Wine Workshop: Lecture notes…
I attended seven lectures and tasted fourteen local wines on August 9, the second day of the International Workshop on the Wine Market in China, held in Beijing. I put notes from the first three lectures on my grapewallofchina.com site in case anyone is interested:
Shop til’ you pop
Getting wine to China is one thing, getting consumers to pull the cork on a purchase is quite another. Huiqin Ma, associate professor at China Agricultural University and the workshop’s organizer, reports on a survey done with Ying Yu of 230 shoppers in Beijing supermarkets.
China Wine 101
Qi Wang, general secretary of the China Alcoholic Drinks Industry Association, provides facts and figures on Chinese wine production, wineries, imports and exports, and regulations.
Taste, with Chinese characteristics
Here’s a shocker: Chinese people drink wine to get drunk. That statement might trigger eye rolls from some people, but in a world where pairing wine and food gains growing popularity, it’s an important point, and one made by wine educator and writer Frankie Zhao, who discusses the Chinese palate.
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