date:May 31, 2012
unhealthy as strong distilled liquor baijiu, or as ordinary as beer, they added.
Despite this rosy picture, Soccio and Wu noted that the number of Chinese wine consumers was still relatively small, limited in geographic scope and unlikely to be exploring the imported category with any purpose.
The analysts said that both native and foreign companies were struggling with amind-bending proposition: how to identify and reach 1.34bn consumers spread across five city tiers and 31 provinces, all wi