Decanter China staff's articles
How to read tasting notes (light red wines)
What do wine tasters mean by "food wines" ? What does it suggest if a wine is "brick red"?
Tokaj, Hungary
This beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Site, with its famous sweet wines, great food and stunning architecture, is a perfect getaway.
How to read tasting notes (dry white wines)
Tasting notes are useful tools to give you a hint of what you should expect before you try a wine. Let’s look at some examples of wine tasting notes and how to read them.
Wine quiz week 3 - test your tasting knowledge
Tasting wine is not simply drinking wine. It requires certain preparation, knowledge and skills. This week, let's test how much you know about wine tasting.
Bordeaux trivia (III) - Bordeaux grape varieties
In both 2011 and 2012 Decanter World Wine Awards, Chinese wines have achieved international trophies under the category of “Red Bordeaux Varietal”, meaning the wine is made of a grape variety most commonly seen in Bordeaux. So what are the key Bordeaux gr
Schioppettino (red)
Prepotto, a commune about 50km northwest of Trieste in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, very close to the Slovenian border, is the beating heart of Schioppettino.
Bordeaux trivia (IV) — Bordeaux Left and Right Banks
People talk about Bordeaux Left Bank and Right Bank all the time. But do you know why these regions are called Left Bank and Right Bank, and what are the biggest differences between them?
Torrontés (white)
The fragrant, Muscat-like Spanish variety Torrontés is common in Argentina, and may have been originally transported from Galicia in Spain.
Rotgipfler (white)
A speciality of, and native to, Austria’s Thermenregion, south of Vienna, Rotgipfler is sadly losing ground, with just 105 hectares left in Austria, equivalent to 0.2% of the Austrian vineyard area.
Semillon (white)
Semillon is at its most illustrious in the humid atmosphere of Sauternes and Barsac, where its susceptibility to noble rot concentrates the fruit sugars and acids in the grapes to produce some of the most luscious, sweet wines in the world