Online wine retail in China: TasteV, Grace Vineyard and market price
By Jim Boyce Still on the topic of online wine retail, I raised the following issue on Weibo a while back but it is still bothering …
Online wine retail in China: What’s happening at yangjiu.com?
By Jim Boyce Update (07/23): I have been unable to reach yangjiu.com via any of the links on its website (the phone numbers are top …
Double pour: Wine Republic to hold Jia Bei Lan dinner at Jaan in Raffles Beijing
By Jim Boyce After Jia Bei Lan Dry Red 2009 won an “international award” at the Decanter World Wine Awards in London, a first for …
Make wine in China? Ningxia Wine Challenge to fund 10 foreign winemakers this fall
~ By Jim Boyce The government of Ningxia will invite 10 foreign winemakers to visit this fall and each make a red wine and a …
In with a (very loud) bang: Photo essay of Yantai International Wine Exposition opening in China
By Jim Boyce The opening of the Yantai International Wine Exposition started off as a brain-numbing exercise that involved the introduction of dozens of dignitaries …
Blueprint a better blue: On translating Robert Parker’s wine tasting notes into Chinese
~ By Jim Boyce I happily joined a dinner in Beijing a week ago with a group that included Marcus Ford, Stuart Christie and Jim …
China wine word: Opus One CEO David Pearson on fakes, strategies and styles
By Jim Boyce I met David Pearson, CEO of Opus One, and Yvonne Chiong-Mougin, the company’s Asia export manager, in Beijing yesterday to talk about …
RVF 2012 China Wine Awards: Li Demei, Emma Gao, Grace Vineyard lead way
By Jim Boyce The Chinese edition of wine magazine Revue du Vin de France revealed the winners of its 2012 China Wine Awards last week …
Matured two years: Nick Bartman’s investigation of fake wine, other IPR issues in China
By Jim Boyce In March of 2010, I met Nick Bartman twice in Beijing to talk about wine and intellectual property rights (IPR) in China. …
China seal: Tasting Series 1980 from Dynasty uses Nomacorc closure
Jim Boyce The synthetic closure above was made by Nomacorc and used to stop a bottle of Tasting Series 1980 wine produced by Dynasty. The …