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China wine retail | CHEERS sees change at the top
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …