Q&8: East Meets West founder Shirley Tan
East Meets West is celebrating its twentieth anniversary so I got in touch with founder Shirley Tan, who started the company in 2003, left in …
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Q&8: Simone Incontro on Italian Wine Week in China
‘Tis the season for Sangiovese, and lots more, as the fourth Italian Wine Week is set for Beijing, Changsha and Hangzhou from September 11 to …
Q&A: La Cava de Laoma Turns Ten
On the verge of its tenth anniversary, Chilean wine specialist La Cava de Laoma has opened a second bar in Shanghai even as the general …
Q&8 | Ian Dai on Chinese terroir, niche wines & global dreams
I interviewed Ian Dai, who makes wine in Ningxia, Yunnan, Hebei and elsewhere under the label Xiao Pu aka Petit Garden, for this Wine Searcher …
Q&8! Claudia Masueger vs The (Wine) World
Claudia Masueger of wine shop chain CHEERS is the only person I know who returned to China with a raclette set for quarantine. You just …
Q&A! Judy Chan on 25 years at Grace Vineyard
Grace Vineyard is 25 years old! That’s quite a long time just to survive in China’s wine business. And an almost impossibly long one while …
Bazinga! Muti Mo on exploding Pinot, ‘aha!’ moments, natural wine & 2022 plans
An especially explosive bottle. Need-to-knows for consumers and natural wine. An “aha!” moment in the wine trade. And plans for 2022, from opening a new …
Marselan maverick | Emy Marinova, Shanghai-based co-owner of Bulgarian winery Burgozone
Emy Marinova is the Shanghai-based co-owner and the export director of Bulgarian winery Burgozone. Marinova is also a wine writer, judge and consultant. In this …
Acid test / From Guangzhou wine bar founder to Ningxia natural bubbly winemaker
‘In Juice We Trust’ is the motto of Muti Mo, who launched natural wine bar MuST in Guangzhou two years ago this month. Mo brought …
Q&8! Lorenzo Riccardi, Bill Liu & Simone Incontro on San Marino wine in China
San Marino might have a small population — just 34,000 citizens — but it also has an intriguing and long history, stretching nearly two millennia. …