By Jim Boyce,

Break out the baseball bats wine glasses as China World Hotel gets set to hold The World Series of Wine. The series of six monthly wine dinners starts this month and is the brainchild of Danny Kane, manager of the hotel’s Aria restaurant. All wines will be supplied by Summergate. According to the hotel:

Each dinner is very exclusive with only 18 seats available, the collection of wines for each dinner is very special and in a lot of cases, feature wines which are very difficult to obtain in China. In a couple of cases, wines will be tasted blind.

They don’t come cheap. Those interested can either buy a ticket for an individual dinner or get all six for RMB9,888, about a 20 percent discount. Here are the dinners:

August 31
Rated 95 Plus Wine Spectator (RMB1688)

September 25
New Zealand Chardonnays and Pinots vs Burgundy Classics (RMB1788)

October
The Tour of Italy (RMB1388)

November
The Grange Challenge (RMB1588)

December
Hidden Gems (RMB1388)

January
The Ultimate Dinner: The Judgement of Aria (RMB4888)

The dinners start at 7 PM. To book space, contact Danny Kane at danny.kane@shangri-la.com / 6505-2266, extension 36.

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