Crazy Rain: Ningxia Faces Its Biggest Wine Crisis
(A version of this post first appeared in my free grape Wall newsletter. Sign up here.) As citizens across China celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival earlier …
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Pet-nat Power: Ningxia Sparkles in Shenzhen
If you predicted five years ago that dozens of pet-nats would be bubbling up in Ningxia by now, I think most people would have scoffed. …
Free (virtual) wine tours of Ningxia!
[This post first appeared in a December issue of Grape Wall newsletter. Subscribe for free here.) You could say it’s the next best thing to …
Wine deals: ASC partners with Ningxia’s Kanaan
ASC Fine Wines has partnered with Ningxia’s Kanaan winery for exclusive distribution in the hotel and restaurant sector in mainland China. “This collaboration introduces Kanaan …
Ranking spanking: Ningxia tops Napa, Barossa & Burgundy
[This info originally appeared in the Grape Wall newsletter. Sign up here.] There is a chill in the air these days, due to both the …
Catch the Wave: Pre-sales of Ningxia Pet-Nat
Catch the wave! A Ningxia winery is doing pre-sales of its upcoming Malbec and Pinot Noir pet-nats. I’ve written before about the rise of “craft …
Ningxia News: Changyu-Moser XV turns 10
Hard to believe but it’s been ten years since Changyu Moser XV officially opened a sprawling Loire-esque chateau in Ningxia. The number of wineries, wine …
Double Down (Under): Penfolds to release Yunnan-Ningxia wine CWT 521
Australia’s Penfolds is the latest with a crazy expensive* wine from high in the mountains of Yunnan in southern China. “Treasury Wine Estates has taken …
Seize the Clay: Made-in-Ningxia Amphoras Now Available
The past dozen years saw Ningxia’s wines go from being largely unknown to amassing a mountain of contest medals and high scores. And the region’s …
Ningxia terroir: Shocking dinner with Winemaker Deng
The most shocking thing at a recent wine dinner with Deng Zhongxiang wasn’t that he consults for a whopping eight wineries in Ningxia. Or that …