KANAAN WINERY: PROVING ‘NEIGH-SAYERS’ WRONG?
Kanaan’s range of wines which are inspired by the winemaker’s love of horses could buck Hong Kong’s European wine drinking trends as they launch in the city later on this month.
Its 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot blend was described by Jancis Robinson during a Chinese wine tasting as: “The wine that I thought was best of all turned out to be made by a Chinese woman called Crazy Fang on a new...
One of the famous Chinese boutique wineries run by the esteemed winemaker, Wang Fang. After spending 12 years abroad, she returned to China and followed her father's footsteps in fine wine making in Ningxia.
Kanaan is an expression her love for Ningxia as well as the passion for horses. The Horse motif runs throughout the Kanaan story as a tribute to the Mountain and ancient local word for horse of “Helan”.
The Kanaan Name is Fang’s trib...
The international wine exhibition she attended with her father had such an impact on her that the following year she returned to China to start her own winery without any experience.
“Looking back, I can see that the persistence for crafting fine wines was already running in my veins,” she says.
In 2011, she opened Kanaan Winery in Ningxia. Her father taught her a lot about viticulture, but she says sh...
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