Chinese wine tasting on deck at Snap Pop in Beijing's CBD on Saturday.

All wines by Ian Dai, who is exploring grapes and styles in Ningxia, Yunnan, Hebei and beyond, and best-known for his brand Xiao Pu aka Petit Garden.

Dai has a strong focus on minimal intervention wines. And also brought a cider he made.

First photo was taken by Christina.

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Santa Cloud! A box with three Three tea-infused Chardonnays by Lingering Clouds in Ningxia -- Jasmine, Oolong and Longjing -- outside my door this morning.

These are pet-nats--sparkling wines made via the 'ancestral' method that pre-dates Champagne and involves a single fermentation.

(I'm calling them 茶rdonnay. 茶 is the character for tea and spoken as 'cha'. Thus, we get CHArdonnay / 茶rdonnay / 茶多丽.)

I tasted tank samples of all three with winemaker Jianjun 'Johnny' Liu in September and look forward to trying the final product!

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