Fear not it can be done according to this article from CNNgo. Below are the major rules, author Joanne Yao assembles thanks to the help of Jean-Marc Nolant of Park Hyatt Shanghai and Philippe Huser of Napa Valley Wine Bar & Restaurant of Shanghai.
Mir Global definitely recommends you check out the article in its entirety where each rule is elaborated upon.
How do you pair a wine with Sichuan chicken in peppercorn lava or sweet, saucy hongshao rou? Wine pairing with Chinese food is possible, but does require significant experience. Here’s a list of suggestions, courtesy of the experts: sommeliers Jean-Marc Nolant of Park Hyatt Shanghai and Philippe Huser of Napa Valley Wine Bar & Restaurant.
Rule 1: Avoid foods that require dipping in vinegar
Rule 2: Make sure lighter flavored dishes are served first
Rule 3: Likewise, start with your white wine and then move on to red
Rule 4: Chinese food with Chinese wines? Yes, but select well
Rule 5: Choose your wine based on the preparation rather than the ingredients
Rule 6: Make sure your Chinese food and wine night is feasible
Readers of Globowines probably know that one of Mir Global Marketing LLC’s wine brands which have attracted the most attention and excitement in consumers in China have been our Friends Canned Wine. The great value and quality of Chilean wine combined with some good branding design and marketing have helped get our company attention.
It was not until recent that consumers started to give us compliments about how wine in a can could also be a great sell in China and around the world because of the environmental benefits of wine in a can.
If you go on a outdoor adventure and want to toast to a glass of wine in the middle of the wilderness, you will undoubtedly think it a hindrance to carry a heavy glass bottle of wine with you. Furthermore, what do you do with the then empty glass bottle? You must either take it back with you, or dispose of it and dirty the earth. Well with a can of wine you can simply crush the can and slip it into a side pocket in your bag.
Very cool, hip and trendy new web tv show about wine in China. The show is filmed in Shanghai and usually is not translated outside of question / answers which are addressed to English only speakers. For the Chinese speakers out there Mir Global reccomends checking out the other episodes which you can find on youku. For the English speakers out there you can feast your eyes on the first episode which has been subtitled.
Wineries eye Chinese market by Darren Snyder of the Mudgee Guardian
At least five wineries within the Mudgee region have shown they are fighting an Australian wine glut by working with the NSW government’s Asian export wine strategy.
While it has been reported the Australian wine industry is producing 20 to 40 million excess cases of wine every year, there are numerous wineries jumping on board to enter one of the world’s fastest growing wine markets.
Rapid growth in the Chinese market has been a catalyst for the State Government committing resources to local wineries in an attempt to sell more NSW wines in Asia.
Beijing wants a taste of Australian wine sector by Michael Sainsbury of The Australian
CHINESE companies are poised to target Australia’s $26 billion wine sector with a range of companies across the country — most of them government-owned — exploring deals that would result in them buying local wineries or taking equity interests in wine and beverage groups.
Australia’s largest trading partner is extending its investment activities into sectors other than mining and resources.
Shanghai-based food and beverage conglomerate Bright Group — one of China’s biggest — this week signalled its interest in paying $1.5bn cash for the sugar and renewable energy division of CSR, and is eyeing winemakers as part of a wide-ranging look at investment in Australia.
Other major beverage groups — including the massive food and drinks group COFCO, owned by the central government, which has recently stepped into the wine market in China as a major distributor — are also believed to be mulling Australian wine industry purchases.
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Grape Wall of China – CHINA is tipped to become the world’s biggest wine producer by Jane Hamilton of The Sun – UK
The Far East giant – better known for its Great Wall than its vineyards – already makes more wine than Spain and Portugal.
And with British supermarkets stocking up, experts predict it will overtake Australia in 2010 and Italy and France within 50 years.
Nine out of ten bottles of Chinese wine are red. Supermarket chain Morrisons has trialled one and now Waitrose plans to sell another.
Waitrose wine buyer Andrew Shaw said: “Chinese wine is the hot new trend. We’re hoping to have a quality one in store by the end of the year.”
[...] Click here to read the full article from The Sun – UK
Few people in China acknowledged Chile as a wine producing nation of any stature. The Chilean trade commission teamed up with Ogilvy Public Relations to change the situation with an informative online campaign.
Background
China offers huge potential for the wine industry, but being a young market, it is also full of confusion. A lack of knowledge often leads consumers to default to French wine and high prices to ensure quality while demonstrating the desired status that goes with drinking wine.
Aim
Recognizing the potential of the China market, Chile’s trade commission in Shanghai, ProChile, set out to help consumers understand that there is more to choosing wine than the price tag, and to present Chilean wine as an attractive, more affordable alternative to premium European wines.
As the winter season rages on, don’t forget one of the best ways to keep warm during the chilly season: Curling up in front of a roaring fire with a thick woolen blanket and a big goblet of hot mulled wine in your hand.
This being China, however, you may have to substitute the wine for a shot of erguotou, but worry not, because the Chinese market for wine (a daily staple of most Westerners’ diet) has been skyrocketing along with the rest of the Chinese economy.
Though in the eyes of many independent wine importers, restauranteurs and connoisseurs, attitudes toward wine in China still have a long way to go if they’re to match the ethusiaism commonly associated with French tipplers.
Guesses are, the concept of Chinese wine, taste, and design coinciding as a single concept never crosses one’s mind. A pretty smart guess. However, examining historic Chinese wine labels sheds some light on a unique design oriented past.
Not too long ago, Chinese wine connoisseurs had a diverse range of wine selections with amazingly intricate and detailed design packaging. But after foreign imported wines began entering the Chinese market, many of these wine brands died off, along with their special wine design aesthetic.
A friend of Mir Global just dropped me an email with a link to this video, shot earlier in the month when Mir Global Marketing was coincidentally in Beijing presenting our wines.
Linda Kennedy of the China Daily takes a trip to Chateau Changyu, one of China’s most recognizable domestic wine brands (Great Wall is another which comes to mind). It’s also a common sight to anyone who has spent thirty minutes watching CCTV9 during the past 6 months, where a commercial from the vineyard is constantly aired and makes the vineyard out to seem “world class.”
Perhaps it looks world class and has the big bucks to get a one year advertisement slot on CCTV9 (China’s English language channel), but according to the wine experts of Beijing, Jim Boyce and John Gai, and also my own palate, this vineyards wine is nothing special.
Watch the video and decide for yourself if you’ve been convinced to dish out $50-70 usd on a fine bottle of Chinese Cabernet Sauvignon is really worth it?
Evan Osnos, well renowned wine guru of the New Yorker, writes about China’s sudden romance with wine. The notion of getting rich by selling wine in China has a long history, which is marked almost entirely by failure.
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Prospects have sharply improved since the days of the Baron, and, today, China is one of the world’s fastest-growing wine markets. (Chinese buyers are consuming so much that they are affecting wine prices for some of the most expensive bottles.) In this video, produced by Mengfan Wu, we visit a wine class hosted by Torres China, which is trying to introduce new consumers to an unfamiliar product. We also hear from Don St. Pierre, Jr., the chief executive of A.S.C. Fine Wines, who explains why Chinese consumers sometimes prefer to down their glasses in a single enthusiastic gulp.
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