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

English sparkling wine’s rise shown in French champagne house opening UK vineyard

English sparkling wine’s rise shown in French champagne house opening UK vineyard

Far from its native Champagne, prestigious French wine house Taittinger last week inaugurated its new vineyard in southeast England, where climate change is making it increasingly easy to grow grapes. The grand opening of the 60-hectare Domaine Evremond vineyard, on a quiet hillside in Kent, received the royal seal of approval, with Sophie Duchess of … Read more