California wine: Gallo’s Cal Dennison on Carlo Rossi products designed for China
By Jim Boyce Californian wine giant E&J Gallo plans to introduce two Carlo Rossi wines designed specifically for China. Both are Cabernet Sauvignon dominant, one hailing from Sonoma County...
View ArticleChina Wine Q&A: Weiley Lu on The Loop, bottles for beginners, WSET and more
~ By Jim Boyce Former restaurant / bar The Loop reopened as a wine shop last night in the Sanlitun area of Beijing. Owner Weiley Lu plans to stock ~150 wines, starting at ~rmb120 per bottle, and to...
View ArticleWinemakers in China: Zhang Jing on studying Down Under, Jia Bei Lan 2011, oak...
~ By Jim Boyce Winemaker Zhang Jing from winery Helan Qing Xue in Ningxia headed to Australia earlier this year for a three-month working holiday. She spent two months at Yering Station in the Yarra...
View ArticleChina wine barrel market: Oaky insights from Amy Lee of cooperage Berthomieu...
~ By Jim Boyce While wine makers, distributors and writers tend to be the key sources for stories on the China scene, talking to the suppliers of bottles, barrels, corks and other crucial items is also...
View ArticleFrom sex toys to Chateau Lafite: Andrew Caillard on China wine documentary...
By Jim Boyce Andrew Caillard, best known as one of Australia’s first Masters of Wine and publisher of Langton’s Classification of Australian Wine, is also associate producer of the China wine...
View ArticleSouth Africa wine in China: Charl Coetzee of Babylonstoren visits Beijing
By Jim Boyce Dating to the seventeenth century as a farm, Babylonstoren — translation: Tower of Babylon — has recently emerged as a wine producer. This 400-hectare operation also grows a wide range of...
View ArticleMaster of Wine candidate from mainland China: Huang Shan on sampling, selling...
By Jim Boyce I recently talked to Huang Shan – the only mainland China citizen in the Master of Wine program – for Wine Enthusiast magazine. The story was published in the July / August issue of the...
View Article“The next ten years will belong to Chinese wines”: Lenz Moser at Changyu...
~ By Jim Boyce “I’m sure, based on what I’ve seen during the past eight years in China, that the next ten years will belong to Chinese wines.” - Lenz Moser, opening ceremony, Changyu Moser XV Winery...
View ArticleBush vines, bush wines: Flying winemaker Brian Wilson on his China experience
~ By Jim Boyce ‘Flying winemaker’ Brian Wilson of Wine Solutions first landed in China in the year 2000, one of many stops on a twenty-year route that has included the United States, France, Bulgaria...
View ArticleChina Wine Q&A: Wine Enthusiast Magazine Executive Editor Susan Kostrzewa
~ By Jim Boyce U.S.-based magazine Wine Enthusiast teamed up with China online retailer YesMyWine last year to publish an e-version of the magazine. In August, a Wine Enthusiast team that included CEO...
View ArticleChina wine word: Lee Yean Yean of Grace on Shanxi, Sonata and ‘beer o’clock’
Lee at last year’s Sonata launch in Beijing. Lee Yean Yean has spent most of the past decade at Grace Vineyard in rural Shanxi province in northern China, far from his native land of Malaysia, and...
View ArticleSelling wine in China: Helene Ponty on the Beijing market
~ By Jim Boyce I recently wrote an article about the Beijing market for an upcoming issue of Wine Business International. It includes insights from a handful of industry players who work for companies...
View ArticleCalifornia wine: Gallo’s Cal Dennison on Carlo Rossi products designed for China
By Jim Boyce Californian wine giant E&J Gallo plans to introduce two Carlo Rossi wines designed specifically for China. Both are Cabernet Sauvignon dominant, one hailing from Sonoma County...
View ArticleChina Wine Q&A: Weiley Lu on The Loop, bottles for beginners, WSET and more
Weiley Lu cracks a bottle at The Loop. ~ By Jim Boyce Former restaurant / bar The Loop reopened as a wine shop last night in the Sanlitun area of Beijing. Owner Weiley Lu plans to stock ~150 wines,...
View ArticleWine Word: Michel Bettane & Thierry Desseauve on Chinese wines, consumer...
By Jim Boyce French wine critics Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve are in China for a week of tastings and classes. I talked to them on Friday in Beijing, just after they finished tasting 180...
View ArticleWine Word: Helan Qing Xue winemaker Zhang Jing on Ningxia’s scene
By Jim Boyce Two years ago, I interviewed Zhang Jing, winemaker at Helan Qing Xue in Ningxia, just after she returned home from a three-month working holiday in Australia. She talked about lessons...
View ArticleTommy Lam on the State of Sommeliers in China
Tommy Lam has organized a steady stream of wine education events in China over the past seven years. His most recent was the fourth annual Young China Sommelier Team Competition last Friday in Qingdao,...
View ArticleChris Roberts on the inaugural Food & Wine Experience at DoubleTree by Hilton...
Many wine fans in Beijing make the annual pilgrimage to the Hilton Food and Wine Experience, which will mark its twentieth anniversary in just a few years time. Chris Roberts, who led the team that...
View ArticleWine word: Charles Simon on ‘Grower’s Champagne’ in China
Charles and Edouard Simon with a few of their bottles in Beijing. We are seeing more and more quality bubbly in Beijing, whether from major players such as France, Spain and Italy or lesser-known ones...
View ArticleAustralian Natural | Ross Tan and Nick van Leeuwen on organic wine,...
Ross Tan and Nick van Leeuwen of Australian Natural have spent most of their first year in business relentlessly promoting their organic and biodynamic wines in China. Here is a quick and dirty earthy...
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