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
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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
China's biggest and oldest winery, Changyu Pioneer Wine Company, is calling for the removal of consumer tax on wines to boost the country's domestic wine consumption. Read More
While French president Emmanuel Macron gifted Chinese president Xi Jinping a rare Domaine Romanée-Conti 1978 valued around 20,000 euros during his China trip, Xi matched up with arguably one of the best Chinese wines produced today in return. Read More
Bigger bottle size is not particularly popular in China and dining out is not necessarily the most popular occasion for wine consumption in China, as a HKTDC report shows. Read More
Edward Ragg MW, the China-based Master of Wine, has just been announced as the new wine reviewer for Wine Advocate, covering China. Read More
The inaugural Singapore Wine Pinnacle Awards gave a nod to top quality Chinese wines, of which Ningxia in northwestern China nabbed three nominations including two by the country's leading family-owned boutique winery Silver Heights. Read More
Dynasty Fine Wines, the embattled Chinese winery, has resumed trading in Hong Kong on July 29 after more than six years of stock suspension, following investigations of falsifying records and selling spoiled wines in 2013. Read More
After 10 years of waiting, DBR Lafite has finally unveiled its first Chinese wine. How has it been received so far among China's leading winemakers? Read More
Although China now ranks as the world’s 7th biggest wine producer, and the second biggest holder of land under vine, its wines however failed to impress Eric Asimov, wine critic at The New York Times, calling the wines “derivative”. Read More