Chateau de Pic, a Chinese-owned Bordeaux estate in Cadillac, has been sued by its local employees after abruptly firing its staff and failing to pay five months of salary, bringing the winery’s poor management and dire financial situation into the forefront. Read More
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The "real brights spots" driving China's wine market growth pre-Covid will return once the market normalizes, says IWSR CEO. Read More
Remember when people used to say that beer tasted like urine? Some people in China started spreading rumors that it doesn't just taste like it but is made out of it. Read More
The goal for the nation-wide promotion tour is to empower wine trade to gain more resources to communicate and promote wines in China. Read More
With coronavirus brutalizing China’s wine sales in the first few months of the year, much-anticipated recovery to pre-Covid level will likely arrive in the last quarter of the year, according to sommeliers and importers interviewed for the article. Read More
A wine merchant in Central China’s Jiangxi province has been sentenced to one year in jail for selling fake Penfolds, the popular wine brand that has become a household name in China. Read More
Some of China's top wineries today including Silver Heights, LVMH's Ao Yun, Grace Vineyard and Puchang Vineyard will answer to that question on July 7. Read More
For this week, here are the headlines making buzz in China's wine market: fake Bordeaux wines in Shanghai, Beijing's fresh outbreak and key personnel changes in China's wine trade. Read More
Here are your essential readings on China's wine market this week: Chinese president Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Chinese wine region Ningxia last week, while Beijing is pushing to build Hainan as a free trade port like Hong Kong. Read More
A campaign that urges Chinese to drink Chinese wine is under way. With imported wines plunging and growing nationalist sentiment, is China turning its back on imported wines? Read More