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Q: Why is most domestic wine in China red?

Recently realized most domestic wine you see here is red, with the vary rare white mixed in. Why is there not more domestic white wine sold here? 

 

Also, do you have a Chinese white wine that you think is actually okay, or is it all terrible?

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Nearly all Chinese red wines of any caliber are imported and made from a blend of Algerian, Moroccan, cheap French, Chilean and Argentine crus.  In fact, there recently was an article in the People's Daily on how the very, very expensive Chateau Lafitte Rotschild red wines that one can order in the best restaurants here are just overpriced fakes.  If you are thinking of the cheap Chinese low-content alcohol sweet red wines that are just fermented grape juice, I personally find them to be abominable.  It is really hit or miss with good red wine and good white wine around here -- after all, it's an imported taste and not a domestic one.

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Because most of the wine are fakes here ....

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Because they think that wine is red wine, and they dont know about pairing wine with food.

 

So having nice wine at the table is for red wine to show importance/status.

Mr_spoon:

This.

They don't know anything about wine, so they just pick red wine because it's what you see in movies and representations of the west.

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I prefer white wine and there are some in China. I have never seen a liquor store with stock like I see at home. Most places sell cheap wine, you get what you pay for, 25y no way, have to find a better one. Most stores only seem to have a single bottle of anything I did like.

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Because it is a communist country. Red is patriotic and white is the color of foreign devils. Duh!

derek:

Now that's all cleared up.

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And all of the wine I saw was dry. One of my students seemed to love it, but I couldn't stand the taste.

TedDBayer:

I like 3 on the sweetness scale, I can drink really dry if its after the first bottle.

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