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Jeff
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8 months ago
in Part 1: Confessions of a Chinese Wine Consultant on Catavino
Thanks for your post, I'm looking forward to part 2. Having been to china, a country I find incredibly interesting, and working in the wine industry I can't wait to watch the wine culture there grow. Its such a huge market and I have no doubt that there is some amazing terrior to be discovered. Little insights like yours continue to convince me that I should be looking for a way to enter the wine industry in China sooner rather than later.
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Edward
Thanks, Jeff. I'll have to pen Part 2 soon. So much is going on here that I'm not sure where to start in these posts. So I've lamely opted just to go back to the beginning and try to remember how the wine market has changed here over the last two years. As to that market, it's not yet huge, of course, but potentially sizeable. Domestic wines dominate by volume. Imported wines (in bottle, not bulk imports) lead the way in terms of value (not value to the consumer, alas, but high value worth per bottle for the importers!). I think finding genuinely good places to grow grapes for wine production in China is actually going to be pretty tough; and the climate is adverse in many places (with most rain coming at harvest time). But, who knows? There may be pockets where fine wine is possible.
