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Britt Karlsson, BKWine, the Swedish representative in the panel of judges at the 2005 Beijing Wine and Spirits Competition (China Drinks)
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The entrance to the Huaxia Winery Co Ltd. Huaxia makes the Great Wall wines. The "great wall" in the background is a replica of the real on that is quite far away
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The Huaxia Winery Co Ltd (Great Wall Winery) wine making building
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The Huaxia Winery Co Ltd: The entrance to the wine cellar.
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Yan Bin, Oenologue at the Hua Xia Winery Co Ltd (or Great Wall Winery, or China National Cereals, Oils & Foodstuffs Import and Export Corp)
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The vineyard at the Great Wall (Hua Xia) Winery. It is so cold in winter that the vines have to be covered with earth. The vines are trained on wires, concrete, rather than wooden, poles are used
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The Great Wall (Hua Xia) Winery building site for the new winery, which promises to be impressive in size
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Lucy Liu, David Levine (an American wine writer) and Alessandra Bottaro (an English/Italian wine journalist)
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The Great Wall Winery wine cellar with rows and rows of wooden barrels (new wood). They have something like 10000 barrels made from French oak.
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The Great Wall Winery wine cellar with rows and rows of wooden barrels (new wood). They have something like 10000 barrels made from French oak.
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The Great Wall Winery: bottles of the 1990 vintage in the wine library
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A bottle of Great Wall Cabernet Sauvignon 1995 red wine - the Great Wall on the label of course
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Several bottles of Great Wall Winery Cabernet Sauvignon, 1998 and other vintages
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The Great Wall Winery makes a point of making famous visitors sign bottles - and here, of course, a Cabernet Sauvignon red wine bottle signed by Britt Karlsson, BKWine...
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Flags of the varioius nations represented in the judging panel at the 2005 Beijing Wines and Spirits Competition (China Drinks): China, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, United States, Austria,...
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Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, just outside of the forbidden city
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The Tian'anmen Square with the entrance to the Forbidden City, military guards, a Chinese flag and a Mao painting
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Li Demei, Vice-General Manager, Responsible for Techniques at the "Sino-French Demonstration Vineyard", giving a toast in a glass of white Chinese wine
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Li Demei from the "Sino-French Demonstration Vineyard", Britt Karlsson, BKWine, Fumiko Arissaka, founder of the Japanese wine magazine Vinotheque, and Dominique Rivard of Tianjin Kernel Rivard Wines Ltd
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Emanuele Pellucci, an italian wine journalist, and David Levin, an American wine writer, both memebers of the wine tasting panel (jury) in the 2005 Beijing Wines and Spirits Competition (China Drinks)
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