Ningxia wants to become a
leading region for Wine in China
Beijing
welcomed on Thursday, September 25th a competition of tasting of about fifty
vineyards of this widely dry northern territory, in the icy winters, which registers
nevertheless lightning progress in the quality of its production.
"There
is decade, if you enjoyed 60 Chinese wines, you were happy to be able to
recommend 5 or 10 ", underlines Marcus Ford, one of the members of the jury.»
This morning, we enjoyed 47 wines of Ningxia and more or less 60 70 % were
certainly wines which you could recommend ".
"
There is from now on a much better understanding of the sharpness(delicacy),
the way of using the fruit and of keeping it in oak barrel ", pursues this
trader, expert of the Chinese market.
Shortly
populated and accommodating Muslims' Hui important community, the autonomous
region of Ningxia lived for a long time far from the priorities of investment
of the central government. Its GDP(GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT) remains one of the
lowest of China, but the authorities included that the grape could become a
last hope, even a takeoff runway for the local economy. Geographically, Ningxia offers many assets for
the vine growing.
«You find
mountains there on the West which block winds, Yellow River for the irrigation,
the adapted grounds, a lot of period of sunshine and a difference of
temperature between in daytime and harms it which favors the ripening of the
clusters ", details Jim Boyce, founder of the site grapewallofchina.com
and besides one of the organizers of the tasting.
In July,
2012, Ningxia, where most of the vineyards were planted only at the beginning
of 2000s, thus came to look for advice to producing countries. The region
selected seven wine growers among 50 - a Frenchman, a Spaniard, two
Australians, a Chilean, a South African, an American-, asking them to benefit
from their experience.
