From the Wall Street Journal March 20, 2010
By Stan Sesser
Open the suede-covered case and there's another box inside, this one made of cork. That second box contains a black silk bag with gold decorations. Alongside is a rolled-up scroll, with the signature of the chairman of the board, telling you in both English and Chinese that the $586 you've just spent has bought you a "miracle."
After all this, the bottle of wine inside the silk bag could only be an anticlimax. The label just says that it's a Merlot from Dynasty, one of China's three giant wine producers. There's no information on the vineyard or its location. There's no vintage date on the bottle. Asked about the pricing, He Rujun, Dynasty's East China general manager, said: "Merlot is so hard to grow in China. Dynasty spent 20 years to successfully grow it. Also, it was personally developed by our chairman and the quantity is limited."
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
China's wine industry in pictures
The BBC recently posted an article that showed some photos of wineries in China. But the better photos are at Janis Miglav's blog! Janis will be accompanying Chine Wine Tours for the Photographer's Tour of China in September.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
China's wine industry sees opportunity amid global downturn
From People's Daily Online
China's wine industry is having a golden opportunity to boost export as consumers worldwide are seeking wine that tastes fine but costs less, Chinese wine expert said Friday.
"The year 2010 can be a golden opportunity for China's wine export as less expensive wine products are becoming more favored by the international consumers as a result of the global economic downturn," said Wang Yancai, president of China Alcoholic Drinks Industry Association (CADIA).
Winery is a sunrise industry in China with steadily rising domestic and world demand, Wang added. China's wine production in the first 11 months of 2009 grew to 812,200 kiloliters, a year-on-year rise of 21.8 percent.
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China's wine industry is having a golden opportunity to boost export as consumers worldwide are seeking wine that tastes fine but costs less, Chinese wine expert said Friday.
"The year 2010 can be a golden opportunity for China's wine export as less expensive wine products are becoming more favored by the international consumers as a result of the global economic downturn," said Wang Yancai, president of China Alcoholic Drinks Industry Association (CADIA).
Winery is a sunrise industry in China with steadily rising domestic and world demand, Wang added. China's wine production in the first 11 months of 2009 grew to 812,200 kiloliters, a year-on-year rise of 21.8 percent.
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Friday, December 25, 2009
China's Wine Market
Heard on the Street: China's Wine Market
Is it time to pair your Dim Sum with Bordeaux? Heard on the Street Asia editor Mohammed Hadi talks to China columnist Andrew Peaple about opportunities in China's thriving wine market.
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Is it time to pair your Dim Sum with Bordeaux? Heard on the Street Asia editor Mohammed Hadi talks to China columnist Andrew Peaple about opportunities in China's thriving wine market.
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Vineyard Voyager - Marc Curtis of China Wine Tours
Raised in a military family that was constantly on the move, American Marc Curtis grew up appreciating travel and different cultures. A career in TV production furthered his passion for experiencing new places and after extensive travels around the world he arrived in China four years ago to set up a business in the domestic tourism industry. Today he operates China Wine Tours, a company that organizes wine tours in China. We spoke with him last month about his background, business and favorite Chinese wines.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Republic of Wine
Chinese vineyards are the toast of Shanghai’s finest restaurants, and they may soon come to a cellar near you.
By Charles Foran
At a wine tasting on Shanghai’s famous waterfront, the future of Chinese wine is as bright as the chardonnay.
Through the windows of the seventh-floor dining room at the elegant M on the Bund, Shanghai’s past, present and future appear within the same frame. There is the quaint colonial downtown below and the bustling streets running along the Huangpu River. Across the river glows the Pudong skyline, a lurid vision of a 21st-century Asian cityscape. Joining me this evening to nose, swirl and sip the finest on offer from the Chinese wine industry are the owner of the restaurant, Michelle Garnaut, an Indian essayist and a British poet. We’re here for the Shanghai International Literary Festival, which M on the Bund has hosted for several years.
The Australian Garnaut opened her elegant establishment in 1999, and it has quickly become the most admired restaurant along this historic promenade. Appropriately, the Chinese wines that Garnaut’s restaurant manager, Marcus Ford, assembles also belong to the new century.
Gathering to taste Chinese vintages is itself something of a novelty. Though the Chinese have been drinking wine for thousands of years, only in the last two decades have tastes strayed from the indigenous sweet syrups or the potent liquor known as baijiu, which has toppled many a foreign guest at state banquets. An emerging middle class is developing a palate for the relatively sour Western-style reds and whites. That growing affluence, like the appetite for local vintages, has already made China one of the biggest wine producers in the world. Many convenience stores now stock the cabernets, merlots, chardonnays and pinot noirs that are produced on the approximately 160,000 acres of vines cultivated nationwide.
Full story at EnRoute Air Canada
By Charles Foran
At a wine tasting on Shanghai’s famous waterfront, the future of Chinese wine is as bright as the chardonnay.
Through the windows of the seventh-floor dining room at the elegant M on the Bund, Shanghai’s past, present and future appear within the same frame. There is the quaint colonial downtown below and the bustling streets running along the Huangpu River. Across the river glows the Pudong skyline, a lurid vision of a 21st-century Asian cityscape. Joining me this evening to nose, swirl and sip the finest on offer from the Chinese wine industry are the owner of the restaurant, Michelle Garnaut, an Indian essayist and a British poet. We’re here for the Shanghai International Literary Festival, which M on the Bund has hosted for several years.
The Australian Garnaut opened her elegant establishment in 1999, and it has quickly become the most admired restaurant along this historic promenade. Appropriately, the Chinese wines that Garnaut’s restaurant manager, Marcus Ford, assembles also belong to the new century.
Gathering to taste Chinese vintages is itself something of a novelty. Though the Chinese have been drinking wine for thousands of years, only in the last two decades have tastes strayed from the indigenous sweet syrups or the potent liquor known as baijiu, which has toppled many a foreign guest at state banquets. An emerging middle class is developing a palate for the relatively sour Western-style reds and whites. That growing affluence, like the appetite for local vintages, has already made China one of the biggest wine producers in the world. Many convenience stores now stock the cabernets, merlots, chardonnays and pinot noirs that are produced on the approximately 160,000 acres of vines cultivated nationwide.
Full story at EnRoute Air Canada
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