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Chinese wines to ring in the New Year – or anytime, really, now that this portfolio is available in the UK. The convivial, wine-loving Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai once...
Oliver Coleman
Monday 16 February 2026
• 2 min read
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Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 14 February 2026
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23 Jul - Better news for Castel, and others, is that its subsidiary Barrières Frères, jointly owned with Suntory of...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.I don't know about other wine lovers...
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As background for my article tomorrow charting wine's infiltration of Chinese culture, I thought you might be interested in these...
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24 Mar 2014 - The wine part of the dispute was resolved ahead of President Xi's visit to Europe. See...
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I bumped into Andrew Caillard MW and a film crew several times in 2011. They were pretty obviously present at...
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What interests me about wine, almost as much as how it tastes and where it comes from, is the host...
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While in Ningxia I tried to make sense of this burgeoning Chinese wine region's wineries. Here's a list in very...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times .
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Buy this wine By complete coincidence, the British supermarket group Waitrose introduced a wine from Ningxia, their first-ever Asian wine...
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See also this overview of Ningxia and The vinification of Ningxia.
One of the main reasons I was invited to...
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I'm in Beijing airport awaiting my flight to the burgeoning wine country of Ningxia and am already suffering Twitter withdrawal...
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There is uproar in Burgundy over the fact that the Château de Gevrey-Chambertin is now in Chinese hands, having been...
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8 Aug - 10 winemakers from all over the world have now been chosen for the Ningxia Wine Challenge, an...
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Just before I left London for the Languedoc earlier this month, I happened to see quite a few people in...
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Written by Edward Ragg. In 2007 Fongyee Walker and I took the plunge and moved from the UK to Beijing...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. At Pearl Liang, in the lower concourse of Paddington Central, west...
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