The full Ponty | A family winery tells all about selling in China
By Jim Boyce | Six years, sixty cities, thousands of ganbeis and a master’s degree worth of lessons. When it comes to planting a family …
Wine and baijiu | Did Penfolds borrow our April Fool’s joke!?
By Jim Boyce | Is Treasury Wine Estates following this blog!? Or a higher-up at Penfolds? Maybe Peter Gago? Because a new wine-baijiu blend called ‘waijiu‘ …
Bottle stock | Grace Vineyard lists on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Jim Boyce | Grace Vineyard has gone public. In terms of being listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, that is. Its status is official under …
Rawson’s Retreat advances | Will it cause a ‘Yellowtail effect’ in China?
By Jim Boyce | Will Rawson’s Retreat do in China what Yellowtail did in the United States a decade ago, namely, associate Australia with relatively …
WinItaly? Simone Incontro on a ‘comeback’ for Italian wine in China
By Jim Boyce | Italy has struggled to gain wine market share in China for the past decade and Shanghai-based Simone Incontro of Veronafiere is …
Bling dynasty | China wines win 131 medals at Concours Mondial
By Jim Boyce | Chinese wines won 131 medals, including five “grand golds”, at the Concours Mondial in Beijing this month. The results, published today, also …
Next-wave Marselan | A bunch of Ningxia wineries will unleash this grape
By Jim Boyce | For the past dozen years, we’ve heard a growing buzz in China about the grape Marselan (马瑟兰)—that’s one reason I started …
First World Marselan Day! | Corks pop from U.S. to China to Germany
By Jim Boyce | The first World Marselan Day saw wine fans in the United States, Germany, Brazil, Romania, China and elsewhere open bottles from …
Ninth Grape Wall Challenge | Consumers judge Chinese Marselan!
By Jim Boyce | Cabernet Sauvignon dominates China’s vineyards but a growing number of people believe Marselan will emerge as the nation’s signature grape. We featured …
Two degrees of separation | A common bond for Ningxia’s top wine brands
By Jim Boyce | The moody blends of Silver Heights, the brawnier offerings of Helan Qing Xue and the fruit-forward drops of Kanaan: these distinct styles …