06.09.08
Winery visit: Chateau Bolongbao
By Jim Boyce
I again joined Marc Curtis of China Wine Tours for a visit to Chateau Bolongbao, this time with a TV crew. My past posts covered Bolongbao’s vineyard, fermentation room, and cellar, and of the grape stomping held during a fall visit with the Beijing Wine Club. Here are a few from last Saturday’s visit:
The beginnings of a future vintage
of Bolongbao wine (photos: J. Boyce)
Translator and ex-Chateau Bolongbao
marketing director Tony Chen.
China Wine Tour’s Marc Curtis and Chen
in the fermentation room.
Chateau Bolongbao is in Hebei Province,
just outside Beijing
Rose bushes at the vineyard’s edge
act as early indicators of disease.
A hilltop view of Bolongbao taken during
our March visit.