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Wine education booms in China

A massive surge in WSET students in China proves just how important education is becoming across the Mainland as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan when it comes to alcoholic products, particularly wine. Speaking to the drinks business on Th [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

A Frenchman workd in China's wine industry

A romantic gesture by Frenchman Alexander Cros won the heart of his fellow business-course student - and ultimately led him to forge a new and flourishing career on the other side of the world, in China's fast-growing wine industry. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

SA wine ranks sixth in China

South African wines were sixth in order of popularity in the small but growing Chinese market, winemaker and consultant John Weekes, who has been working in the country, said at a seminar in Stellenbosch on Thursday. He said wine drink [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Wine tourism a growing attraction for China’s travellers

When Gregory So signalled the start of Vinexpo Asia-Pacific here yesterday he told the gathered throng the event would be all about three words — China, China, and China. But Hong Kong’s Secretary for Commerce and Economic Dev [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Imported wine market grows rapidly in China

China imported a record 1.27 billion U.S. dollars of bottled wine in 2011, up 94 percent year-on-year, according to figures released Tuesday at the first China Worldwide Wine Summit Forum. Meanwhile the value of imported loose-packed wine [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

China: wine fans start to go for white

Within three years, greater China will spend more money on still wines than the UK, and become the world’s second biggest wine consumer by value, after the US. And along the way, the traditional preference for red in China will b [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

China wines beat Bordeaux in blind tasting

A group of wine experts - five French and five Chinese - ranked the bottles from the remote and sparsely populated Ningxia region above those from Bordeaux at the tasting, held recently in Beijing. The jury sampled five wines from each [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Strong sale in China helps Australian winery

Winemakers are facing a perfect storm of adversity, writes Eli Greenblat. The nation's biggest and best-known family-owned wine companies have posted flat revenue and shrinking earnings for the past financial year, as the sector faces [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

China's wine industry ripens as local thirst grows

Even as Chinese consumers further develop their taste for fine French wines, producers in China itself are upping their game with wines that have made great strides over the last decade, said wine expert Jancis Robinson. Chinese demand [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

China's wine industry ripens as local thirst grows

Chinese demand for imported wine remains massive, but the country is now also among the top five growers of grapevines in the world. "Every time I get to China, I try and get together the best wines that are being made. When I fir [...]

Posted On : Nov, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Let's raise a glass to China's wine

Five thousand miles away from home, looking out across a London skyline, Zhang Jing’s delicate features are animated as she talks about the few days she has just spent in Bordeaux. “Amazing,” she says. “Fantastic v [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

China awash with counterfeit vintage wine

With average consumption just one litre per person per year, China may not have an age-old wine tradition, but it is catching up fast and is expected to become the world's sixth largest wine consumer by 2014. "A good wine show [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Orange winery's export deal to China is a first

Orange County's Barboursville Vineyards will soon be selling wine in China. Gov. Bob McDonnell's office announced the trade agreement yesterday. In May, McDonnell led a trade mission to several Asian countries, including China, an [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Wine production in China to surpass Australia in three years

An industry report has shown that Chinese wine output could outpace Australia by 2014, producing as many as 218 million cases of wine! Various media have picked up the story this week, and talk about things like how China's got its o [...]