Bottle Benevolence | Three Charity Wine Projects in Beijing
By Jim Boyce I’ve spent much of the past three Novembers helping to organize a month-long charity project called Maovember. The idea is for small bars, restaurants and …
Books | Karen MacNeil’s new ‘Wine Bible’ includes China section
Last year’s lone wine trip outside China was to California in October and it came just after the new edition of The Wine Bible by …
China wine distribution | CHEERS expands to eight cities, opens new office
In April, I wrote that wine importer / wholesaler CHEERS, which has more than a dozen shops in Beijing, would soon expand to Shanghai. The team, …
The Italian Job | Rory Quirk of CruItaly’s wine strategy in China
By Jim Boyce Three years ago, IT company Xiao Fu Ecommerce Group saw an opportunity to promote not only wines but also coffee, fashion, home …
Swag time: The best wine freebie
Go to enough wine tastings, press conferences, trade fairs and winery tours and you will end up with a closet worth of openers, notebooks, lapel …
Bubbly Battle | Chinese consumers pick sparkling favorites in Grape Wall Challenge VII
By Jim Boyce The seventh annual Grape Wall Challenge featured a battle of the bubblies as ten Chinese consumers blind-tasted a dozen sparkling wines at TRB …
Sparkling wine in China | 7th annual Grape Wall Challenge to focus on budget bubbly
Chinese consumers will become wine judges when the corks pop for the seventh annual Grape Wall Challenge in less than a week. Every year, we ask ‘regular’ …
Tasting | Mas La Plana from 1970 to 2010 with Torres China
I have gone to few very wine tastings this year but happily accepted an invitation to try seven vintages of Mas La Plana — from …
End of an era | Don St Pierre Jr resigns from ASC
After nearly two decades in China’s wine business, ASC co-founder Don St. Pierre, Jr has resigned, the company announced in a press release today: “When …
From baskteball to bottles in China | Mike Signorelli of Signature Wine Club
Our most recent GWoC Talk features Mike Signorelli of Signature Wine Club, who discusses some of the trials and tribulations of a very new field in …