China has announced this week that starting from 15 March, the country will relax travel restrictions for foreigners but there's a catch. Read More
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Guangdong's premium alcohol consumption bucked a prevailing downward trend and managed to report a double-digit growth last year despite the pandemic and consumers' cautious spending. Read More
E. & J. Gallo has partnered with Summergate Fine Wine and Spirits to distribute its luxury brands of Orin Swift®, Louis M. Martini®, Pahlmeyer® and L’usine® for mainland China, the two companies have announced. Read More
Oria Shanghai's wine brand Little Red Riding Hood raised US$20 million in funding, the same amount raised by Vivino in 2018, but why haven't we heard about the wine brand that's changing China's wine market? Read More
Leading Italian wine company, Ethica Wines, has united with China’s first Master of Wine, Fongyee Walker MW, to launch the first-ever Italian wine tourism TV show called “Carpe Vinum”. Read More
A total of 1,903 cases of premium wines including Bordeaux first growths, Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Haut-Brion, Chateau Mouton Rothchild, and Napa's Opus One were nabbed by customs authorities in Shanghai. Read More
Dashui Wine, the leading wine and spirits company in South China, has announced in a letter that it's closing its business for good, due to the pandemic. Read More
OEM-branded wines will need to state clearly on their Chinese wine labels if they are bottled on the shores of China with the newly revised customs regulations.
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Chinese customs authorities have blocked around 20,000 bottles of Australian wines, including Australian flagship wine brand, Penfolds, over what it calls a “labelling issue”, as Australian wine exports to China essentially ground to a halt, after being slapped with 212% anti-dumping tariff. Read More
Ningxia, China's premier wine region in northwestern China, seems to have uncorked more overseas markets in the pandemic year, with a record year of wines exported, according to data released by the province's customs department. Read More