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Fine China in London
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
Wine news in 5
Floods hit Spain, Portugal, Italy, Monarch Tractor shuttered, early budbreak in California
Plus, a trade deal for China and South Africa, falling French wine and spirits exports, a legal case in Australia. And congratulations to Andrew Jefford, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 14 February 2026
• 1 min read
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Wine discoveries – January 2026
From light, delicate Prosecco to cult wine from Bordeaux and red Zinfandel, there’s something for everyone in these 25 wines. Above, the 1,000-year-old chapel at St-Jacques d’Albas, source of one...
Team JR
Tuesday 3 February 2026
• 2 min read
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This is a guide to the collection of images we have published over the last week showing typical examples of...
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This is the last of our series of six pictorial reports on the current state of the wine market in...
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Lawyer Nick Bartman reports that one big problem in the burgeoning Chinese wine market is the prevalence of liquids being...
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This week we continue our series showcasing some of lawyer Nick Bartman's finds during a five-week tour of China. The...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. When I started out writing about...
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Continuing our photographic record of surprising wine-related phenomena found by lawyer Nick Bartman during his five-week tour of China, we...
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Yesterday in Fakes in China 1 – Lafite of course we saw some instances of bottles of wine on sale...
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The Chinese are brilliant at lots of things, not least creating fakes of successful brands. Many Chinese cities have whole...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. The Peninsula hotel is the only new building to open on...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Forty-eight hours in China recently was...
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I had ridiculously little time in China recently, and was able to taste Chinese wine for only the tiniest proportion...
Don't quote me
I’ve just hosted wine dinners on consecutive nights in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing designed to publicise the forthcoming mainland...
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After months of speculation, leading importer and distributor of wine in China ASC announced earlier today that the majority stake...
Don't quote me
Yesterday we published a video record of where Frédéric Engerer, president of Ch Latour, was last weekend (see Latour in...
Don't quote me
Update 30 Jun 2011: more insights in an animated discussion on the forum about why Chinese buy Lafite. You may...
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It will be fascinating to see what sort of prices are fetched by the super-starry lots in two major fine...
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