china
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- November 24, 2016
If we look back to 2006 and consider how mainland China’s wine market has changed, it’s first worth considering just how young that market was. By 2006, the imported wine market was barely 15 years old and Chinese wine production, though expanded in the 1980s, had not yet made the leaps in quality that some […]
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- September 20, 2016
China’s president, Xi Jinping, greeted world leaders at the G20 summit with a banquet of local cuisine and Chinese wines. A Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 and a Chardonnay 2012 from the Beijing-based Chateau Changyu AFIP Global were the wines paired with the traditional Hangzhou cuisine. ‘Sweet and sour mandarin fish’ and ‘orange-flavoured crab meat’ were among the […]
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- April 10, 2016
China is again Bordeaux’s top export market, show the latest customs figures. But how has this happened? Terry Xu analyses the revival of a classic region in the Chinese market. I know—some wine lovers in China may frown upon this title, especially if they already knew that I have been a passionate supporter of Bordeaux. […]
