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Made in China...wine that may soon rival the best of Bordeaux
scotsman.com ^ | William Lyons and Nathalie Thomas

Posted on 05/25/2008 12:25:42 PM PDT by DogBarkTree

BORDEAUX, Burgundy… Xinjiang. The world's wine map may have to be significantly re-drawn with figures showing more than a glass is being raised to China. Such is the pace of wine consumption in China that last year the country produced more than 700 million bottles with new statistics showing that production will outstrip Australia's by 2009.

Supermarket chain Morrisons has already added two wines ADVERTISEMENT from the north-west of China to its portfolio, while London fine wine merchants Berry Brothers & Rudd (BBR) has predicted that, by 2058, China will have all the essential ingredients to make fine wine to rival the best of Bordeaux. Jasper Morris, senior buyer for BBR, says he expects China's current 400 wineries to grow by more than tenfold with up to a quarter producing fine quality wine.

"I absolutely think China will be a fine wine player rivalling the best wines from France. It is entirely conceivable that, in such a vast country, there will be pockets of land with a terroir and micro-climate well suited to the production of top quality wines."

Wine consumption is rocketing in China. More than a 100 wineries have opened since 1996, swelling the number of vineyards to more than 500.

(Excerpt) Read more at scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bordeaux; burgundy; china; france; oenology; trade; wine; xinjiang
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With all the well priced fine wines from OZ and other places and boycotts lifted on France the Chicoms may find market penetration rather tough. Who needs their lead tainted cr@p anyway?
1 posted on 05/25/2008 12:25:42 PM PDT by DogBarkTree
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To: DogBarkTree

Agreed. No one in his right mind buys anything from China if he can help it. Lead would be the least noxious of things the Chinese would add.


2 posted on 05/25/2008 12:32:26 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Better to have your enemy before you than beside you or behind you.)
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To: DogBarkTree

Made in Chine. ROFLOL, now what kind of tree sap are they going to add to wine, and how about that yellow river water they clean their equipment with. I’m not going to drink it!!


3 posted on 05/25/2008 12:32:56 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: DogBarkTree
Who needs their lead tainted cr@p anyway?

I think it was the Romans who found that putting their wine in lead lined amphoras improved its taste. Some people might go for it. Heck - there are people who sniff bicycle glue and gasoline fumes for highs. You never know...

4 posted on 05/25/2008 12:33:27 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: DogBarkTree

I hear Chinese Leadonnay is a tad heavy and somewhat metallic.


5 posted on 05/25/2008 12:34:38 PM PDT by A message
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To: DogBarkTree

http://www.sulawines.com/


6 posted on 05/25/2008 12:35:22 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: DogBarkTree
I have a slogan for the Chinese wine purveyors:

"It'll put lead in your pencil!"


7 posted on 05/25/2008 12:37:50 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This tagline has been banned or suspended.)
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To: E. Cartman

Lead is only one of many “heavy metals” one would expect in Chinese wine.


8 posted on 05/25/2008 12:40:54 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: DogBarkTree

Ah yes ~ a strong fruity foundation with notes of elderberry, licorice, lead pipe, benzene and bromated methylene.


9 posted on 05/25/2008 12:43:14 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: DogBarkTree

LOL ....agree !

What is the ethylene glycol and lead content of their “Whine” ?;o)


10 posted on 05/25/2008 12:46:04 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: DogBarkTree

most laughable indeed. I have enough trouble going to California or Australia. They may attempt wine wine, but as anybody who has drank Nikka or other Japanese whiskeys can attest, its all about terroir (the land).

Adding in, as other have presented, that its the Chinese anyway. So it will sound good, patriotic Chinese will buy it, but it will still taste like paint thinner.

My coworkers husband did an ad for Great Wall, the #1 wine in China. When I asked him what he thought of it, he said “swill”.


11 posted on 05/25/2008 12:52:27 PM PDT by flushing_kenny (870 square feet of living space and proud of it)
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To: DogBarkTree

Château Leadmine

Or

Château Melamine-Rothschild

?

Personally, I’d just as soon drink antifreeze and cut out the chinese profiteers.


12 posted on 05/25/2008 12:52:43 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg ("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
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You do realize that when the muslims complete their take-over of france every vine will be uprooted and burned in the name of sharia law, don't you?
13 posted on 05/25/2008 12:58:34 PM PDT by null and void (The one word of Chinese our congress really understands is 'kowtow')
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“Ah yes ~ a strong fruity foundation with notes of elderberry, licorice, lead pipe, benzene and bromated methylene.”

Now THAT’s funny! :)

And I’m sorry, I’m not drinking a wine called “Xinjiang.” There’s nothing even remotely romantic or intoxicating about that sound. At all. Trivial and superficial? Absolutely.


14 posted on 05/25/2008 12:58:51 PM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: DogBarkTree

With or without Ethylene Glycol.


15 posted on 05/25/2008 1:01:20 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Yardstick

Oh....but....it’s....CHEAP!!!!


16 posted on 05/25/2008 1:01:54 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Liberals learning curves are pretty flat,)
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You do realize that when the muslims complete their take-over of france every vine will be uprooted and burned in the name of sharia law, don't you?

And Chinese wine will be the flamable liquid that starts the fire.
17 posted on 05/25/2008 1:05:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I miss the days when only the politicians were unethical.)
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To: E. Cartman

I don’t know about that. If the Chinese come up with some good wine, I’ll be mighty happy to share it with them.


18 posted on 05/25/2008 1:17:36 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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I don’t know about that. If the Chinese come up with some good wine, I’ll be mighty happy to share it with them.

Best you have your Chinese "wine" first carefully analyzed for everything prior to consumption, and given the readiness with which the Chicoms are happy to adulterate the cheap crap they peddle to the West, be sure to include cat piss and formaldehyde on that list.

19 posted on 05/25/2008 1:39:39 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Better to have your enemy before you than beside you or behind you.)
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To: DogBarkTree

Let the russians drink it.


20 posted on 05/25/2008 1:52:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone (When Shall We Have The Courage Our Founders Had? It's Time For The 2nd American Revolution.)
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