Wine News: Wine comes of age in Taiwan

"In the back corner of the local supermarket chain store, behind the tissue and toilet paper and adjacent to a rattling freezer full of ice cream, are a half dozen bottles of "grape wine" barely recognizable for the layer of dust that covered them.
That was five years ago. The bottles are still there, but beside them now stand several new bottles from France, Germany, Italy, Australia and a host of other nations -- and these aren't staying on the shelf nearly as long as the dusty originals.
"A big part of the reason wines have started selling well in Taiwan in recent years is because we now have wines that are worth drinking," said Marianni Tsai, head of wine and gourmet foods for Eslite Corporation's line of luxury goods. "If you tried drinking one of those bottles of generic red wine, of course you'd stick to rice wine or beer."
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Posted by Michael Dupuis at June 16, 2005 8:17 PM