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  • CNN Tech (Dylan Byers)

    PACIFIC for April 4

    Fun blog we didn't know about: "Grape Wall of China," a wine site "covering the world's biggest market." Recent item: "What did Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-Un drink together...?" It's right up our alley.

  • Reuters (Brenda Goh)

    Trade tensions stoke worries of anti-U.S. backlash in China

    Jim Boyce, a Beijing-based wine consultant who writes the blog Grapewallofchina, said while there were concerns that the duties would make U.S. wine less cost-competitive, the greater worry was over the image the trade war would generate for U.S. goods. "Are we going to see people in China worried about drinking American wine because of politics? That's the bigger problem," he said.

  • Drinks Business (Natalie Wang)

    China enforces tax hike for American wine imports

    “A bigger worry is the tariff getting tied to nationalism, that consumers, retailers and distributors turn their backs on US wines as a political point. We saw this happen to some South Korean products in recent years and it had a major impact,” wrote Jim Boyce, Beijing-based wine consultant and founder of Grape Wall of China, “although, as noted, the amount of U.S. wine in China is relatively small.”

  • New York Times (Natalie Kitroeff)

    China Finds California Wine Pairs Well With a Trade War

    “Wine is something people can relate to,” said Jim Boyce, who has been covering the industry from Beijing for a decade on his blog, the Grape Wall of China. “It’s like putting a tariff on Chinese dumplings. It’s something you can feel on an emotional and personal level.”

  • 纽约时报中文网

    加州葡萄酒，中美贸易战的“牺牲品”

    葡萄酒是人们能理解的东西，”吉姆·博伊斯(Jim Boyce)说，他在自己的博客“葡萄围城”(Grape Wall of China)上从北京报道中国葡萄酒市场已有十年。

  • BBC

    “中美貿易戰陰影下的憂心者樣本：美國紅酒”,

    在中國內部，關稅可能意味著更高的價格。但在中國葡萄牆（Grape Wall of China）博客上撰文的北京葡萄酒顧問吉姆·博伊斯（Jim Boyce）說，美國品牌很可能能夠吸引許多已經凖備花更多錢的顧客。 "當然，沒有關稅是最好的。但其影響並不像一些人想得那麼糟，"他說。

  • BBC (Natalie Sherman)

    Industry ferment: US wine industry crushed over tariffs

    Inside China, tariffs would likely mean higher prices. But Jim Boyce, a Beijing-based wine consultant who writes on the Grape Wall of China blog, says American brands are likely to be able to hold onto many of their customers, who were already prepared to spend more. "Of course, no tariff is better than a tariff, but the impact isn't nearly as bad as it would be for some," he says.

  • China Daily (Jim Boyce)

    Best of the bunch

    [T]he good news is that an increasing number of tasty local wines are finding their way into consumers' glasses. Here are five wineries that have national distribution network, and are regularly listed by sites like JD and Taobao, and top restaurants, bars and hotels...

  • China Today (Jacques Fourrier)

    Ningxia Winemakers’ Challenge: Flushed with Success

    “The Ningxia Winemakers Challenge is not a wine challenge, it’s a communication challenge,” remarked Jim Boyce, founder of grapewallofchina.com, who helped the International Federation of Vine and Wine of Helan Mountain’s East Foothill and Ningxia’s Bureau of Grape Industry Development organize the challenge.

  • Huffington Post (Taylor Butch)

    New ‘Red Revolution’ Underway In China

    “Red wine dominates the market but it’s partly due to producers, importers and distributors assuming that’s what consumers want,” says Boyce. “A good deal of wine is still bought here for status reasons, such as for gifts or business entertainment, and that tends to be red. But more and more consumers are buying simply for taste and many of them enjoy white wine as much as red wine.”

  • CNN (Serenitie Wang)

    How to drink baijiu: Beijing’s pros share their tips

    Jim Boyce, a Canadian wine expert based in Beijing, is the founder of World Baijiu Day, aimed at promoting the best-selling yet little-known spirit. He said 30 Baijiu Day events were held in 20 cities around the world last year. Dedicated baijiu bars are now found in Liverpool and New York.

  • WBM: Australia's Wine Business Magazine (Larry Lockshin)

    Behind The Red Curtain: What’s Really Happening in China

    Jim Boyce, wine writer, Chinese industry pundit and author of the Grape Wall of China monthly newsletter wrote in his last edition that he estimates perhaps half of China’s domestic wine sales are contrived through cross-selling internally and that the wines after sale are languishing in warehouses, not sitting in restaurants or people’s homes. His estimate is that China’s wine market is actually about 50/50 domestic and imported, rather than the official 75/25.

  • The Guardian (Lawrence Osborne)

    Chateau Changyu: a growing taste for Chinese wine

    Ten years ago I visited the Great Wall Wine Company near Beijing in the middle of winter with Chinese wine writer Jim Boyce and found its vines desolately buried underground in order to endure a Mongolian-style winter, its freezing labs filled with shivering men and women in white coats looking more like year-rounders in a nuclear power plant – though they offered us a rather fine grappa.

  • The Beijinger (Kyle Mullin)

    Raise a Glass for Grape Wall: Jim Boyce’s Popular Local Wine Blog Turns 10

    "The lifestyle blogger launched Grape Wall of China 10 years ago as a sister site to his earlier, broader F&B-themed Beijing Boyce blog, in order to zero in on all things wine."

  • Sommeliers International

    Ningxia in Chine

    And there are plenty of development projects although, as says Jim Boyce, consultant and creator of the website Grape Wall of China, the biggest challenge for Ningxia remains to be able to make fine wines in a region where the climate conditions are difficult to control.

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