(100) Grand Cru | I spotted this bottle of ’82 Lafite in Beijing last week…
By Jim Boyce | Saw this ’82 Lafite at Lufthansa Center in Beijing a few days ago. It was in a case with a few dozen other …
Is Grace Vineyard the Yao Ming of China’s wine scene?
I was going through old Grape Wall newsletters (subscribe for free here), spotted a short piece called ‘Grace Vineyard is the Yao Ming of China …
Grape Wall projects | The China Wine Directory
By Jim Boyce, One New Year’s resolution for 2016 is to finally, after years of procrastination, put together an online directory of some key players in the …
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’ …