As Australian wine stands on the cusp of a grand return, the mood within the industry has palpably shifted. How are these changes reflected in the sentiments of wine importers and merchants? Find out in our on-the-ground reporting from Chengdu, at the heart of the country's largest wine and spirits fair. Read More
China Food and Drinks Fair
China's leading wine importer ASC Fine Wines staged its first large-scale portfolio tasting of the year, infusing art, nature with wine during the country's largest wine and spirits fair in Chengdu, as confidence gradually returns to the wine industry, boosting market outlook. Read More
From mainland China's economic hub in Shanghai to southern metropolis Shenzhen and southwestern China's megacity Chengdu, the country will stage a host of long-overdue trade shows. Here are the key ones that should be on your radar. Read More
China's largest wine and spirits fair in Chengdu ended with possibly its weakest performance yet, with exhibitors and visitors reporting the "bleakest show ever", as it also faces a RMB 5 million lawsuit. Read More
China's biggest wine and spirits fair, China Food and Drinks Fair (CFDF), has finally set a date for November merging the spring edition of the fair with autumn edition, after experiencing several delays due to the country's strict zero Covid policy that have disrupted large-scale events. Read More
China's biggest wine and spirits fair reportedly has set new dates after it was twice rescheduled, but lack of international visitors still undermines its reach. Read More
China's biggest wine and spirits fair has yet again been postponed due to sporadic Covid cases found in the southwestern city of Chengdu, highlighting the challenges of organizing physical fairs even though local cases are in single digits. Read More
Here are the key wine and spirits fairs planned for mainland China and Hong Kong for 2022, where organizers are hoping to reboot and bring top-notch experience to wine trade and consumers. 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
China's biggest wine and spirits trade fair has announced that it will postpone its fair schedule from originally planned March to April, after the hosting province issued a directive to ban large-scale, sales-oriented gatherings as part of its precautionary measures following small clusters of infection. Read More