Under this category we share Chinese Wines articles with you.
It’s Labor Day Weekend and quite hot here in the Los Angeles area. I don’t often drink Rosé, but it’s definitely the perfect wine for a hot weekend while relaxing at home before the end of Summer. I’ve had several wines from China (including another from…
Finished reading The Chinese Wine Renaissance by Jante Z. Wang this weekend. A very informative deep-dive into not only the history of wine in China but also the country itself. The book focuses heavily on grain based wines which historically have had a bigger role than…
This was a question that would pass through my mind from time to time. Is Cabernet Gernischt really the same as Carménère? Cabernet Gernischt had long been believed to be a nearly extinct form of Cabernet that was brought from France to China in the early…
I decided that this past weekend would be focused on comparing a few Cabernet Sauvignons from a few places around the world. I would grab a couple of fairly typical examples and then compare them to not as common wines regions. If you’ve been reading my…
Visiting Shandong Province’s wine region and Changyu’s chateaus in northeast China had been on my list for a while. China often likes to call Shandong their version of Napa Valley in California. It’s along the latitude and shares a similar climate. I finally was able to…
Please Note: This was an updated post from a previous blog I used to have. My trip to Yunnan was in 2016 not 2018 as the post date lists. Large international companies like Moët Hennessy have been focusing on the edge of the Himalayas, an area…
