About Grape Wall of China 葡萄围城
Launched in 2007, Grape Wall covers the China wine market: everything from tastings and winery visits to trade news and ‘Q&8s‘ with winemakers, retailers, critics …
A New Leaf: Wines That Match China to a Tea
If asked to name the most intriguing Chinese wines of the past two years, I would rank the tea-infused Chardonnay bubblies by Lingering Clouds right …
Q&8: Patrick Cranley of Shanghai Wine Society
(This story first appeared in the Grape Wall newsletter. Subscribe for free here.) I know few people who are aficionados of historical staircases, berets *and* …
Wine on the Go: China’s Boutique Producers Crash Singapore
(This story first appeared in Grape Wall newsletter. Subscribe for free here.) The world might be struggling with excess wines and slow sales but Chinese producers are …
Q&8 | 25 Years, 10,000 Students, Countless China Wine Lessons
Twenty-five years. Ten thousand students. Countless China wine lessons. A wine appreciation course launched in China in 1998 turned into a quarter-century experiment that reveals …
Q&8: Joy of two vineyards, Deep Blue turns 20 & Five Guys with Grace’s Lee Yeanyean
The joy of two vineyards. An iconic wine turns twenty. Fighting rot in Ningxia. Tackling whisky and gin. We cover all that and more with Lee Yeanyean—Grace …
China Wine Trends: Is Orange the New Red?
(This post first appeared in the free grape wall newsletter. Sign up here.) Is orange wine the new red wine? Grape Wall newsletter recently made …
Double Dragon: China Wine Market Lessons, 2012 vs 2024
Year of the Dragon departs in ten weeks and then Year of the Snake slithers in. China’s zodiac has 12 signs, a cycle of a dozen years, and contrasting Dragon v2012 …
High on Wine: The Rise of Thousand-Dollar Bottles in China
“For our new store, our wine list only sells Chinese labels.I didn’t expect that after only three days of business,the most expensive wines on the …
World wine club: China is the OIV’s newest member
China officially became a member of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), an intergovernmental group that “provides grape and wine producing and consuming …
China’s Hutong Winemaker: Three Decades of Daring Wines
A stranger contacted me six years ago about the wines he makes in Beijing’s traditional alleyways–the hutongs–near The Forbidden City. I was at first intrigued …