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Drinks in the Park | The CHILL AF Tasting Series

February 20, 2023 boyce 0

“Should we cancel the tasting?” “Nah, let’s just do it outdoors.” A few months ago, when neither restaurants nor bars could accept patrons due to …

sCANAANdinavia! China’s Canaan & DFC Wines in Sweden

February 14, 2023 boyce 0

Stockholm is stocked with a bunch of Chinese wines thanks to Ludvig Saaf, who also serves the Swedish market with Chinese baijiu, Shaoxing rice wine …

Best ‘best China wine list’ ever? | Q&8 with Shuai Zekun

February 8, 2023 boyce 0

I’ve seen many lists of top Chinese wines over the years but last month’s effort by Shuai Zekun, senior editor for jamessuckling.com, is among the best published in English. …

Three Years Later | COVID & The Damage Done

February 8, 2023 boyce 0

Three years ago today, I posted “Virus crisis: Ten ways China’s wine trade is hurting” and explained how COVID had already led to slashed flights, …

Model Teas: Oolong, Jasmine & Longjing Chardonnays by Lingering Clouds

February 7, 2023 boyce 0

Is it not destiny for a country traditionally associated with tea to marry that brew with its modern grape wine industry? Jianjun ‘Johnny’ Liu of …

Post-COVID Report: Revisiting a Chinese winery three years later

February 7, 2023 boyce 0

Bittersweet moment in the finger-numbing cold and flag-snapping wind at the Domaine Franco-Chinois winery near Beijing a few weeks ago. Three years earlier, I stood in …

Orange at Peach | Time Travel with Georgian & Chinese Wines

October 21, 2022 boyce 0

Now that was a quirky tasting. Our ‘Orange at Peach’ event this month in Beijing featured 8000 years of time travel plus curious local wines …

Ningxia, COVID & Touring | Visiting Wineries in a ‘Testing’ Time

September 16, 2022 boyce 0

Traveling in China during the COVID era typically means time spent waiting and worrying in regards to testing. That holds true for Ningxia, too. My …

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Ningxia, Didi & Wineries | Journey of a Thousand Bottles

September 15, 2022 boyce 0

A journey of a thousand bottles begins with a single winery. Or something like that. Anyway, a big challenge in Ningxia is actually reaching those …

Course correction | WSET restarts in mainland China

July 18, 2022 boyce 0

School is back. China’s WSET representative office announced on its WeChat account today that its 90-plus local partners can restart their classes. Classes were suspended …

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