Release of First Standard of Single Wineyard in China
2018-09-01
Technical Specifications for Planting of Wine Grapes of Diqing Plateau (DB5334/T2-2018) which was drafted by the leader Shangri-la Wine Co., Ltd. was formally released recently, which indicates China has established the first standard of vineyard, and Chinese and China’s grade industry formally got linked .to overseas high level and high quality standard, and had made a strong step in industrial development.
Technical Specifications for Planting of Wine Grapes of Diqing Plateau has specified elevation, natural conditions and social customs, ecological planting standards accordingly, especially setting specific requirements and limits on single vineyard, variety proportion, air PM2.5 and output, sugar content of gathered grave, picking way, etc.
Single vineyard refers to the grapes for brewing some wine fully come from specific vineyard. As early as Burgund in the Middle Ages, monks divides vineyards according to different natural conditions and social customs and separate the vineyards with different features with fences, so as to assure the grape wine from different vineyards could fully display the vineyards’ natural conditions and social customs. In some sense, the wine from single vineyard has better quality than the wine of the same level, and could better display the features of natural conditions and social customs in producing areas.
Richly endowed by nature, Shangri-la has various types of soils and suitable climates. With elevation difference, it has multiple small climates; each vineyard has high consistency and purity, so that Shangri-la has rare features of single vineyards in China.
One insider showed, the release of first standard of single vineyard in China laid a foundation for production of high-quality grape vine in China, and it also indicated a high-quality benchmark.