The Chateau Nine Peaks is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Shandong to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Chateau Nine Peaks wines in Shandong among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Chateau Nine Peaks wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Chateau Nine Peaks wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Chateau Nine Peaks wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef bourguignon with tomato, traditional tagine (morocco) or coconut chicken.
On the nose the red wine of Chateau Nine Peaks. often reveals types of flavors of earthy, leather or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, oak or spices.
Shandong is one of China's major wine-producing provinces, located on the east coast of the country, equidistant between Beijing and Shanghai. It is clearly China's largest wine producing region, even if the wine industry represents only a small Part of the total economy of this heavily populated province. It is home to the majority of China's most prominent wineries, along with the Tsingtao brewery. Cabernet Gernischt, Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling and Chardonnay are the most important grape varieties grown in the province.
Shandong covers around 160,000 square kilometers (60,700 square miles) of land, an area that is roughly the same Size as the US state of Georgia. The most viticulturally important part of the province is the 275km-long (170-mile) Shandong Peninsula that juts into the Yellow Sea toward Korea. Just North of the peninsula is where the famed Yellow River flows into the sea after traversing much of northern China.
Most producers in Shandong can be found on the outskirts of urban areas, and the city of Yantai on the northern coast of the peninsula has become China's wine capital.
It was here that the first commercial wine producers began to make grape wines, pioneered by the Changyu wine company in the late 19th Century. In the past few decades, the city has been attracting international attention and the Bordeaux names of Castel and Barons de Rothschild have viticultural interests in Shandong.
The Terroir of Shandong avoids the Harsh continental extremes of the Center of China and instead has a maritime Climate, with cooler summers and warmer winters. Shandong is affected by the East Asian Monsoon, a weather system that brings cool, moist air from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the province, causing summer rain.
How Chateau Nine Peaks wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of burger roll, navarin of lamb or grilled tuna with mediterranean marinade.
A wine grape variety of the INRA-Resdur1 series with polygenic resistance (two genes for mildew and powdery mildew have been identified) resulting from an interspecific cross between Mtp 3082-1-42 (one of its parents is Vitis rotundifolia, which is resistant to Pierce's disease, mildew, grey rot, etc.) and Regent. The parents of Artaban are the same. Little multiplied, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A1.
How Chateau Nine Peaks wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of english breakfast, tuna and mayonnaise onigiri or cream and tuna quiche.
On the nose the white wine of Chateau Nine Peaks. often reveals types of flavors of oak, tree fruit.
Disease of the vine due to a fungus. Less dreadful than mildew, it only attacks the surface of the green parts. Sulphur has long been the best remedy.
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We do not know exactly where this grape variety comes from. It can be found in Austria, Romania, northern Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, etc. It is practically unknown in France. In Spain, Borba is said to be identical to the Italian Riesling.
