Unfortunately I don't yet know the identities of the wines we tasted: 47 wines produced by local producers in the morning and the international winemakers' wines in the afternoon. As for the international winemakers' wines, of the three whites, two were really lovely wines and clearly a step up from anything we had seen in the short flight of six whites made by local producers...
Chinese winemaking – a progress report
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Member Marcus Ford of Pudao Wines writes about his experiences of the blind tastings of the latest wines of Ningxia, the wine-minded province in red on the map, described in Australian triumphs in Ningxia.
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