Alibaba’s Tmall and JD.com are offering classified growths at prices approaching - and in some cases potentially below - merchants’ sourcing costs, adding fresh pressure to a Bordeaux market already struggling with weak demand and excess inventory. Read More
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Beijing has raised the purchasing limit for mainland tourists visiting Hong Kong and Macau to boost Hong Kong’s sluggish retail sales, but this has raised concerns about incentivizing larger-value, cross-border wine smuggling. Read More
DBR Lafite Group has been awarded nearly RMB 80 million in a landmark lawsuit case against counterfeiters, a record-breaking amount granted to a foreign wine company. Read More
Chinese authorities have dismantled an elaborate fake wine operation in Beijing that involves the production and selling of made-to-order top wines including specific vintages of Bordeaux first growths. Read More
Derided by trade professionals as "Disneyland of fakes", the scale of knockoffs seen at this year's Autumn edition of China Food & Drinks Fair in Tianjin is staggering. We have rounded up some of the worst offenders here from fake DRC to counterfeit Petrus. Read More
Authorities in Shenzhen seized over 4,000 bottles of fine wines including Lafite, Mouton and Penfolds 707 and other high-value products worth more than RMB 18 million (US$ 2.31 million), as smugglers scurried to ferry the goods from tax-free Hong Kong to the mainland. Read More
The "biggest smuggling case" involving "highest value" of fine wines including Opus One, Lafite and Mouton were seized at China borders. Read More
Bordeaux first growth Chateau Lafite Rothschild definitely has the heart and wallet of wine lovers in Asia. Read More