Chinese wines beat French in tasting, but it`s not best vs best
Baku, December 22 (AZERTAC). Chinese wines took the top four places in a China vs Bordeaux blind tasting competition on Wednesday, but it wasn`t exactly a thrashing of the world`s most elite wines by Chinese upstarts.
The wines were all red , mostly Cabernet Sauvignon-based Bordeaux-style blends. The Chinese side was represented by five of what are considered among the best Chinese wines produced; the French wines were five more pedestrian reds from Bordeaux negociants and commercial labels, not chateau-bottled wines.
They ranged in price from about 200 yuan to 350 yuan ($30-$55).
Five French and five Chinese judges tasted the wines blind at a wine bar in Beijing. In the end, the 2009 Chairman`s Reserve from China`s Grace Vineyards in Ningxia province came out on top.
In second place was Silver Heights` "The Summit" 2009; in third was 2009 Jiabeilan. Grace Vineyards` Deep Blue 2009 took fourth place. Like all the Chinese wines in the tasting they too were from Ningxia, a small, sparsely populated region in north-central China.
Fifth place went to Saga Medoc 2009 from Barons de Rothschild Collection, a commercial label from the owner of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, which scored the highest of the French wines in the tasting.
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