Germany’s wine industry is doubling down on China and betting big on lighter, easy-drinking styles to win over a new generation of consumers. Read More
Shanghai
In 2025, nearly 60% of all imported wine entered China through just Shanghai and Guangdong—revealing a market that is shrinking, concentrating and quietly reorganising.
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Wine Universe By Little Somms — often described as the pioneer of China’s modern wine-bar scene — has announced it will close its Shanghai flagship next month, marking the end of an era for a venue that once helped ignite the wine-bar boom in Shanghai and beyond. Read More
Despite China’s prolonged slump in wine consumption, Western Australia’s debut showcase in Shanghai told a very different story: nearly 400 buyers, importers and retailers packed into two days of tastings and briefings, signalling that trade enthusiasm for quality wines remains far stronger than the headlines suggest. Read More
Two restaurant employees in Shanghai have been sentenced to jail after repeatedly swapping customers’ genuine bottles of Moutai with counterfeits, exposing a new vulnerability in a practice many diners once considered the safest way to avoid fake liquor. Read More
ASC Fine Wines has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone operator in an ambitious move to redefine how fine wines enter and access the China market. Read More
Longtime wine importer Shanghai Mercuris Wines Co., Ltd. has denied rumours of its closure after speculation spread across the trade, calling the claims “nonsense.” Read More
David He, founder of Wine App - often dubbed “China’s Vivino”- believes the growth of domestically produced wine is the best thing that could happen to imported wines. Here's why. Read More
At a Shanghai ceremony presided over by the city’s mayor, global giants from aerospace to fashion pledged US$3.68 billion to deepen ties with China — and ASC Fine Wines stood out as the only wine company making a bold new bet. Read More
There are no tastings, no labels on display. Instead, the show offers a look at the world that wine once moved through: trade, agriculture, correspondence, and marketing. Read More