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How does Chinese Wine Compare with French Wine?

With a burgeoning middle class, the Chinese have quickly developed a taste for fine wine. French and Italy for the last decade or so have made a lot of inroads into China and have a huge market to sell to.

As China develops their taste for wine, they have surely realized that it makes more sense to grow their own grapes and develop their own industry. Why import wine when they can simply do it themselves?

And they have started to do just that. Chinese wineries are growing all the time and now they seem poised to overtake their European competition. In this article, I will go over how different Chinese wine is from French to get an idea of the landscape in the wine world in China.

Come & Join in the runDisney Paris 2017

Last weekend, we had the most amazing experience to be involved with runDisney Paris. This will be their second year of running this runDisney Paris event. Also, to mark the 25^th Anniversary of Disneyland Paris, they are guaranteeing a varied fun-filled programme of events for The Half-Marathon Weekend in Val d’Europe, from 21^st to 24^th September 2017.

Carcassonne board game Review

Carcassonne is a tile-based strategy board game that sees players compete to build the best cities, roads and farms. It was designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and has spawned many expansions and spin-offs, and several PC, console and mobile versions. This board game is suitable for ages seven and above and can be played by 2 to 5 players. It is available to buy from Esdevium store finder or on Amazon.

Almond & Sunflower Seed Tuiles

This is another recipe from The Secret of Cookies by Gu Huixue. In her book she has a recipe to bake almond tuiles. Instead of using all almond flakes, I am using a mix of sunflower seeds and almond flakes. Also one of the ingredients is cake flour which I replaced with plain flour.