Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
We had booked this trip to visit Italian Village and Petite France, along with Nami Island and Gangchon Rail Bike. If I was given the choice again, I probably would not have added these two places as part of our day trip. It felt a bit too too rushed and it was an extremely hot summer’s day.
The Champagne region is located in north-eastern France and is world-renowned for its quality sparkling wines. It covers an area of approximately 34,000 hectares on which both prestigious champagne houses and small producers coexist . The Champagne region is divided into five sub-regions which are La Montagne de Reims, La Vallée de la Marne, Côte des Blancs, Côte de Sézanne, and Aube. Even if they all produce excellent champagnes, La Montagne de Reims and La Vallée de la Marne stand out from the others. Here’s why!
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.
