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11.24.15How China Conquered France’s Wine Country
New Republic
French connoisseurs sold the Chinese pomp and prestige, until they started manufacturing it themselves.
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07.01.14Billionaire South African Family Sells Wine to China Rich
Bloomberg
When 45 alumni of Tsinghua University, the alma mater of China’s last two leaders, stopped for lunch at La Motte vineyard in South Africa two years ago, they ordered 1.5 million rand ($141,000) of wine to take away.
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08.05.13Move Over Bordeaux: French Premium Winemakers Eye China Vintage
Reuters
In a country where cheap plonk and overpriced mediocre wines still define the domestic industry, the French are partnering with Chinese investors to produce super-premium wines for increasingly discerning drinkers at the market’s top end.
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07.02.13What Will Get Chinese People to Sip Bubbly?
Quartz
Though China is the world’s fifth-largest wine market, people just don’t go for bubbly that much. Moët Hennessy is trying to alter that trend by opening a new French chateau in poor and predominantly Muslim Ningxia.
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07.19.12
Vineyards Pop Corks on Chinese Wine Investors
Wine-tasting party conversations among investors in China are increasingly sounding like sour grapes.Some well-heeled wine investors have been anxiously debating whether a price bubble for investment-grade wine is getting ready to burst. Others...