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Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 13 December 2025
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This is a much longer version of an article published by the Financial Times. ‘The question is not if a...
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Young Shi was invited by the Penglai Wine Bureau in Shandong Province on the east coast to taste and judge...
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The following is an extract of particularly interesting observations on the wine market in China from the annual report of...
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If my Inbox is to be believed, there are few weeks in the year when there is no hopeful wine...
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Jim Boyce is based in Beijing and is responsible for www.grapewallofchina.com and has been closely involved in organising the Ningxia...
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Carl van der Merwe, winemaker and general manager of De Morgenzon in South Africa, shares his impressions of the Chinese...
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Member Marcus Ford of Pudao Wines writes about his experiences of the blind tastings of the latest wines of Ningxia...
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Two years ago in 10 winemakers chosen for Chinese adventure we published details of an unparalleled competition for winemakers in...
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This article has also been syndicated. China was for long seen by wine exporters as El Dorado – a mysterious...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. See also this account of a fascinating wine project in the...
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I had been hearing vague rumours of an exciting new project in vinously uncharted territory in the far south of...
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As long predicted, the US overtook France to become the world's biggest consumer of wine last year, a year in...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. As the blossoming magnolia trees herald spring in Shanghai, the army...
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The Chinese have been known for years as red-wine consumers, as underlined by the title of the recent, award-winning film...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See my full tasting notes...
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See my overview of this tasting. When I was in Shanghai last month I had another particularly fascinating, and really...
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