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China wine retail | CHEERS sees change at the top

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By Jim Boyce | One of China’s most intriguing wine retailers saw change at the top this past month. CHEERS founder and key investor Claudia ...

Coop d’etat | Pigeon Hills symbolizes new shift for Ningxia

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By Jim Boyce | Little is written in English about Pigeon Hills (西鸽酒庄), a new project that might well transform China’s promising Ningxia wine region. ...

Qingtongxia | The growing on focus on Ningxia’s sub-regions

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By Jim Boyce | The focus for many China wine observes has narrowed over the years. Talk once centered on whether “China”, a country of ...

Ten Ningxia wineries | Marselan, music and more in rural China

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By Jim Boyce | I did a whirlwind ten-winery tour of Ningxia in May. After stops at Pushang, known for its Marselan, and Aromes, known ...

Seven-year hitch | Falling U.S. wine sales in a surging China market

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By Jim Boyce | Call it going against the grain. Between 2011 and 2017, bottled wine imports doubled in China as producers like France and ...

So long Press Release | Beijing loses a special wine bar

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By Jim Boyce | The Beijing wine bar scene is thin vis-à-vis its cocktail and craft beer siblings. Many venues struggle from day one to ...

Olden wines | HK$108,000 19th-century European wine dinner set for Hong Kong

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By Jim Boyce | Want to taste a Chardonnay made just after England squeezed Hong Kong from China via the First Opium War? Or a ...

Attention, press | Re press releases re pressed, unpressed grapes

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By Jim Boyce | Why isn’t China a top-five wine producer when it is second only to Spain for vineyard coverage? This question usually leads ...

Reality check | About China’s tariffs on U.S. wines

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By Jim Boyce | Quite a story by Al Jazeera about China’s tariff on U.S. wines, one featuring Napa Valley’s Honig. And, in my opinion, missing a lot ...

Fake, fun, odd and old | The new China wine labels page

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By Jim Boyce | Fake, fun, odd and old. I just launched a page focused on curious wine labels spotted in China. Most of the photos ...

Wine and spirit | TWE teams with key baijiu brand Luzhou Laojiao in China

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By Jim Boyce | Two huge alcohol brands are partnering in China—Australian producer Treasury Wine Estates and local baijiu giant Luzhuo Laojiao. Luzhou Laojiao will ...

In a pig’s ear? Adventures in pairing wine and Chinese food

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By Jim Boyce | There is trouble at table five. A group of experts try a dozen wines with spicy shredded pig’s ear to decide ...

60 months, 60 photos | Changyu-Moser XV turns five in Ningxia

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By Jim Boyce | Changyu-Moser XV opened its stunning Loire-esque facility in Ningxia five years ago today. The project pairs Changyu, China’s oldest and biggest producer, ...

The full Ponty | A family winery tells all about selling in China

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By Jim Boyce | Six years, sixty cities, thousands of ganbeis and a master’s degree worth of lessons. When it comes to planting a family ...

Wine and baijiu | Did Penfolds borrow our April Fool’s joke!?

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By Jim Boyce | Is Treasury Wine Estates following this blog!? Or a higher-up at Penfolds? Maybe Peter Gago? Because a new wine-baijiu blend called ‘waijiu‘ ...

Bottle stock | Grace Vineyard lists on Hong Kong Stock Exchange

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Jim Boyce | Grace Vineyard has gone public. In terms of being listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, that is. Its status is official under ...

Rawson’s Retreat advances | Will it cause a ‘Yellowtail effect’ in China?

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By Jim Boyce | Will Rawson’s Retreat do in China what Yellowtail did in the United States a decade ago, namely, associate Australia with relatively ...

WinItaly? Simone Incontro on a ‘comeback’ for Italian wine in China

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By Jim Boyce | Italy has struggled to gain wine market share in China for the past decade and Shanghai-based Simone Incontro of Veronafiere is ...

Bling dynasty | China wines win 131 medals at Concours Mondial

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By Jim Boyce | Chinese wines won 131 medals, including five “grand golds”, at the Concours Mondial in Beijing this month. The results, published today, also ...

Next-wave Marselan | A bunch of Ningxia wineries will unleash this grape

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By Jim Boyce | For the past dozen years, we’ve heard a growing buzz in China about the grape Marselan (马瑟兰)—that’s one reason I started ...

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