[Tainan]

Having a bit of first hand experience with is, I offer this. Mainland Chinese wine production is indeed growing. The wines currently marketed are atrocious. Too sweet and designed for local tastes which are uneducated, mainly, as to how good wine should taste.
There ares, however, a growing number of people who do have the familiarity and education in wines to start to make a difference. But it is a small vice against a large wall of sound. Wine production in China is nothing new. Wine production to meet Western standards is entirely new.

[snowsislander]

Having a bit of first hand experience with is, I offer this. Mainland Chinese wine production is indeed growing. The wines currently marketed are atrocious. Too sweet and designed for local tastes which are uneducated, mainly, as to how good wine should taste.

It's been a long while so my input is a bit dated, but some years ago I went to a blind tasting of sparkling wines that featured a Chinese entry; the Chinese entry was easily distinguished by everyone since it was putrid. I believe that it was one time that I could have legitimately used the word "skunky" to describe a wine.