Comments on: Rules and exceptions in China: From *if* there are any good wines to *which* are the best https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2013/09/19/rules-and-exceptions-in-china-from-if-there-are-any-good-wines-to-which-are-the-best/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:24:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Stephen Reiss https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2013/09/19/rules-and-exceptions-in-china-from-if-there-are-any-good-wines-to-which-are-the-best/#comment-297115 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:24:10 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=4286#comment-297115 I was honored to be part of the historic 1996 US Congressional Wine Delegation to China. All I could see then was potential, and now at last you report that it is being realized.

The intervening decade and a half illustrates the axiom that wine is about time. Not just time in oak, not just time in a bottle. It take years for vineyards to mature, it takes decades for winemakers to establish best practices and then it may take that many decades and more before the word gets out.

A look at my impressions from 1996, and the Congressional Record report: http://wineeducation.com/China.html

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