From hot pot restaurants Haidilao to family eateries to Michelin-starred Chinese restaurants, bookings are full towards end of June to early July, but some caution it will take up to 3 months to return to pre-lockdown level. Read More
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Australia's wine trade body Wine Australia has announced that it will close its China office in Shanghai, after exports to its once most profitable market plunged under China's punitive tariffs. Read More
Tesla beer or Tesla soda anyone? Not so fast. The US electric carmaker never made such drinks, but a Chinese company has, and now the controversial drinks are at the center of a RMB 5 million legal dispute between Tesla and its maker. Read More
China's wine and spirits imports in Q1 were pummeled by Covid, but with monthlong lockdown in Shanghai and rumors of a similar lockdown in Beijing, is the worst yet to come? Read More
Latest China Customs data shows the continual decline of China's wine imports, as the ‘zero covid policy’ upheld by the country with 52 million wine drinkers continues to weigh down on demand. Read More
China's intense lockdown and curbs have shown immediate effects on the country's lucrative wine market, especially in three of the affluent cities in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Dongguan that are engines for the country’s wine consumption, as the country holds on tight to its ‘zero-Covid policy’. Read More
Telford Shanghai has sealed a deal with California’s wine giant E&J Gallo to become the sole importer for two of its top selling volume brands, Carlo Rossi and Dark Horse, in mainland China. Read More
Kerry Wines, one of the leading wine companies in Greater China, has become the latest target of China’s quickened efforts to regulate online contents and ads that promote wine’s health properties. Read More
A court in Shanghai has recently prosecuted three fraudsters who churned out and sold counterfeit Bordeaux wines worth RMB 1.4 million (US$220,174). Read More
China's imported wines are going on a downward spiral in 2021 and market outlook for 2022 is not looking brighter. Read More