Selling wine in China: Helene Ponty on the Beijing market
By Jim Boyce I recently wrote an article about the Beijing market for Wine Business International with insights from a handful of industry players who work for companies …
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China wine word: Lee Yean Yean of Grace on Shanxi, Sonata and ‘beer o’clock’
Lee Yean Yean has spent most of the past decade at Grace Vineyard in rural Shanxi province in northern China, far from his native land of Malaysia, and …
China Wine Q&A: Wine Enthusiast Magazine Executive Editor Susan Kostrzewa
~ By Jim Boyce U.S.-based magazine Wine Enthusiast teamed up with China online retailer YesMyWine last year to publish an e-version of the magazine. In …
Bush vines, bush wines: Flying winemaker Brian Wilson on his China experience
~ By Jim Boyce ‘Flying winemaker’ Brian Wilson of Wine Solutions first landed in China in the year 2000, one of many stops on a …
“The next ten years will belong to Chinese wines”: Lenz Moser at Changyu Moser XV launch in Ningxia
 ~ By Jim Boyce “I’m sure, based on what I’ve seen during the past eight years in China, that the next ten years will …
Master of Wine candidate from mainland China: Huang Shan on sampling, selling and studying wine
By Jim Boyce I recently talked to Huang Shan — the only mainland China citizen in the Master of Wine program — for Wine Enthusiast …
South Africa wine in China: Charl Coetzee of Babylonstoren visits Beijing
By Jim Boyce Dating to the seventeenth century as a farm, Babylonstoren — translation: Tower of Babylon — has recently emerged as a wine producer. …
From sex toys to Chateau Lafite: Andrew Caillard on China wine documentary ‘Red Obsession’
By Jim Boyce Andrew Caillard, best known as one of Australia’s first Masters of Wine and publisher of Langton’s Classification of Australian Wine, is also …
China wine barrel market: Oaky insights from Amy Lee of cooperage Berthomieu / Ermitage
~ By Jim Boyce While wine makers, distributors and writers tend to be the key sources for stories on the China scene, talking to the …
Winemakers in China: Zhang Jing on studying Down Under, Jia Bei Lan 2011, oak versus fruit
~ By Jim Boyce Winemaker Zhang Jing from winery Helan Qing Xue in Ningxia headed to Australia earlier this year for a three-month working holiday. …