blind wine-tasting test where participants have to identify the grape varieties, and the age and names of the wines. "The objective of this competition is to prepare the next generation of wine lovers because all contestants are from top universities and will be potential consumers of wines," says Emmanuel Cruse, grandmaster of the Commanderie du Bontemps, one of the oldest wine appreciation associations in France.