Grape Wall of China

A China Wine Blog: The Scene in the World’s Largest Market

Tasting time Beijing: St. Supery, South Africa, Mundo Vino, and more

By Jim Boyce After a light summer of wine events, Beijing’s distributors are back in force with a slew of them. Palette Wines will get out a good part of its portfolio for Mundo Vino, a tasting of over 100 wines at the Palette Vino shop in Shunyi on August 18 (RMB150), while the Hilton’s [...]

Grape press: Ch’ng creates translation system for chateaus

Decanter reports that Singapore-based wine publisher, writer, and consultant Ch’ng Poh Tiong has created a new system of “phonetic translation“ that covers the names of leading chateaus. The system will offer a certified phonetic translation of the 61 Crus Classes, as well as other members of the Union des Grands Crus such as Petrus, Cheval [...]

Corked wine in China: The fault with no name

By Frankie Zhao – The thing with corked wine in that Chinese consumers often don’t know it when they taste it. I have attended big tastings, approached a table, realized the wine being served is corked, and seen only an inch of wine left in the bottle. This means a dozen or more people have [...]

Grape Press: Macau wine tax, China as Chile, Hart Davis Hart auction

Some (fairly) recent stories about the China wine scene… – Macau plays the odds, scraps its wine tax As noted, gambling den Macau has followed the lead of Hong Kong, which eliminated its wine tax earlier this year. As Jeannie Cho Lee puts it in this article in Wine Spectator, “the question most asked was, [...]

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  • Grape Wall Contributors


    In alphabetical order (see full list)


    Nicolas Carre
    Sommelier


    Chantal Chi
    Writer


    Yvonne Chiong
    Sommelier, consultant


    Judy Leissner
    Grace Vineyard CEO


    Alain Leroux
    Wine maker, consultant


    Li Demei
    Wine maker


    Huiqin Ma
    Professor


    Campbell Thompson
    The Wine Republic co-owner


    Brian Yao
    Consumer


    Frankie Zhao
    Pro-Wine Training & Consultancy owner


    Jim Boyce
    Consumer, blog administrator