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(From Off Licence News)
Byline: Laura Clark
Morrisons is claiming to be the first UK supermarket to sell Chinese wine.
The retailer has added two wines from the north west of China to its portfolio. Silk Road Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay both retail for AGBP5.99 and are 100% pure varietal wines.
Grant Eastwood, Morrisons' licensed trades director, believes China has the potential to make wine that can compete with the world's best-selling wine-producing countries, such as Australia. "With their technology and ability, combined with a couple more years' experience in this industry, they'll be producing more excellent wines. They remind me of Australia in the early 90s, when they started to put down vines," he said.
Eastwood added that Chinese wine "could take on the world if ...