PHOTOS: Taiwan’s award-winning winemaker aims to revive fading tradition
Updated On Aug 07, 2020 06:22 PM IST
Taiwan is famed for a thriving food scene centred on traditional night markets that draw flocks of tourists, and it makes an award-winning whisky, Kavalan, but is scarcely known to wine enthusiasts. Asian consumers probably know the island best for Kaoliang, a sorghum-based firewater that tends to win few fans beyond the region. Until 2002, alcohol production was a government monopoly that kept out private firms, yielding wine that was “very local”, for domestic consumption.
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Hung Chi-pei, 72, the owner of the grape farm harvest grapes for winemaking at Shu Sheng Leisure Domaine in Taichung, Taiwan, July 20, 2020. (REUTERS)
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Wine barrels are seen next to a traditional shrine at Shu Sheng Leisure Domaine in Taichung, Taiwan, July 20, 2020. (REUTERS)
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Staffs prepare fresh harvest grapes into the processer to make wine at Shu Sheng Leisure Domaine in Taichung, Taiwan, July 20, 2020. (REUTERS)
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Chen Chien-hao, 52, holds a glass of his wine at Shu Sheng Leisure Domaine in Taichung, Taiwan, July 20, 2020. (REUTERS)
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Grapes for winemaking are seen at Shu Sheng Leisure Domaine in Taichung, Taiwan, July 20, 2020. (REUTERS)
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