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 …
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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 …
Q&8: Ma Huiqin on Australian Wine
Australian wine is flowing back to China and I recently wrote about the current state of affairs for Wine Searcher. The interviewees included Ma Huiqin, …
Q&8: Matt Bahen of De Bortoli
Australia wine returns to China. The story “Australian Wine Finds its Feet in China” in Wine-Searcher has quotes from professor / marketing expert Ma Huiqin, Andrew Moody of Tyrrell’s, Baron …
Q&8: Carpathian Importer Bence Kato on Niche Wine Success in China
While the China market at large has struggled for much of the past decade, we find plenty of unique stories within that scene. They includes …
A Year of China Wine Insights
I spent part of the Chinese New Year holidays getting my websites organized, including all of the Year of the Rabbit Q&8s with trade people. …
Q&A: Special Chinese Whisky Edition
As there were far more quotes than space allowed in my China whisky story for Wine Searcher — read it here — here are plenty …