WhenI wasinvitedto visit east China’s Shandong Province for a wine festival held on September 23-26,I erroneously believedI would be drinking beer in the coastal city of Qingdao, home of world-famous Tsingtao beer. After all, the character jiu, meaning al-cohol, is often mistakenly translated as “wine,” although that term is specifc to grapes, as it is derived from the Latin word vino, and shares the same linguistic root as “vine.”