ChangYu Wine Company

CHINA OPENS THE LARGEST CHÂTEAU IN ASIA

Changyu Pioneer Wine Co, China’s oldest wine company and largest winemaker by sales, opened a new chateau in Shaanxi province on Oct 9, according to China Daily.

The 600 million yuan (£61.3million) Château Changyu Reina covers a total area of 73.3 hectares in Weicheng district of Xianyang, Shaanxi province. It is expected to produce 3,000 tons of premium wine a year.

The château is built in...

Changyu Pioneer Wine Company is China’s largest wine producer, as well as one of its oldest. The company is on a quest to develop European-style chateaus, which are based architecturally on Bordeaux-style chateau. Two of their wineries are represented by Berry Bros & Rudd. One is Chateau Changyu Moser XV in Ningxia. The other is Chateau Changyu Golden Ice Wine Valley in Liaoning.

There are six other wineries owned by the company. Combined w...

The Chateau has cooperated with Moser family, a well-known wine making family that is expert in wine grape planting in Europe, and invited Moser, the 15th descendant of the family to hold the post of chief wine maker, and named the Chateau after him.

With summer now officially underway, thoughts turn to al fresco dining accompanied by suitably chilled and refreshing wines. Foreign wines are nothing new in China but what maybe new are Chinese wines on foreign tables. More and more, wine critics are giving high ratings to Chinese wines and reputed wine merchants such as Berry Bros & Rudd in London are now importing them. To learn more about the subject of Chinese wines Nicely Made in China r...