A group of wine associations from different parts of China has founded a trade body to increase the sales of domestic wines, marking a new level of co-operation between the country’s wine regions.
China’s wine grape planting accounts for only a small percentage of its total grape plantings, according to industry officials, casting doubt on widespread reports this week that China has more land under vine than France.
Moët Hennessy Estates & Wines, producers of wines including Cloudy Bay and Cheval des Andes, is due to bottle its highly anticipated Chinese red wine within the next few weeks, with an international launch due for Autumn 2015.
ASC Fine Wines, a major Chinese importer of premium wine, has announced that its chief executive, John Watkins, will leave the company at the end of May.
Wines made from two regions in Xinjiang are expected to receive geographical indication protection in China, marking the autonomous region’s latest efforts to boost its upcoming wine industry.
Ningxia is to establish a specialist vocational college to train an ‘all-round’ young generation of wine professionals ‘from planting to winemaking’.
Shenzhen’s quarantine authority has launched a system that claims to be able to identify a wine’s origin by examining its chemical make-up, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of counterfeit wines in Mainland China.
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