As I mentioned in a previous blog, I usually peruse the exhibitors' list and make notes about what I would try and see. Having done so over the past couple of days, it seems that the wine fair still holds a lot of interesting things for me, even if we confine ourselves just to wine. In the products listed, there are at least half a dozen if not over ten obscure grapes that I have yet to taste. Some even come from say Georgia, or Turkey, which were the focus points of 2011 and 2012 respectively. I had aggressively tried everything going then, but it seems that there is much more to be explored. This is more surprising for Georgia as I had met them in 2 wine fairs and 2 Wine and Dine Festivals. The problem with the latter is that I have not been able to access the wines which they are showing, but I suppose that is the nature of that event.
There seems to be a large delegation from Penglai on the coast of Shandong, as there were well over a dozen exhibitors, but they do not list the products they would present, but then neither are the Japanese sake brewers or Shozu distillers, although there are numerically more of them willing to send pictures and descriptions of their wares from Japan. (Not having counted the sake brewers, I have no idea if the percentage is the same, though it really seems that only one Chinese winery made any impression (because of Cabernet Gernischt) but that needs another blog).
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