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How do you feel about making natural wines in regions where it's impossible to grow vines without irrigation? Seems contradictive.. curious what you think of it!

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Hi Bas, I don't think it's ideal and I hope that with more experience and older vines, Chinese growers will start exploring how to wean their vines off irrigation. if it's possible in drought-ridden South Africa I'm sure it's possible in China.

But wine growing is a much more modern thing here, and it's started in a lot of desert regions such as Ningxia. So it's going to take time.....

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Thats an interesting perspective, good farming needs time and experience, and people who take the first step. Interesting to see where it will be in 10/20 years!

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As it is to make it in Bulgaria...

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Surely there must be some dry farmed vines in Bulgaria?

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