How Chinese learn to drink wine

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 04:57 — Anonymous China uncorks more than 1.2 billion
bottles of wine every year. A great deal of them are expensive imported
grapes, like French Bordeaux or Italian Barolo. And most importantly, the
majority of drinkers are local Chinese.Yet wine still remains a conundrum to
even the most educated Chinese: obscure words describing exotic vines,
mysterious tasting notes referring to uncommon comestibles (wine drinkers are
challenged when it comes to finding licorice or blackberries in a local
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