Bordeaux winery investments turn sour for Chinese investors

Bordeaux winery investments turn sour for Chinese investors

After over a decade of snapping up Bordeaux wine estates, buying into a dream of elegant living in France and good earnings in their home market, many Chinese investors are now selling up. Capital controls back home, softening Asian demand for wine and underestimates of the costs of running French estates have combined to push … Read more

Award-winning Chinese winemakers from Ningxia look for global customers as market falls

Award-winning Chinese winemakers from Ningxia look for global customers as market falls

In a desert region of northwestern China, Liu Li speaks proudly of how the once barren sands have been transformed in recent years into rolling vineyards, helping the region become one of the heartlands of the country’s domestic wine industry. “We have turned a yellow sand area into a golden one,” says Liu, workshop director … Read more

How language of wine is changing as young Chinese drinkers choose bottles without jargon

How language of wine is changing as young Chinese drinkers choose bottles without jargon

“Fresh tiles after rain”, “fur on the back of bats’ wings” and “burning incense” are just a few of the terms seasoned wine educator Terry Xu Wei might use to describe a tipple – even glasses poured from his collection of fine and rare wines. Better known by his alias Xiao Pi, and with close … Read more