'A very famous Bordeaux Château is about to announce a major investment in China.' This was Li De Mei's tantalising sign-off at the end of perhaps the most relevant of many presentations given...

It is generally agreed that the 2010 bordeaux campaign was mismanaged, but it would have been a disaster without the Chinese. Of the £30 million worth of baby bordeaux sold by London's leading...

When it comes to pairing beverages with Chinese food, it is best to obey the centuries-old rule: 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do'. So, let's just look at the two most common beverages in China...

Lawyer Nick Bartman, who supplied all the photographs in our recent revealing series on the sort of questionable business practices now commonplace in the rapidly developing Chinese wine...

This is the last of our series of six pictorial reports on the current state of the wine market in China based on photographs taken by lawyer Nick Bartman during a five-week tour of China....

Lawyer Nick Bartman reports that one big problem in the burgeoning Chinese wine market is the prevalence of liquids being sold as wine that are not made from fermented grape juice at all but are...

The Chinese are brilliant at lots of things, not least creating fakes of successful brands. Many Chinese cities have whole shopping complexes devoted, for example, to selling cheap copies of...

Forty-eight hours in China recently was not enough for any profound investigation of the exploding wine scene there but it was enough for me to realise that at long last there are some exciting...

Yesterday we published a video record of where Frédéric Engerer, president of Ch Latour, was last weekend (see Latour in London ). But this photograph shows where he was the weekend before, on...

Update 30 Jun 2011: more insights in an animated discussion on the forum about why Chinese buy Lafite . You may remember an article, The legend of Lafite , I wrote a few months ago...

Almost incredibly, China is now the world’s sixth most important producer of wine and fourth most important grower of grapevines. Quality is still extremely variable, with Chinese wine...

Ken Murchison visits Grace Vineyard, one of China's most reputable wine producers in Shanxi province south west of Beijing, far more famous for coal than wine, leaving his Portree wine operation...

Michael Oates is reading Chinese at St Anne's, my old Oxford college, although that's not how I know him. It was purple pager Martin Nettleton who knows his uncle and put us together....

Continuing her travels round the world of wine as part of her OIV MSc course, Victoria Daskal reaches China, as you can see below. After several weeks hopping around China with my wine...

Restaurateurs in Hong Kong and Shanghai had been quick to tell me the dishes that we must not miss during our stay in Beijing, most notably anything involving duck, the cook-it-yourself...