Spirits Judges

Ho-cheng Yao

Ho-cheng, also known as Kingfisher in the whisky world. He fell in love with single malt in 1995, and became a Certified Malt Maniac in 2004 and, in the same year, founded the first single malt tasting club in Taiwan.


May Wong

May Wong has been a seasoned executive in wines and spirts with 10 plus years of experience in the Hong Kong Domestic and Duty Free Business.


Peter Woo

Peter Woo has been looking after the Marketing Function for a wide portfolio of spirits for Maxxium Hong Kong Ltd for a number of years, covering both brown and white categories.


Ron Taylor

Ron, born in Scotland and a resident of Hong Kong, has been studying wine & spirits for over 30 years and lecturing for at least 12 of those years.


Ronny Lau

Ronny Lau is a wine-loving music critic and music-loving wine critic. He started his wine and spirits columns in 1980s.


Steve Notman

Steve has lived in Mainland China coming upto four year's. Originally working for a leading whisky packaging company, in 2009 he officially launched Whisky Live Shanghai and Taipei.


Steven Lin

Mr. Lin is the owner of L’arrière-cour which is the most professional whisky bar in Taipei, over 400 choices of Scotch single malt whisky, reported by magazines & TV shows (recently Travel & Living).


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