Chinese Fine Wine Tastes Grow Ever More Refined

Mainland Chinese collectors have started to invest in top- flight wines from Burgundy

Mainland Chinese collectors have started to invest in top- flight wines from Burgundy, said The Antique Wine Company.

"This is the first time we've seen the mainland Chinese buying serious Burgundy,'' Managing Director Stephen Williams said in a telephone interview. "In the past they've tended to concentrate on red Bordeaux.''

Williams said most of his important clients now came from Asia. ''Because of the dollar exchange rate we're finding that Americans are more sellers than buyers at the moment,'' he said.