Last call (for now) | Pudao Wines to close in Beijing
Pudao Wines is closing its Beijing branch nearly ten years to the day the company launched its first shop in Shanghai. The store will close …
‘China’s grape’ | Celebrate World Marselan Day in Beijing
By Jim Boyce | China’s grape. That’s what many are calling Marselan, a grape that arrived here twenty years ago and spread across nation. The …
Seas the day | Oysters, wine and the 500 million-year trip
By Jim Boyce | It’s mind-blowing how one taste can trigger our primal, sentimental and intellectual senses. Last week, the briny Pacific tang of a …
State blend | Joint China-Israel wine launches today
A souvenir wine named ‘Double Seventy‘ officially launches today to mark the 70th anniversaries of the People’s Republic of China (1949) and State of Israel …
China wine jobs | EMW seeks national brand, digital marketing managers, more
Veteran China wine importer and distributor EMW (East Meets West) has a bunch of sales and marketing openings. Founded in 2003, EMW carries labels from …
Home strewth | Andrew Caillard on Australian wine success in China
By Jim Boyce |Andrew Caillard has spent tons of time in China, whether to judge in contests like Wine 100, to promote Australian wine in …
A real corker | Why Australia sells so much wine to China
By Jim Boyce | No country has shone like Australia this past decade when it comes to bottled wine imports in China. It has long …
Home truths | Chinese producers face fake wine problem
“Fake wine” and “China” tend to evoke images of Lafite and Penfolds knockoffs, of labels that borrow a world of spellings and fonts, castles and …
Happy Year of the Pig!
By Jim Boyce | We are in the midst of the Chinese New Year holidays here in Beijing, a week-plus of “eat, drink and repeat”, …
Incredible bulk | The WBWE is coming to China
By Jim Boyce | Say “bulk wine” and people instantly think quantity over quality. But there’s far more to it, says Jörg Philipp, who will …