Month: October 2013

~ By Jim Boyce It seems every grape, like every dog, will have its day.* For Malbec, that date is April 17. For Chardonnay, May …

~ By Jim Boyce The wines Pernod Ricard makes in Ningxia under the lable Helan Mountain are both fruitful and frustrating. On one hand, much …

~ By Jim Boyce My third “Made in China” column for The Beijinger magazine takes a cue from Halloween and looks at vampires, zombies, body-snatchers …

~ By Jim Boyce The origins of the grape called Cabernet Gernischt — closely associated with and widely used in China — has been a …

~ By Jim Boyce Why stumble home from the Hilton Beijing if you can saunter up to the presidential suite? (Yeah, that’s a rhetorical question.) …

~ By Jim Boyce The annual Food & Wine Experience at Hilton Beijing is impressive both for its track record — sixteen years and counting …

~ By Jim Boyce Free samples. Discounts. Outraged French wine experts. Inebriated shoppers crashing into stuff. Passionate debate over the wine with the bird on …

~ By Jim Boyce Expect China-based wine importer and distributor East Meets West to add local winery Qingdao Great River Hill to its portfolio, say …

~ By Jim Boyce Winemakers from Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and the United States visited China last year as part of …

~ By Jim Boyce Given the fatigue from a week of insomnia, the struggle to nail down attendance figures, and the frustration of getting to …