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.
[Source] : Singapore Exhibition Services by 2010-01-05 via wines-info.com
Singpore will host hundreds of wines from around the world in April, with the fourth annual WSA Wine Challenge.
The WSA Wine Challenge 2010 (formerly known as the Wine & Spirits Asia Challenge), seeks to promote knowledge, prestige and value of world-class wines to Asia. The competition will feature the participation of wineries, winemakers, wine importers and traders from all over the world.
Submissions will be judged by country, region and varietal. Special awards will be bestowed to the Best Red, Best White, Best Sparkling and Best Wine of Challenge.
The event is now open for entries.The deadline for entry is March 15 2010, and all entry wines must be shipped to the competition venue by April 6 2010. The wines will be judged on April 17 to 19 at the Raffles Town Club, and final results will be announced on April 19 2010.
The WSA Wine Challenge was formed as a part of WSA (Wine & Spirits Asia), an international trade event dedicated to wine and spirits products and services. The exhibition serves as a platform to connect wine and spirits buyers from Asia with international sellers. Winning wines will be prominently displayed and opened for tasting at the WSA2010 show floor from 20 to 23 April 2010, presenting winning wines the chance for exposure to potential wine buyers from Asia’s food and hospitality industry.
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?
Inconsistency… Oh “sigh…,” Argentina. So much potential, yet always able to sporadically disappoint (which you will see upon watching the episode, which includes three bad apples).
One of the primary reasons, Mir Global Marketing LLC heavily investigated and nurtured our collaborations down in Argentina. The country is home to perhaps one of the most conducive soils for producing wine, yet remains riddled with bureaucratic and inefficient institutions which impede it from truly flourishing.
The second Australian Wine and Food festival, with over 150 kinds of wine and dishes of Australia, will open in late May in the New World Saigon Hotel.
“We want to prove that Vietnam is a country where tea, beer and whiskey are popular. This event is a chance to popularize Australia to South East Asia”, said Jim Cawood, chief executive officer of Vino Vietnam, the Australian wine importer and distributor and the host of the event.
The festival will have the participation of numerous restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City.
Australian well-known chef, Paul McMahon, from Catalina Restaurant Rose Bay in Sydney will make a perfect menu for lunch and dinner for the whole week, in which Australian food matches the correct wine.
In addition to the two day festival, held by the Australian General Consul and co-sponsored by ANZ, Jetstar, New World Hotel Saigon, RED and the World Magazine, the first Australian Wine Competition will be on May 28th, aiming to name the best Australian wine on the market.
The winning wine will be served at the Gala Evening scheduled for the following day.
Twenty years ago New Zealand barely had a wine industry. Now now only are their wines found on shelves in Europe, North America and Asia.
Zealand’s wine exports have grown at an average of 23.8% over the past two years, four times the rate of growth in any other export sector.
Marlborough, one of New Zealand’s primier wine growing regions and home to the country’s most famous Sauvignon Blanc’s, now accounts for 20% of ecomonomy. Not bad for a industry which as I already mentioned did not really exist 20 years ago…
“For the industry the NZIER report represents a very positive analysis of the contribution grape growing and winemaking make to the New Zealand economy. That contribution totals over $3.5 billion of revenue through our own direct sales and the sales we generate in related sectors such as the tourism and hospitality industries,” Winegrowers chairman Stuart Smith says, according to a news report by the NZ National Business Review.
India, a relative new comer in the global wine scene is now looking to use growth of New Zealand’s wine industry as a template for nurturing their own infant industry.
Wairau Valley, Marlborough – New Zealand
Here are a few excerpts from a interesting article covering this topic, courtesy of The Indian Wine Academy.
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In India, Sula took the lead in wine tourism with a tasting room and a reasonably world-class structure has been commissioned but nothing much has been done by Indage or Grover- though Indage opened a wine bar outside the winery with a modern tasting room inside and Grover has also opened a tasting room recently.
The infra-structure to travel to Nashik is practically non-existent. It takes over 5 hours to reach Nashik from the airport with a private taxi and once you reach there, finding the winery locations is a nightmare for most visitors.
The tourism ministry does not seem to pay much attention to this aspect either. Even Destination India 2009 project to promote tourism in India seems to have ignored this lucrative part of the tourism. Hopefully, the Nashik grape growers association or the newly formed National Grape Board would have a look at the potential honey pot when it gets down to business.
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