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 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.
The Shandong High Court upheld previous trial court decision handed down last July that found Yantai Bai Qi Wine Company infringed legal intellectual property rights of Bordeaux, and engaged in unfair competition by selling fake Bordeaux wines.
Bulk wine, the two words that can send shudders down a wine connoisseur’s spine and spoil a Burgundian Vigneron’s appetite, is finding a new life in China, and growing at a speed that can marvel Bordelais even in a challenging climate like last year.