The 29th Class of OIV MSc Finished China Module in Yantai
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2017-06-27 18:18 Source£º
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From June 5th to June 6th,the 29th Class of OIV MSc travelled in Yantai region,the last stop of their China module.They visited Lafite Domain of Penglai,Treaty Port Vineyards,Chateau Junding,COFCO Greatwall (Yantai) Company,Zhangyu Wine Culture Museum, Pula Valley,China national wine quality supervision and inspection center and Yantai Best Wine Cellar.
The Penglai wine region visit got strongly support from Penglai grape and wine bureau.Shen Guoquan,the section chief shared information about the region's historical development and industrial planning and accompanied the whole visit.On June 5th,the group first visited Lafite Domain of Penglai.Winemaker Liang introduced the winery's current construction,planted varieties and local climate while taking them around.Some students asked if Lafite group satisfied with Penglai climate and its wines.During visit,we found expanded new vineyards,lafite still have the confidence in Penglai.
In Treaty Port Vineyards,the students were shocked by the massive Scottish Castle.You can find many Chinese and western cultural decorations.Winemaker prepared a bottle of rose (sangiovese,Grenache Noir,Muscat blanc)and red wine(merlot,cabernet sauvignon, Petit Verdot) for tasting.It's the first time to taste Penglai wines,they're very excited and asked winemaker about wine blending.
After the whole visit in chateau Junding,the group tasted 3 Junding wines,Riesling white,Petit Verdot red wine and Petit Manseng sweet white wine.The delicate and elegance of Shandong region wines impressed them.
In COFCO Greatwall (Yantai) company,winemaker Li Jin took them around the winery and cellar.COFCO Greatwall is China's first digital winery in the wine industry which developed wine whole industry chain information system.Li Jin introduced that the project include "intelligent vineyard management platform", "informationize wine production and management platform", "the whole process of quality and safety control platform" and "consumer whole industry chain quality tracking platform".In the winery's newly-built experience center,the students watched a film of Penglai wine region,then tasted 4 Greatwall wines, ,covers sparkling,white and red.
On June 6th,the group visited Changyu wine culture museum and its 100 years of undergroud cellar.In tasting room,they tasted Changyu-Castel white,Jie Bai Na red,Changyu moser XV Legend red,Changyu-Castel Cabernet Gernischt,Changyu moser XV red and Keya XO.The students spoke highly of Changyu's cabernet Gernischt and Changyu moser XV wines.
After that,the group visited Pula Valley.Deputy general manager Lin Yansheng took them around wine bar,library,world wine exhibition center and other supporting facilities.In Pula vally chateau Shuiyun,Winemaker Xia Guangli introduced it's a small experimental winery,only make small batch of wines.Then she shared two wines for tasting,Riesling and Chardonnay.The Riesling was nicely made.
At China national wine quality supervision and inspection center,deputy director Zhao Yongfu gave an introduction of the center's historic development and responsibilities. Founded in 1989,the center was China's first quality supervision and inspection institution for wines,which in charge of market sampling inspection and quality supervision.In recent years,it has made great contributions for China wine industry's healthy development.Besides,the center also actively involved in the formulation of national standards.
In the evening,the students guested in Yantai Best Wine Cellar.Jim Sun,chief editor of winechina.com gave warm welcome to them.In the cellar,you can find Chinese wines from different regions.The cellar is the image store for Pucui Fine Wine Alliance,which gathers 12 boutique Chinese wineries/Chateaux from China's main wine regions,ningxia,xinjiang and Hebei.
During dinner,Jim Sun shared many stylistic Chinese wines,like Chinese new year celebration wine (ºØËê¾Æ£©from shanxi Grace vineyard,fresh rose wine(ÏʾÆ) from chateau Rongzi,silver heights chardonnay,sweet white wine made by the crystal grape(Ë®¾§)from Xinjiang Chateau Tangtingxialu and Shangri-La A5 from Yunnan.
Through the China Module,we hope the 29th Class of OIV MSc can have better understanding of Chinese wine market and Chinese wine industry.It's the first time for them to visit China.Before coming to China,they have little information about Chinese wine industry.Someone said it's a new discovery tour and compeltely changed their perceptions about Chinese wines and China wine industry.
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