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Thirsty Dragon: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best Wines

Suzanne Mustacich

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Jancis Robinson recommends it
This a journalistic book, a very sound bit of journalism by Suzanne Mustacich. She is based in Bordeaux, but she clearly travelled to China an awful lot and unravelled a most amusing commercial battle that went on in the early years of this decade between the Bordeaux chateau owners and merchants on the one side and Chinese business people on the other.

on fivebooks.com · 30 Jun 2018

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