Wine market demand in China slowly increasing due to increased local knowledge
It appears that the wine market in China is slowly returning, following Xi Jinping's anti-corruption rules which resulted in the market in fine wines collapsing, stories of overflowing Chinese warehouses full of unwanted stocks, and importers going bankrupt.  A primary r﻿eason is that, unlike previously, the "majority of purchasing decisions are now made by the person who is going to drink the wine", says Pudao Wines' Marcus Ford, "which is a big shift". This is due to the increased education of wine by China's growing middle classes.  "Five years ago it was all Bordeaux.. now it's much more fragmented.. and there's definitely a lot more Australian, Chilean and New Zealand wine" being brought, ﻿says wine consultant Julien Boulard.

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