James Teng
James Teng is the head sommelier at Middle House Shanghai,located in the bustling Jing’an district.The hotel, part of Swire Hotels, offers guests elegant atmosphere and delicate dining experiences.
Graduated with a degree in landscape and urbanism, Teng’s sommelier career started in the Hakkasan Group in London before eventually relocating to Shanghai. By the time he moved to the Middle House in 2019, Teng was head of wine for Asia at the Hakkasan Group.
In 2023, the wine list Teng curated for Frasca, a restaurant of the Middle House, won China’s Wine List of the Year Awards (mainland China), and he was honoured with the Outstanding Sommelier Awards (mainland China). This recognition was not new to Teng; in 2016, his wine list for Hakkasan won China’s Wine List of the Year, and Teng was recognized as the outstanding sommelier of the year for mainland China.
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