Tommy Lam on the State of Sommeliers in China
Tommy Lam has organized a steady stream of wine education events in China over the past seven years. His most recent was the fourth annual Young China …
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Wine Word: Helan Qing Xue winemaker Zhang Jing on Ningxia’s scene
By Jim Boyce Two years ago, I interviewed Zhang Jing, winemaker at Helan Qing Xue in Ningxia, just after she returned home from a three-month …
Wine Word: Michel Bettane & Thierry Desseauve on Chinese wines, consumer attitudes, UK critics & more
By Jim Boyce French wine critics Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve are in China for a week of tastings and classes. I talked to them …
Selling wine in China: Helene Ponty on the Beijing market
By Jim Boyce I recently wrote an article about the Beijing market for an upcoming issue of Wine Business International. It includes insights from a handful of industry players who …
China wine word: Lee Yean Yean of Grace on Shanxi, Sonata and ‘beer o’clock’
Lee Yean Yean has spent most of the past decade at Grace Vineyard in rural Shanxi province in northern China, far from his native land of Malaysia, and …
China Wine Q&A: Wine Enthusiast Magazine Executive Editor Susan Kostrzewa
~ By Jim Boyce U.S.-based magazine Wine Enthusiast teamed up with China online retailer YesMyWine last year to publish an e-version of the magazine. In …
Bush vines, bush wines: Flying winemaker Brian Wilson on his China experience
~ By Jim Boyce ‘Flying winemaker’ Brian Wilson of Wine Solutions first landed in China in the year 2000, one of many stops on a …
“The next ten years will belong to Chinese wines”: Lenz Moser at Changyu Moser XV launch in Ningxia
 ~ By Jim Boyce “I’m sure, based on what I’ve seen during the past eight years in China, that the next ten years will …
Master of Wine candidate from mainland China: Huang Shan on sampling, selling and studying wine
By Jim Boyce I recently talked to Huang Shan — the only mainland China citizen in the Master of Wine program — for Wine Enthusiast …
South Africa wine in China: Charl Coetzee of Babylonstoren visits Beijing
By Jim Boyce Dating to the seventeenth century as a farm, Babylonstoren — translation: Tower of Babylon — has recently emerged as a wine producer. …