Comments on: Grape Wall of China 2.0: John Isacs https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2007/11/13/grape-wall-of-china-20-john-isacs/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:00:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: admin https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2007/11/13/grape-wall-of-china-20-john-isacs/#comment-316 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:00:39 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=82#comment-316 @ Y A,

Taiwan has an excellent wine scene. I remember a number of small wine bars in the area near where I worked (Chunghsiao East Road, Section 4). Each one had a small tasting area and a nice stock of wines, usually with some very unique finds. I continually ran into Taiwanese who were crazy about wine and had been on tours abroad.

Cheers, Boyce

]]> By: Y A Li https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2007/11/13/grape-wall-of-china-20-john-isacs/#comment-231 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:50:42 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=82#comment-231 John is a good choice. Wine education is the way to attract the Chinese to (grape) wine. After all the Chinese do value knowledge. But they are still stuck at the wine-drinking-is-fashionable stage. I did not realize that there is a serious wine market in Taiwan. My (male) relatives in Taiwan drink only beiqiu (clear hard liquer) and no wine at all. Also I read that the Taiwanese make fake wines (particularly icewine), a sign that they have yet to come up to the wine age. The earller Tawanese wine (in the 50s) was indeed a fake. It was made with alcohol, colouring and sugar. I remember the brand name was “Red Dew”. For that matter fake wine were made in Canada during WWII years. And you can buy (and export) fake icewine in Scarborough (east section of Toronto).

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