https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2015/03/08/wine-word-michel-bettane-thierry-desseauve-on-chinese-wines-consumer-attitudes-uk-critics-more/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:29:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2015/03/08/wine-word-michel-bettane-thierry-desseauve-on-chinese-wines-consumer-attitudes-uk-critics-more/#comment-665025 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 08:09:29 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=6167#comment-665025 It is an interesting article, but I have to disagree with the comments. China has a very long time before they make good wine, right now it is acceptable at best. I just came back from a six month working contract in Beijing. They planting thousands of hectares each year doesn’t mean anything. It means all they care about is quantity and money. And they have an understanding of fine food, I don’t think most of them do. The percent of people in china that appreciate very good food is the same percent relative as in the USA or Australia, or other countries thirty or forty years ago. You are talking about the 2% of chinese that have money and education and live in major city. They have access to all of this knowledge, yet still plant mostly bordeaux grapes. Silly Chinese wine makers, following popular things only. And if you have to bury your vines in the ground every year maybe you should not plant vines in that region. No one grows watermelon in canada! “Ningxia is a special place” very political way to say not good for grapes. They think they can buy everything. With the amount of pollution in that country I think it will be 150 years until there exports are taken seriously and other countries will drink there wine. Watch Under the Dome and then think to drink something from their terroir. And trends move so fast in a country. Bordeaux one year, Burgundy the next, Tuscany the next. This is strange to change so fast. To easily lead and influenced they are.

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