Tinnyu

田与酒造

With vintage experience at Bordeaux’s Château Olivier, Champagne, and China’s Ao Yun & Domaine Franco-Chinois, Leqi Liu & Yuxuan Qiu are producing pure, alpine, and expressive wines along the upper parts of the Mekong and Yangtze rivers - boldly emphasising work in the vineyard and opting for reduced work in the winery.

Shanghai-based,

Winemaker: Leqi Liu & Yuxuan Qiu
Established: 2021
Location: Shangri-La, Yunnan
Farming Method: Regenerative
Vineyard Size: 0.83 hectares / XX bottles per annum
Vineyard: 84% Chardonnay, 16% Cabernet Sauvignon

Leqi with Tinnyu’s motto, ‘Just a grape idea’

Leqi studied food science in the US, before travelling to France to study at Bordeaux Sciences Agro Institute of Agricultural Sciences under Kees Van Leeuwen. Her time there saw vintage work at Bordeaux’s Château Olivier.

Back in China, she worked for coveted winery Ao Yun in Yunnan, before settling in at Domaine Franco-Chinois in Hebei.

Yuxuan pursued winemaking in college, graduating from Universite de Reims Champagne Ardenne, before returning to China to complete three vintages at Domaine Franco-Chinois, where he met Leqi.

In 2021, the two…

Values

Vineyards

Xi-Da Vineyard - 0.44ha
2800m, red schist soils

A-Dong Vineyard - 0.12ha
2600m, sandy-loam soils

Meili-Li-Shei Vineyard - 0.27ha
2300m, gravel, sand, loam soils

Wines

‘Coma’ Chardonnay 2024
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‘Coma’ Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
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