Q: Which wine region has 80,000 acres of vines on the edge of a desert? A: Ningxia, China. Yes, Ningxia wine has been getting some media attention this year and rightly so: eye-popping growth wit...
https://www.drvino.com/2015/11/09/ningxia-wine-labeling-laws/
More acres of grapes are now in China than France. The total vineyard area in China is 1.97 million acres (799,000 hectares) according to new stats presented yesterday in Paris by the OIV, the In...
https://www.drvino.com/2015/04/28/vineyard-area-china-vaults-past-france/
China is waving a broken wine bottle in international negotiations: in retaliation for EU tariffs of 11.8% against Chinese solar panels, Chinese authorities have threatened to place trade barrier...
Simon Staples, aka @BigSiTheWineGuy who is sales director and Bordeaux buyer for Berry, Bros & Rudd, tweeted this photo. Notice anything amiss? Here were his comments: Romanee Conti and Lafite to...
https://www.drvino.com/2012/06/26/drc-lafite-languedoc-china/
Who wields the most influence on wine in China? As the year of the dragon kicks off soon, I put this question to various China insiders. Ian Ford, partner at Summergate, a leading wine importer t...
https://www.drvino.com/2012/01/17/chinas-top-wine-influencer/
Sun Xitai, a 62-year-old businessman in China has been sentenced to life in prison. His crime? Bringing about $7 million worth of wine, mostly Bordeaux, from Hong Kong to mainland China and faili...
https://www.drvino.com/2012/01/13/chinese-wine-smuggler-prison/
The Mayans forecast a cataclysmic finish for 2012. My crystal wine glasses are not as clear, so instead of forecasts, I ask twenty questions relevant to the wine world in 2012. Will dogmatism die...
https://www.drvino.com/2012/01/03/will-china-buy-more-foreign-wineries-wine-questions-2012/
SIPPED and SPIT: saber rattling Jim Budd posts more revelations about Pancho Campo and Jay Miller, including emails involving a $31,000 tasting for the wines of Madrid that the regional body coul...
https://www.drvino.com/2011/12/01/madrid-tragedy-yao-masa-byob/
What has hints of red fruits, leather, tobacco, and tulips? Why, the wine investment market! Elin McCoy reports from Hong Kong that a fund there will lend up to $641,000 (USD) for investing in wi...
https://www.drvino.com/2011/11/29/wine-tulips-china-hong-kong/
I joked yesterday on Twitter that no blog post seems complete today without mentioning either China or Lafite! So indulge me in one more post about the wine flavor of the month/year/decade…. Ne...
https://www.drvino.com/2010/12/14/china-wine-shandong-lafite-castle/
Jim Boyce, a Canadian residing in Beijing and the author of the Grape Wall of China blog, tweeted this the other day: exhausted after 3 bottles of Lafite but that’s a typical Beijing night (not...
https://www.drvino.com/2010/12/09/red-wine-coke-china-spain/