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Chinese wine investors worry as rare vintages drop in value

SHANGHAI - Tipsy Chinese investors drunk on the legend of Lafite wine have been rudely shocked by the cold economic fact that what goes up can come down. Helping to push the prices of branded wine up by an average of 30 percent in ea [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Lady Gaga Dress, Chinese Penis Potion Mark Wine World in 201...

No aspect of popular culture achieves real acceptance until it’s been incorporated into one of Lady Gaga’s outfits, so I was gratified to see her decked out as a wine bottle with cork hat and wineglass gloves on Saturday Night [...]

Posted On : Dec, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Australian winemakers tempt Chinese palates to secure future

Australian winemakers are setting up replica cellar doors in China and running wine clubs and tastings as they intensify efforts to win Chinese buyers in a bid to offset shrinking demand in their traditional British and U.S. markets. T [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Illegal Sale of Rice Wine Thrives in Chinese Enclaves

The restaurant looks like so many others in the roiling heart of Chinatown, in Lower Manhattan: a garish sign in Chinese and English, slapdash photos of featured dishes taped to the windows, and extended Chinese families crowding around t [...]

Posted On : Jul, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Wine industry collaboration 'will crack Chinese market'

New Zealand's wine industry must mount a joint effort if it is to crack the Chinese market, an Australian consultant has told wine exporters. Frank Gibson, an experienced adviser to businesses entering China, told an Auckland workshop [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Chinese wine in numbers

China first started making wine from grapes more than 4,600 years ago but modern wine production started in 1892 when Zhang Bishi, a Chinese diplomat, imported some 500,000 vines to start a vineyard in Yantai. His company, now called Chan [...]

Posted On : May, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Chinese Wine Student Wins Travel Scholarship to Australia

The winner of the Wine Australia Travel Scholarship in association with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) in greater China has been announced. Mr Jim Yang from Beijing will be awarded the prestigious Scholarship, which wa [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Chinese billionaires splash out on fine wine

He Wei Qi, a businessman from eastern China's Zhejiang province, says he routinely pays more than 30,000 yuan ($US4,500) for a bottle of wine to entertain guests. “A price tag of more than a million yuan a bottle - that do [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Chinese Pip Brits To Top Bordeaux Wine List

Changing tastes among China's growing middle class have helped the country become the leading importer of Bordeaux wines.Bordeaux sales to China have doubled every year for the last five years, according the Conseil Inter-professione [...]