Effervescent afterthought: The sparkling wine market in China
~ By Jim Boyce “Bubbly is a distant competitor to still wines in China, a modest spume in the glass of total consumption, an effervescent …
Thurston: Advice for brain surgeons, white wine from red grapes, crocopotamus vino, Parker points, Pinotage & more
~ By Jim Boyce During eight-plus years of writing about wine in China, I have learned much from winery owners, winemakers, vineyard managers, importers, distributors, …
Re-wined: Jancis Robinson to run five-part series on fake wine in China
~ By Jim Boyce This week UK wine writer Jancis Robinson will start posting a five-part series by Nick Bartman on fake wine in China. …
G Day: Anyone up for Cabernet Gernischt Day?
~ By Jim Boyce It seems every grape, like every dog, will have its day.* For Malbec, that date is April 17. For Chardonnay, May …
Helan yeah! Pernod Ricard’s China wines now available at tmall.com
~ By Jim Boyce The wines Pernod Ricard makes in Ningxia under the lable Helan Mountain are both fruitful and frustrating. On one hand, much …
Grand boo! Zombies, vampires, ghosts and other China wine horrors
~ By Jim Boyce My third “Made in China” column for The Beijinger magazine takes a cue from Halloween and looks at vampires, zombies, body-snatchers …
Syrah-ously: What’s the deal with China’s Cabernet Gernsicht?
~ By Jim Boyce The origins of the grape called Cabernet Gernischt — closely associated with and widely used in China — has been a …
Suite Sixteen Contest: Win the Presidential Suite at Hilton Beijing Food & Wine Experience
~ By Jim Boyce Why stumble home from the Hilton Beijing if you can saunter up to the presidential suite? (Yeah, that’s a rhetorical question.) …
Sixteen candles: Simon Amos on this year’s Hilton Beijing Food & Wine Experience
~ By Jim Boyce The annual Food & Wine Experience at Hilton Beijing is impressive both for its track record — sixteen years and counting …
Free booze + discounts + unintentional comedy = Carrefour Shuangjing wine fair tonight
~ By Jim Boyce Free samples. Discounts. Outraged French wine experts. Inebriated shoppers crashing into stuff. Passionate debate over the wine with the bird on …