The Italian Job | Rory Quirk of CruItaly’s wine strategy in China
By Jim Boyce Three years ago, IT company Xiao Fu Ecommerce Group saw an opportunity to promote not only wines but also coffee, fashion, home …
Swag time: The best wine freebie
Go to enough wine tastings, press conferences, trade fairs and winery tours and you will end up with a closet worth of openers, notebooks, lapel …
Bubbly Battle | Chinese consumers pick sparkling favorites in Grape Wall Challenge VII
By Jim Boyce The seventh annual Grape Wall Challenge featured a battle of the bubblies as ten Chinese consumers blind-tasted a dozen sparkling wines at TRB …
Sparkling wine in China | 7th annual Grape Wall Challenge to focus on budget bubbly
Chinese consumers will become wine judges when the corks pop for the seventh annual Grape Wall Challenge in less than a week. Every year, we ask ‘regular’ …
Tasting | Mas La Plana from 1970 to 2010 with Torres China
I have gone to few very wine tastings this year but happily accepted an invitation to try seven vintages of Mas La Plana — from …
End of an era | Don St Pierre Jr resigns from ASC
After nearly two decades in China’s wine business, ASC co-founder Don St. Pierre, Jr has resigned, the company announced in a press release today: “When …
From baskteball to bottles in China | Mike Signorelli of Signature Wine Club
Our most recent GWoC Talk features Mike Signorelli of Signature Wine Club, who discusses some of the trials and tribulations of a very new field in …
The East is white| Rethinking the ‘Chinese love red wine’ meme
By Jim Boyce | It’s funny when industry observers say Chinese consumers prefer red wines to white wines, and claim, as evidence red is associated with luck and …
Grape Press | Ningxia Regional Analysis in Wine Business International
As far as wine regions go, Ningxia is pretty darn hot. The past five years have seen a steady stream of winemakers, viticulturalists, writers, investors, equipment …
Wine word | Nicolas Billot-Grima on Chinese Medoc marathoners, winery feng shui & more
By Jim Boyce Nicolas Billot-Grima has made wine in China for over a quarter-century: he started at Huadong in Shandong province in the late 1980s, …