The Chinese love of drinking
Chinese Whispers
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What's Going on in the North of China?
Grape wine was quite familiar already at the end of the chin dynasty, but mostly the preserve of the elite class. And what about under the communists, when these elites didn't really exist any more? Whats quite sting is that there were a lot of grape cross breeding and research programmes that were going on even in the 19 fifties. Because china is home over half of the world's grape vine species, really ar but they tend to be wild or domesticated. We're not even seeing much of the commercializs a long time in the making.
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