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...I confused Ao Yun with Long Dai, but they are hardly my everyday drinking wines....
...The one exception of Chinese wine that has become a collector’s item with resale value is from Ao Yun, a Yunnan winery owned by French luxury group LVMH and established by the renowned Australian winemaker...
...Maxence Dulou is the man in charge of making Ao Yun. I met him and his family in Yunnan in 2014 before the wine had even been launched....
...Ao Yun, from Yunnan in the south of China, was launched in 2017 at an ambitious 2,800Rmb.) The name first....
...Some good examples are available in Hong Kong, as well as in mainland China, but few are exported further — except for Changyu Moser XV and Ao Yun, which is offered by the Bordeaux merchants....
...So far, critics have applauded the Ao Yun 2013, the first vintage — a fact that helps explain the retail price....
...LVMH, for example, is targeting its really rather delicious new Yunnan red Ao Yun (at €200 a bottle), at markets other than China....
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