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Briefly the steps are as follows:
Finance the purchase of wine from a vineyard.
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Arrange all necessary paperwork to get the wine into port.
Once in port, pay all necessary taxes, ensure all labels and tax stickers are in place and that guanxi has been taken care of.
Collect the money for the wine from the distributor.
Repeat procedure.

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For hundreds of years the Chinese have enjoyed drinking baiju which is a strong liquid. Over the last few years as the Chinese have become more sophisticated in their drinking habits,they have turned to wines from all over the world including France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States and many more countries.

Chinese New Year is here, so the report is that China is ramping up it's purchases of wine, especially fine red wines from France, Spain, Italy and other parts of Europe. Wine from New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Chile are also becoming more popular.

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The Dinghong Fund (Dinghong means 'In Red') plans to invest in €110m on wine over a five-year period starting this year, according to a representative from Bordeaux negociant Vintex & les Vignobles Grégoire, which will manage the fund’s wine buying.

Wine purchasing will be spread out over a five-year period, worth about €22m invested per year.

Currently most of the wine that is being sold is towards the top end of the market as Yao Ming's California wines can attest to at $300 per bottle.

Wines purchased will be primarily red Bordeaux and some Burgundy: 60% already on the market and the remaining 40% invested in en primeur, Larché told Decanter.com.

Chinese government approval was mainly needed for en primeur purchasing because futures buying is not common in mainland China. ‘Most Chinese companies that buy futures do so in Hong Kong or elsewhere,’ he said.

The fund was founded by Ling Zhijun, a banking professional and wine enthusiast who manages Pacific Asset Management of Beijing.

‘Over one-third of wines to be purchased will supply the cellars of these investors, so the fund is not just about buying and selling grands crus, but also educating customers and introducing them to Bordeaux.’

The Dinghong Fund is not the only new venture to encourage Chinese wine buying.

Earlier this year, the Shanghai government established the country’s first official wine exchange – an internet platform to connect investors with approved suppliers.

China’s Wine Market Shows Huge upside Potential

The surging demand for wine in China has made the country one of the most important target markets for global wine producers, as regular Chinese consumers are now becoming more receptive to Western wine, and wealthy Chinese buyers are considering red wine as a new type of speculative investment to counter inflation.

Promising wine consumption market

While traditional wine consumption markets in the West are all declining amid the recent global economic woes, wine sales in China have been experiencing an impressive 15 percent annual increase over the past several years, according to estimates made by U.S.-based consulting firm A.T. Kearney (ATK). Furthermore, a report issued in September by U.K.-based International Wine and Spirit Research (IWSR) says that wine consumption reached 125 million 12-bottle cases in 2010 and is forecast to double to 250 million cases by 2016.
The fast-growing Chinese market is undoubtedly attractive to many foreign vineyards. The five most famous French vineyards – including Chateau Lafite Rothschild and Chateau Tertre Roteboeuf – have been thrilled to see significant price hikes in the wine they produce thanks to a large amount of Chinese purchases. A slew of Australian vineyards have also been happy to witness a revival in their own prices, which were largely shrunk during the Global Financial Crisis.

Over in China, the Wine Institute, an association of California wineries, is using the Golden State's effortlessly cool image to sell mid-range wine abroad. As the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports, the Wine Institute pushed a year-long ad campaign in Shanghai featuring images of the Golden Gate Bridge and a blond kid carrying a surfboard through a grassy field — all to get the attention of an emerging middle class of Chinese wine drinkers.

As Dennis Barnett, a wine distributor looking to break in to the market explains, there only two groups of wine drinkers in China: "consumers who purchase bottles for $5 or less, and wealthy buyers who are willing to pay $1,000 to $10,000 for a bottle from Bordeaux or Burgundy." And apparently those wealthy winos don't actually have an appreciation for the stuff:
"They're drinking it with 7UP, because they don't have a taste for wine," Barnett says.

So, between the cheapskates and the showoffs, there's a big hole in the market where (here in America at least) there should be a solid demographic of people who find $12 bottles of Barefoot Pinot completely drinkable. The trick is hitting on something that appeals to local palates. As one Sebastopol-bred wine consultant explains: Sonoma County's recent products, which she found to be "more restrained, elegant styles" ought to do the trick. And if not, nothing says "Grown in California" to a Chinese drinker like our Austrian former governor.