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dbHK launches weekly Chinese newsletter
dbHK has launched a weekly Chinese newsletter to bring the latest industry news and feature stories to its growing number of Chinese language readers in Asia and around the world.
A sample of dbHK Chinese newsletter
Launched in December 2016, the weekly newsletter is designed to keep our readers up to date with the most important news, analysis and reports on wine, spirits and beer, as well as interviews with key industry heavyweights including winemakers, wine educators and sommeliers.
Within a few weeks, the Chinese newsletter has already attracted close to 4,000 subscribers including professional trade members, wine lovers and discerning consumers mainly living in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Macau.
You can click here to sign up for our weekly Chinese language newsletter sent out every Friday.
The drinks business is a leading global trade publication, boasting 3.2 million unique visitors to its website in 2016. Its daily newsletter is read by more than 22,000 people.
My comment relates to this article, published on January 13: ALIBABA TAPS AMERICAN WINE TO BOOST SINO-US TRADE
One of the statements made by Ms. Wang is “America’s Midwest is not particularly known for winemaking, due to challenging climatic conditions. California on the west coast, however, produces 90% of the country’s wines mostly in Napa Valley, Sonoma County and Los Carneros.” This is a completely false, Napa Valley produces about 4% of the wine from California. Sonoma County doubles that by supplying about 6% of the state’s wines. Napa is planted to about 45000 acres of grapes, Sonoma is 60000 acres. The Carneros region consists of only 6000 acres planted with grapes. The broad Central Valley appellation produces 75% of all California wines. Think Gallo and Constellation and their ilk. Even though the climate today leads one to believe that “facts don’t matter”, they really do. I hope to see a correction from Ms. Wang in a future article.
Thank you for a retired 33 year old grizzled veteran of the wine industry!