On Cloud Wine: Feng Jian & High-Altitude ‘Grand Crunnan’
The high-altitude region of Deqin County aka Shangri-la in Yunnan province—the Chinese charactars for Yunnan mean “clouds” and “mountains”—is attracting attention from wine aficionados. Feng …
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Q&8: Hamish Williams on Selling Chinese Wine in Australia
No one is championing Chinese wine in Australia quite like Hamish Williams. He officially launched importer / distributor Periphery Wine last year and is already …
Q&8: Buoyed by Success, Camden Hauge Brings More Chinese Wine to New York
It’s one thing to export wine. It’s another to sell enough to need a second shipment. Such repeat business has often proven fleeting for Chinese …
Q&8: Importer KC Wines Doubles Down in China
It seems every week I hear someone say the “natural wines trend” is in decline in China, that sales are tough, that a specialized wine …
Risk, Red Tape & Regrets: One Man’s China Wine Dream
(This Q&8 first appeared in the Grape Wall Newsletter. Sign up for free here.) Frustration with local farmers and foreign consultants. The soul-destroying cases of …
Q&8 | Arthur Hamon on Ningbo, China Wine, Selling Online & More
For nearly a decade, Arthur Hamon has enjoyed a ground-level view of the wine scene in Ningbo, a city many beyond China might not know …
Q&8: Patrick Cranley of Shanghai Wine Society
(This story first appeared in the Grape Wall newsletter. Subscribe for free here.) I know few people who are aficionados of historical staircases, berets *and* …
Q&8 | 25 Years, 10,000 Students, Countless China Wine Lessons
Twenty-five years. Ten thousand students. Countless China wine lessons. A wine appreciation course launched in China in 1998 turned into a quarter-century experiment that reveals …
China’s Hutong Winemaker: Three Decades of Daring Wines
A stranger contacted me six years ago about the wines he makes in Beijing’s traditional alleyways–the hutongs–near The Forbidden City. I was at first intrigued …
Q&8: Jack Zhang of The Cellar Project
The past half-dozen years have seen a growing number of winemakers in China exploring far beyond the Bordeaux-style wines that defined the industry a dozen …