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Economist
In the vinguard: Château Lafite cracks open its first Chinese vintage
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Meininger's Wine Business International (Jim Boyce)
Are Trump’s tariffs hurting American wine in China?
Coverage of China’s extra tariffs on US wine during the current trade war reveals a gap between reality and the claims being made by both media and trade bodies.
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https://jingdaily.com/chinas-wine-market-looks-corked-for-importers-and-retailers-in-2019/
China’s Wine Market Looks “Corked†for Importers and Retailers in 2019
After well over a decade of unbridled optimism, China’s wine market appears to be facing a much more uncertain road ahead. According to a recent piece by Jim Boyce, the 9 percent slide in demand for bottled imports in 2018 has continued into this year, with imports down 14 percent by volume and 20 percent by value in the first six months of 2019.
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Wine Searcher (Jim Boyce)
China Wine Market’s Rocky Road
China's wine market has not aged well of late. Double-digit growth for bottled imports was the norm for a dozen years but 2018 saw volume drop 9 percent and value flatline versus 2017. The slide continued this year, with imports down 14 percent by volume and 20 percent by value the first six months.
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CGTN (Wang Xiaonan)
Reporter’s diary: How trade tensions make my reporting difficult
"Everyday drinking wines and mid-range wines are losing ground," Jim Boyce, a Beijing-based wine blogger, told me.
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The Beijinger (Jim Boyce)
Celebrate “China’s Grape” Around Beijing With the Second World Marselan Day
This week, Hulu, The Merchants, and VinVino will hold events focused on the grape as part of the second World Marselan Day.
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The Globe and Mail (Beppi Crosariol)
Wine, beer and booze words that deserve to disappear
“Almost any wine is going to get an award if entered in enough or strategically chosen contests,†he says.
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Australian Financial Review
Penfolds baijiu-fortified red wine toasts China’s love affair with hard liquor
"I've heard lots of negative wine trade reactions but that's them being snobby about wine, dismissive about baijiu and cynical about Penfolds. To be fair, I also have trouble imagining [Penfolds] chief winemaker Peter Gago enjoying a dram of baijiu before bed, " says Jim Boyce, a Beijing-based wine blogger.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
How Australia’s wine secrets are helping China’s market boom
"Now we are seeing more finesse, more elegance."
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Conde Nast Traveler (Mark Ellwood)
Why China Should Be Your Next Wine Destination
"Per Jim Boyce, the expat wine guru who runs the Grape Wall of China blog, there’s one other noteworthy local producer: the ten-year-old Chateau Yuanshi, with 2,000 acres under vine."
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Wines and Vines (Jim Boyce)
Is China a Long-Term Play for U.S. Wine?
"It sounds crazy but the United States sent less wine to China in 2017 than 2011 despite the imported wine market more than doubling there from 26.8 million to 61.5 million 9-liter cases. The Wine Institute listed 1.58 million cases of exports to China last year, down from 1.79 million cases seven years earlier, a performance as flat as week-old Schramsberg."
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South China Morning Post (AFP)
In China, there’s a new crop of connoisseurs as taste for wine grows
“And then the internet came along, and the smartphone came along, and suddenly consumers had thousands of choices, from lots of countries,†he said. “This put a tremendous amount of pressure on the local companies to get better, because those companies were focused more on marketing than on quality.â€
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Momentum (Jim Boyce)
As recently as five years ago, few people knew much about Ningxia. Health buffs might have sought out its nutritious goji (wolfberries), academics might have studied the Hui people—about a third of the population—and history buffs might have read about the region’s ancient grotto paintings. For the rest of us, it drew a blank.
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South China Morning Post (AFP)
Chinese consumers urged to boycott US firms, but Big Mac, KFC fans unconvinced
wine from the state in 2017. While China’s new 15 per cent tariff on US wine, announced last week, was threatening to make it less price competitive, the nationalistic fervour could deal an even harder blow, Boyce said.
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Los Angeles Times (Don Lee, Jonathan Kaiman)
China retaliates against U.S. tariffs, escalates trade war
The tariffs will effect only a small amount of U.S. wine — one of every 250 bottles produced in the U.S. goes to China, Jim Boyce, a Beijing resident who has been covering the country's wine culture for a decade, wrote on his blog, the Grape Wall of China. "Then again, the issue in China is often less about current buyers and more about potential buyers, the dream of moving toward a market where a billion people one day vociferously scream for Screaming Eagle," he wrote, referencing the esteemed California winery.
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