China abolishes regulations to promote domestic wine production
China’s wine production could see a jump, as the country removes key requirements to set up wineries and production in a move that’s seen to encourage domestic wine industry.
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Weekly digest: Xi Jinping making rare wine trip to Ningxia
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.
Is China turning its back on imported wines?
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?
China’s wine production drops to record low
China’s wine production has dropped to a record now in 2019, which is less than half of the production volume recorded in 2017, the latest figures released from the country have shown.
Xi Jinping served Macron a Chinese wine
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.
Inaugural Singapore Pinnacle Awards gave nod to Chinese wine
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.
ASI to host its next General Assembly in China
The Association de la Sommellerie Internationale (ASI) has announced that it will host the next General Assembly in China, which is expected to give a boost to China’s wine making profile among the world’s best sommeliers.
Exclusive: Silver Heights to become biodynamic
China’s leading winery Silver Heights is in the process of converting its vineyards and winemaking to biodynamic viticulture, Vino-joy.com has exclusively learned.
How are Chinese winemakers reacting to DBR Lafite’s first Chinese wine?
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?
New York Times wine critic: Chinese wine is ‘derivative’
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”.