A mystery solved: What does Foreign Girl taste like?
What does Foreign Girl taste like? Strawberries. So concluded a group that last night tried a bottle of this liquid concocted by Chang Bai Shan …
ASC opens Hong Kong office
– By Jim Boyce I have been mulling over a post about Hong Kong-based wine distributors such as Watson’s and Links moving into Beijing and …
Grape Press: Latour in Hong Kong, Halliday in Taiwan, mangosteens in Thailand
Some China-related wine news from the Web… – Halliday in Taiwan Food Week reports that Australian wine critic James Halliday is heading to Taipei this …
French Wine Paradox: What to buy with 500 kuai
By Jim Boyce It is one thing to try wines and another to buy them. The first helps you learn what you like while the …
The Hilton Food & Wine Experience: Ten thoughts
By Jim Boyce Ten thoughts – all I can manage after a heavy weekend of tasting – about last Saturday’s eleventh annual Hilton Food & …
Price trumps product: The wines of China producer Chateau Junding
By Jim Boyce I wrote Monday about Chinese boutique wineries leveraging their local know-how to target moneyed customers at home. Case in point: Chateau Junding. …
Beijing tasting time: Hilton Food & Wine Experience, and more
One of the best Beijing wine events of the year – The Hilton Food & Wine Experience – is tomorrow (Saturday) from 5 to 8 …
Internal use only: Why boutique wineries in China are staying home
By Jim Boyce Mike Steinberger of Slate wrote about the China wine scene earlier this year and we traded emails ahead of time on a …
Hilton Food & Wine Experience: Win tickets, a deluxe room, and breakfast
By Jim Boyce This might interest wine fans in Beijing: I am running a contest on my nightlife blog with prizes for the Hilton Food …
Joining the bunch: Li Demei, wine maker
Li Demei is joining the group of contributors at Grape Wall of China, a nonprofit site that brings wine consumers, distributors, makers, academics and consultants …