Drinks in the Park | The CHILL AF Tasting Series
“Should we cancel the tasting?” “Nah, let’s just do it outdoors.” A few months ago, when neither restaurants nor bars could accept patrons due to …
sCANAANdinavia! China’s Canaan & DFC Wines in Sweden
Stockholm is stocked with a bunch of Chinese wines thanks to Ludvig Saaf, who also serves the Swedish market with Chinese baijiu, Shaoxing rice wine …
Best ‘best China wine list’ ever? | Q&8 with Shuai Zekun
I’ve seen many lists of top Chinese wines over the years but last month’s effort by Shuai Zekun, senior editor for jamessuckling.com, is among the best published in English. …
Three Years Later | COVID & The Damage Done
Three years ago today, I posted “Virus crisis: Ten ways China’s wine trade is hurting” and explained how COVID had already led to slashed flights, …
Model Teas: Oolong, Jasmine & Longjing Chardonnays by Lingering Clouds
Is it not destiny for a country traditionally associated with tea to marry that brew with its modern grape wine industry? Jianjun ‘Johnny’ Liu of …
Post-COVID Report: Revisiting a Chinese winery three years later
Bittersweet moment in the finger-numbing cold and flag-snapping wind at the Domaine Franco-Chinois winery near Beijing a few weeks ago. Three years earlier, I stood in …
Orange at Peach | Time Travel with Georgian & Chinese Wines
Now that was a quirky tasting. Our ‘Orange at Peach’ event this month in Beijing featured 8000 years of time travel plus curious local wines …
Ningxia, COVID & Touring | Visiting Wineries in a ‘Testing’ Time
Traveling in China during the COVID era typically means time spent waiting and worrying in regards to testing. That holds true for Ningxia, too. My …
Ningxia, Didi & Wineries | Journey of a Thousand Bottles
A journey of a thousand bottles begins with a single winery. Or something like that. Anyway, a big challenge in Ningxia is actually reaching those …
Course correction | WSET restarts in mainland China
School is back. China’s WSET representative office announced on its WeChat account today that its 90-plus local partners can restart their classes. Classes were suspended …