Chinese vine growing

The vine market in China stayed a modest branch of the industry directed to the production of dessert grapes to 1980's, but since, the market raised and this country is now among the important actors of the sector.

China belongs to the world of the consumers of grain alcohols as the Slavs and the Anglo-Saxons. It has never had a traditional culture of the wine developed. At present, the wine market represents approximately 2 % of the Chinese market of drinks alcoolisées (and the beer 40 %). In 2007, the annual average consumption was 0,5 liters per capital or 100 times less than the 50 liters of the French people. But the changes are very fast; so the consumption of wine increased by 29 % in 2009.

Up to the 20th century, the vine growing was essentially quartered in the western Muslim regions. Since more than a millennium, Ouïghours cultivates the vineyard on pergolae for the production of dessert grapes and raisins. The production of wines following the European processes began shyly at the end of the xixe century with the arrival of the Christian missionaries and took its flight only from the politics of reform and opening of the 1980's.

The wine remains a luxury item, consumed occasionally by the easy minority of big cities during parties or during ceremonies. To consume some wine is for the middle class the distinguishing mark of the modernity, the fashion and the good taste