{"id":1907,"date":"2012-06-12T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2012-06-12T08:42:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:42:55","slug":"sacramento-bee-chinese-wine-buyers-visit-lodi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/sacramento-bee-chinese-wine-buyers-visit-lodi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Bee-Chinese wine buyers visit Lodi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2012\/06\/12\/4554935\/lodi-vintners-welcome-chinese.html\">http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2012\/06\/12\/4554935\/lodi-vintners-welcome-chinese.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LODI \u2013 With bottles ready for tasting, a group of Lodi wine producers waited<br \/>\nanxiously Friday morning for a delegation of monied business people they hoped<br \/>\nto impress. The vintners burst into applause when the group finally arrived,<br \/>\nover an hour late.<\/p>\n<p>These honored guests weren&#8217;t Hollywood moguls or Silicon Valley venture<br \/>\ncapitalists. They were potential customers and investors from the city of<br \/>\nShenyang in northern China, coming to check out Lodi as a potential source of<br \/>\naffordable wine to supply China&#8217;s rapidly growing market.<\/p>\n<p>A second delegation from Shanghai is scheduled to visit Lodi today, exploring<br \/>\npotential business partnerships with the state&#8217;s largest wine grape growing<br \/>\nregion. Chinese investors are also eyeing Northern California vineyards.<\/p>\n<p>The rising middle class in China and other Asian-Pacific countries is fueling<br \/>\none of the wine world&#8217;s fastest-growing markets. According to the McKinsey<br \/>\nGlobal Institute, China is expected to add 235 million consumers by 2020 and<br \/>\nwill account for 20 percent of the global luxury market by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. wineries exported $62 million in wine to China in 2011, a 42 percent<br \/>\nincrease from 2010, according to the Wine Institute, an advocacy group for<br \/>\nCalifornia&#8217;s $61.5 billion wine industry. Exports to Hong Kong jumped 39 percent<br \/>\nin the same period, to $163 million.<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers \u2013 while small compared with the total market \u2013 have grabbed the<br \/>\nattention of Northern California wineries looking for alternatives to the<br \/>\ncutthroat competition of U.S. wine sales. California wine makes up 90 percent of<br \/>\nU.S. exports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you structure the deal correctly, it&#8217;s both safer and more profitable to<br \/>\nsell to China than it is to sell domestically,&#8221; said Frank Gayaldo, director of<br \/>\ninternational development for the Lodi District Chamber of Commerce and<br \/>\norganizer of Friday&#8217;s tasting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imports are eating up roughly 20 percent of our domestic (wine) market, and<br \/>\nit&#8217;s difficult for small wineries to get good distribution contracts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One Lodi winery at Friday&#8217;s tasting already sells more wine in China than in<br \/>\nthe United States. Benson Ferry Vineyards has shipped wine to China since 2007,<br \/>\nmostly to Beijing. It exported 2,000 cases of pinot grigio and 4,000 cases of<br \/>\nmerlot in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s over 80 wineries in Lodi, and we&#8217;re just one,&#8221; said Wendy Stokes,<br \/>\nwho oversees sales and marketing for Benson Ferry. &#8220;Right now, China&#8217;s an open<br \/>\nmarket and we&#8217;re looking to expand in all parts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Along with a growing taste for designer clothes and high-end watches, China<br \/>\nand other Asian nations are deepening their thirst for wine. At first, Chinese<br \/>\nconsumers were interested mostly in elite California brands and highly coveted<br \/>\n&#8220;first-growth&#8221; French wines, such as Chateau Petrus and Chateau Lafite<br \/>\nRothschild, which sell for thousands of dollars per bottle. Now, a softening<br \/>\nAsian economy has led to more interest in value-friendly California brands, such<br \/>\nas those from Lodi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re looking at Lodi and even Napa for bottles in the $20 to $30 range<br \/>\nthat are tasting good,&#8221; said Turino Fuad of VINX International, Inc., a Gold<br \/>\nRiver wine brokerage. &#8220;As brokers, we continue to educate our partners about<br \/>\nwhere wines are coming from. What is Lodi known for? What is Amador know for?<br \/>\nChina&#8217;s learning the market faster than we think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>France still leads other countries for wine exports to China, followed by<br \/>\nAustralia and Chile. Market share for the United States remains small, about 5<br \/>\npercent, said Rex Zhang of the U.S. Agricultural Trade Office in Shenyang, who<br \/>\naccompanied the Chinese delegation Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my area it&#8217;s even lower,&#8221; Zhang said of Shenyang. &#8220;Americans consume<br \/>\nabout 80 percent of their total production, and haven&#8217;t had to depend on the<br \/>\noverseas market that much. Now, they&#8217;re seeing big potential in China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the delegation included Yuan Tuo, a sales manager for<br \/>\nShenyang Wine Fairy Tales Trade Co., and representatives from Shenyang Jiatong<br \/>\nTrade Co. Along with a morning tasting near downtown Lodi, the delegation toured<br \/>\nSorelle Winery on Highway 88, Omega Vineyards &amp; Winery and Oak Ridge<br \/>\nWinery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the beginning we knew California, then we knew Napa and now Lodi,&#8221; said<br \/>\nDavid Hua of the Dalian Wine Association, who acted as a consultant for the<br \/>\ndelegation. &#8220;I enjoy (Lodi wines), but they&#8217;re a little different. It&#8217;s a little<br \/>\nsweet, but easy to drink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>California wineries are selling more of their product to other Asian<br \/>\ncountries as well. U.S. exports to Japan rose 39 percent in 2011, to $105<br \/>\nmillion. Sales to Vietnam jumped 266 percent \u2013 to $21 million.<\/p>\n<p>Exchanges between Lodi wineries and Chinese business delegates started in<br \/>\n2008. The Wine Institute has also organized trade missions to China with<br \/>\nCalifornia vintners for 12 years, including a California delegation to Hong Kong<br \/>\nin May representing 250 wine brands.<\/p>\n<p>The Wine Institute has targeted China with an ad campaign that joins the<br \/>\nwords &#8220;Discover California Wines&#8221; with images of the Golden Gate Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese aren&#8217;t interested in buying only California wine. Increasingly,<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re also looking to buy the wineries and vineyards themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The high-end Sloan Estate Winery, which offers some bottles for upward of<br \/>\n$600, sold its property to a Hong Kong conglomerate in 2011 for $40 million.<br \/>\nAlso last year, Zhang Winery of China purchased Napa&#8217;s Frazier Winery out of<br \/>\nbankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n<p>Other countries have also invested in Napa wineries. The Australian Foster&#8217;s<br \/>\nBrewing Group paid more than $1 billion for Beringer Wine Estates of California<br \/>\nin 2000, and Stag&#8217;s Leap Wine Cellars sold for $185 million in 2007 to a<br \/>\npartnership that included Italian vintner Piero Antinori. Kenzo Tsujimoto, a<br \/>\nJapanese video game magnate, invested $100 million for his high-end Kenzo Estate<br \/>\nwinery.<\/p>\n<p>Gayaldo recently met with an investor from Shanghai who was interested in<br \/>\npurchasing a Lodi winery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve received a couple of inquiries where companies are looking for a<br \/>\nworkhorse winery that can produce ultra-premium wine at medium prices, and<br \/>\nnobody can do that better than Lodi,&#8221; Gayaldo said.<\/p>\n<p>Though Friday&#8217;s exchange wasn&#8217;t specifically for scouting vineyards, Zhang<br \/>\nsaid that some Chinese investors are eyeing such investments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that the economy in China is slowing down, (business people) don&#8217;t want<br \/>\ntheir money to depreciate and some want to move their money to other<br \/>\nindustries,&#8221; said Zhang. &#8220;After tasting, they feel the U.S. has very good wine.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re really impressed and think, &#8216;Here is some proper vineyards and maybe I<br \/>\ncan invest in that.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"item-license\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/copyright\">\u00a9 Copyright The<br \/>\nSacramento Bee. 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