Wine in China – you must read this

Even if you do not regularly scroll through the hundreds of threads on the members' forum, I urge you to take a look at Chinese Wines again recently posted by our friend Marcus Ford of Shanghai.

He reports on a fascinating, if deeply depressing, recent blind tasting of the Chinese wines most widely available in China, mixed up with some imported wines commonly sold there.

Just as interesting as the results – my favourite Grace together with Catai did best – are Chinese producers' reactions to this exercise. Do read it, and another extermely well-informed long, earlier thread on the Chinese...