I got an email recently from a friend in France who had just lunched with the famous but reclusive Meursault producer Jean-Fran?ois Coche of Coche-Dury. Could I get hold of some Chinese wine, he pleaded, because Jean-Fran?ois is extremely keen to taste it. I encounter this sort of curiosity all over the wine world now because China is already the fifth-biggest producer of wine globally and yet Chinese wine is rarely seen outside its borders. Exports may be minimal at the moment but as production volumes continue to grow, it is likely that Chinese wine will increasingly find its way to palates more sophisticated than the average Chinese ones and its quality intrigues many of us wine professionals.
最近我收到了一位法國朋友的郵件，而且是在與美素(Mersault)地區大隱于市的科施?杜里(Coche-Dury)莊園的讓-弗朗索瓦?科施(Jean-Fran?ois Coche)共進午餐之后就立刻發給我的。在郵件中他懇求能夠得到一些中國葡萄酒，因為讓-弗朗索瓦非常渴望嘗一嘗。如今我在全世界范圍內都能遇到類似對中國葡萄酒的好奇者，因為中國已經成為全球第五大葡萄酒生產國，而這里生產的葡萄酒極少出現在國外市場上。盡管中國葡萄酒目前的出口量非常低，但隨著產量的持續提高，將來應該會有越來越多的比本國消費者更挑剔的外國人嘗到他們的酒，同時其質量水平也會引起我們這些專業人士的興趣。