Taste-In is proud to extend its services to Asia together with our local partners.
Our services are completely bespoke and our aim is to offer you an event completely adapted to your own requirements whether you would like to offer an intimate tasting at home with friends or wish to organise a large corporate tasting and dinner for VIP clients.
Our UK-based experts do travel regularly throughout the region so we can either organise your event to coincide with their itineraries or we can bring them in for super special events!
Taste-in is privileged to present our prestigious local partners:
Simon Miller-Jones, Taste-In Events Director, Asia
Simon has been living in Hong Kong for over 20 years and has been actively involved in the food and drinks scene for the past 15 years. He has opened and successfully run a range of Hong Kong’s renowned restaurants including SoHo SoHo, Kasbah, The Phoenix and Le Tire Bouchon. A wine enthusiast, Simon has a wealth of experience in organizing wine dinners and tasting events too.
Ch’ng Poh Tiong, Wine Writer and Presenter
Ch’ng is publisher of The Wine Review, the most established wine publication in South-East Asia, Hong Kong and China. In 2000 he published the world’s first “Guide to Bordeaux in Chinese” and the annual “Asian Sommelier’s Guide”. Ch’ng is the wine columnist for Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore’s most popular Chinese daily and his articles have also appeared in China’s Food & Wine, Vino, Vogue and Wine in China magazines.
Ch’ng Poh Tiong has a strong international reputation and is a regular contributor to l’Amateur de Bordeaux of France, UK’s Harpers, World of Fine Wine and Decanter, for which he also writes a monthly column.
Ch’ng is a regional Chairman and judge for Decanter magazine’s World Wine Awards. Founder of Sommelier Seminars and Sommeliers of Asia, he also organized the first-ever sommelier’s seminar in China in 2004.
Ch’ng is an experienced speaker and is renowned and much respected on the international professional wine circuit having addressed audiences in Vienna, Paris, Osaka, Christchurch, Bejing, Wellington and Piacenza. He lectures extensively on wine throughout Asian countries including India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Singapore.
Ch’ng is founder of the Lianhe Zaobao Wine Review Annual Wine Challenge, Singapore’s first independent wine competition. He recently founded the International Congress of Chinese Cuisine & Wine and will be holding the first session in China in 2008. He is fluent in English, Chinese, Cantonese and Fukienese.
Simon Miller-Jones, Taste-In Events Director, Asia.