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Roadshow Review: Spain Brings Value Wines to China
Does any nation offer better wine value than Spain? This seems obvious to French bottlers, who import major amounts of Spanish wine each year. Per ...
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Albarino? Soleri? Pinot Iskra? New White Wine Player in China
Attendees of the China Sommelier Summit in Shanghai were treated to a new local white wine producer pouring smack dab in the middle of the ...
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Shanghai, Macau Top China Wine List Awards, Local Producers Rise
Chef Tam’s Seasons in Macau and 8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana in Shanghai emerged as the overall winners from some 300 contenders in this year’s ...
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Q&8 | Wang Yuanzhu on Partnering Rice & Grapes
Coram Collective 集岩酿造 ranks among the most intriguing projects to pop up in China in recent years. Founded in 2023, with production from 2024, this ...
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Q&8 with Yvonne Chiong: Opus One, Ao Yun, Coral Duero & More
From sommelier to export manager to winery owner, Yvonne Chiong can provide insights into China’s wine scene like few others. She has worked for top-tier ...
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Q&8: Ma Huiqin on Marselan as China’s Flagship Grape
As part of a recent Wine Searcher story on the rise of Marselan in China, I talked to Ma Huiqin, a wine marketing expert and ...
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Jia You! Fun Guide to Wine to Asia 2026
Wine to Asia. My favorite trade show. Just one week away. From May 14 to May 16 in Shenzhen. I love this show’s spirit—its quirkiness—and ...
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World Marselan Day 9: All Systems Go!
The ninth World Marselan Day is this Monday, April 27, but we will be uncorking bottles over the weekend in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. See ...
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Hello Ninhao: ‘America’s First Chinese Only Wine Menu’
Chinese restaurant Ninhao in New York has launched what it bills as the first U.S. wine menu focused solely on Chinese brands. Based in Brooklyn, ...
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Q&8: Meet China’s ‘Driving Winemaker’
Deng Zhongxiang aka “China’s Driving Winemaker” is relentlessly on the road while keeping ten clients in Ningxia happy. From stony fields nestled near the Helan ...
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Drops of SunGod: Michel Rolland and China
“Focus on the vineyards.” That was the advice Michel Rolland—the wine world’s most famous consultant—gave during a 2012 Shanghai panel called China Wine Revolution. Rolland, ...
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Q&8: Karl Hauptmann of Chateau Nine Peaks
After establishing wineries in Bulgaria and Romania, financier Karl Hauptmann expanded to China in 2008 by founding Chateau Nine Peaks in Laixi, a city just ...
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Q&8: Ningxia Wine Pioneer Wang Fengyu
“I firmly believed the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains would become a renowned wine region. Without that belief, how could I have endured so ...
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Q&8: China Wine Deep Dive with Shuai Zekun
Shuai Zekun ranks among the keenest observers of the Chinese wine scene. As senior editor for James Suckling, he has not only covered Chile, Argentina, Spain and ...
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Q&8: Kathleen Burk on her new book, “Wine: A Global History”
Kathleen Burk’s path has gone from a mid-century California farm that grew grapes to writing a 600-page work on the world history of wine. Her ...
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China Wine Trends | Black is the New White
Call it ‘black is the new white.’ These past few years, we’ve seen more China producers embrace still blanc de noir / “white from black”, ...
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Q&8: Quirky Grapes with Mountain Wave’s Melvin Li
Li Jing aka Melvin Li left behind the world of finance to found the Ningxia winery Haiyue Renhe with spouse Li Jie in 2016. Set ...