China’s top 10 biggest wine importers 17th November, 2015 by Patrick Schmitt The latest figures on wine sales in China show a market back in growth. We look at the performance of the top 10 importers by country. As previously reported by the drinks business, the market for wine in China appears to be experiencing a bounce back, with almost a 50% year-on-year volume increase and 30% value increase, according to official Chinese customs data covering the period from January to September this year. While sales of imported wine never actually suffered negative growth in China, the rate of increase slowed from 65% in 2011 to just 3% during 2014, following the introduction of austerity measures by president Xi Jingping in 2013. The main impact of this new political climate has been felt by French fine wine, but more notably in volume terms, domestically produced wine, which has fallen by 16% in the last two years from a peak of 142m cases in 2012 to 119m at the end of 2014.

Nevertheless, imported wine sales are growing faster in volume than value, with almost all imported wine country categories seeing a decline in their average prices, and it is bulk wine that is experiencing the greatest growth, up 100% from January to September compared to the same period in 2014. Consequently, bulk wine now totals 98 million litres, one third of the 298m litre total imported wine market in China (which in turn is 28% of the domestic wine market, which amounts to 1,071m litres).buy wine in nice france The top 10 by volume can be viewed over the following pages.best wine ordering sites Subscribe to our newslettersbest wine for cheese pizza Ornellaia collection makes $112,500 in NYCwine in india cost

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Deadline : 3rd May 2017 The Global Organic Masters 2017 The Global Sparkling Masters 2017 Deadline : 12th May 2017 Global Chardonnay Masters 2016 Now in its fourth year, the competition will identify the best Chardonnay from all around the world in every price range. Now in its fifth year, the competition will recognise and reward the finest Riojas on the world stage. Now in its third year, The Fortified Masters will reward the best fortified wines on offer. The Global Malbec Masters 2016 the drinks business is proud to announce the inaugural Global Malbec Masters 2016.This piece originally aired July 8, 2015.When you think of wine, France, Italy and California likely come to mind, but in China, the world's fifth-largest consumer and producer, winemakers are determined to add that country to the list, CBS News' Seth Doane reports.The desert in Ningxia is being transformed.It's taking billions of gallons of water to irrigate fields there each year and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment to make it China's wine country."

I've been to every other wine region in the world, and I thought, wine near the Gobi Desert, impossible, right? But, boy, wine near the Gobi Desert -- it is a reality, and it's a big reality," wine expert and author Karen MacNeil said.Now, MacNeil is updating her book "The Wine Bible," writing for magazines and trying to understand these really "new world" wines.MacNeil said she tastes 3,000 wines a year and has for 30 years."So I think I have a good understanding of when wine has potential and when it doesn't," she said.Wine importer Heng Rui said China's wine producers are now developing their own flavors, not just copying others."We're influenced by western media," Heng said. "And more Chinese are traveling overseas and bringing back wine culture."MacNeil said it only takes money to buy all the great wine in the world, but it takes expertise to make wine.At the vineyards of Ningxia, MacNeil toured and tasted wines -- sometimes, right from the barrel. The region is about 500 miles west of Beijing and has more than 50 wineries."

Our grandchildren will probably know this like they'll know any other wine region in the world," she said.There are about 80,000 acres of vineyards planted in Ningxia. By 2020, they plan to have more than 160,000. That's more than three times the amount in Napa. Napa did it in a century. Ningxia only took a decade.The region also boasts Chandon, a sprawling, state-of-the-art winery part of a $28 million co-investment between a Chinese company and luxury goods giant LVMH."For LVMH, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, to spend this kind of money here is a big thumbs-up in terms of its confidence in the Chinese market," MacNeil said."We start from scratch," said Chandon general manager Shen Yang. "We build up the winery, the vineyards - everything."Yang is Chinese, but his English has the slightest French accent."I learned winemaking in France, so I want to bring this 'savoir-faire' in China," he said.But Yang pointed out some very specific challenges in the fields."We have to bury the vines every year in winter and de-bury the vines in spring," Yang said.