Food Forward: Chinese Wine

France, Italy, Spain, and Argentina are all known for producing wine. But what about China? Winemaker Emma Gao is hoping to make it so. The wine she produces at Silver Heights vineyard in the country’s Ningxia region is winning over critics and wine drinkers at home and abroad. With ambitions to make Ningxia China’s Napa Valley—the renowned Californian winemaking region that sparked scandal at the 1976 Judgment of Paris blind tasting by stealing first place from a French wine—Gao is championing the region as “a new world in the new world.” Read more on NOWNESS - http://bit.ly/2e3P9Th

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