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« Reply #15 on: September 05, 2007, 06:57:59 AM »


for truly decent Chinese red wines, go ahead and read www.grapewallofchina.com

My absolute favorite at teh moment is made by grace vineyards and it compares favorably to most australian or chilean wines.

as far as the standard run of the mill reds, there is a plain bottle of great wall sold everywhere in bum f@ck middle of china for about 25 RMB that is just amazing... (we went through about 20 cases this past bootcamp) unfortunately, i have yet to see that specific bottle in a big city.

next in line is a yellow label great wall that retails for 40-46 rmb with has a nice fruity after taste and a good bite to it, it says merlot on the bottle but it's more like a cabernet.

I haven't been able to sample the suntime yet but i'll set out on a mission to find some this weekend.
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« Reply #16 on: September 05, 2007, 01:00:41 PM »
I'll second that Great Wall "merlot". 
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« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2007, 01:34:08 AM »
When choosing a wine, it's important to look at the ingredients. Chinese wines tend to use lots of sugar. But, there are some wines with low sugar amounts. Even living in smaller towns, we were able to find wine that tasted like wine. But, even so it's still hit and miss.
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« Reply #18 on: September 06, 2007, 09:17:35 AM »
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there is a plain bottle of great wall sold everywhere in bum f@ck middle of china for about 25 RMB that is just amazing...
I can get that at RT-Mart, but nowhere else, I've found!!
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« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2007, 06:30:04 AM »
Quote from: book_worm on September 06, 2007, 01:34:08 AM
When choosing a wine, it's important to look at the ingredients. Chinese wines tend to use lots of sugar. But, there are some wines with low sugar amounts. Even living in smaller towns, we were able to find wine that tasted like wine. But, even so it's still hit and miss.

There's usually a clue on the bottle about this... the sugary ones tend to have 'fruitier' pics and to be cheaper (e.g. 10 RMB for a huge bottle)
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« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2007, 10:18:22 AM »
Out of all the red wines I have drank while on this visit to China, the best brand by far, has been Fengshou (or harvest). Metro carries it, and it is also easy to find in Beijing, but in other places it seems to be a little bit harder to find. I have only tried the under 50 kuai bottles, but have yet to find a bad one. Most of them are quite passable, including the 17 kuai one. My favourite was their exquisite dry red which runs about 39 kuai.
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