Happy New Year! Enjoy these fireworks!
By Jim Boyce | The Chinese New Year holidays are underway and plenty of wine and baijiu bottles have already been emptied! All the best …
Month: January 2017
Hello Bo | Wine veteran Hector Jiang opens new Italian-focused venue
By Jim Boyce | For a long while, the best one-two wine shop punch in Beijing consisted of Jim Yang and Hector Jiang at Pudao, …
Charles Carrard of Paradox | Online wine sales, hypermarket trends and restaurant lessons
By Jim Boyce | I recently talked to a bunch of trade people for a Shanghai retail story in Meininger’s Wine Business International. We could only …
Marcus Ford of Langton’s | Shanghai retail, beyond Bordeaux & the new wave of distributors
By Jim Boyce | I recently talked to a bunch of trade people for a Shanghai retail story in Meininger’s Wine Business International. We could only …
Ningxia news | Cao Kailong appointed wine bureau director
By Jim Boyce | Cao Kailong is the new director of the Bureau of Grape Industry Development in Ningxia, replacing the retiring Li Xueming. Given …
Legation libations | U.S. Embassy / California Wine Institute holiday party
By Jim Boyce | California Wine Institute (CWI) teamed with U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus and Melodee Hanes last month for a holiday tasting at …
By design | How an interior decor shop doubles as a superb wine bar
By Jim Boyce | Beer, cocktail and spirits fans face far better options than their grape-loving brethren in Beijing, whose hopes are raised every time …
Beijing sommeliers | Ups and downs in the nation’s capital
By Jim Boyce | I figured writing a story about Beijing sommeliers would be easy. Meininger’s Wine Business International (subscribe here) sent me a few examples …
China wine retail | Ten trade insiders on Shanghai
By Jim Boyce | Behind the fleeting headlines about flourishing wine imports in China lies the enduring reality of actually selling that stock. Wine retail …
Wine bars in China | Paradox to expand to Beijing
By Jim Boyce | Paradox will open its third French restaurant and wine bar, a sibling to venues in Shanghai and Suzhou, next month in Beijing. …