Periphery Wine Imports

Estd. 2024

Celebrating Chinese Wine

Around the world, alternative wines from new and emerging markets are underrepresented, with new stories to tell and different outlooks to explore. Chinese wine is one of these new perspectives.

As one of the world’s largest producers, Chinese wine rarely makes it outside of the country. As one of the world’s largest consumers, the industry is overwhelmingly large and difficult to navigate- with minimal information available to the western world.

There is no shortage to the niche corners in the macrocosm of China’s wine industry - from the old world to the experimental. Dive into the world’s most exciting emerging wine country.

Li Bai (701-762), Tang Dynasty poet

月下獨酌 “Drinking Alone under the Moon”

花間一壺酒，
獨酌無相親；
舉杯邀明月，
對影成三人。
月既不解飲，
影徒隨我身；
暫伴月將影，
行樂須及春。
我歌月徘徊，
我舞影零亂；
醒時同交歡，
醉後各分散。
永結無情遊，
相期邈雲漢。

Among the blossoms waits a jug of wine.
I pour myself a drink, no loved one near.
Then raising my cup, I invite the bright moon
and turn to my shadow. We are now three.
But the moon doesn’t understand drinking,
and my shadow follows my body like a slave.
Still, for a time they will be my companions,
a passing joy that should last through the spring.
I sing and the moon just wavers in the sky;
I dance and my shadow whips around like mad.
While lucid still, we have such fun together!
But stumbling drunk, each staggers off alone.
Though bound forever, unfettered we roam
till we meet on yonder river of stars.