Moet Hennessy to bottle first Chinese red wine

Moet Hennessy Estates & Wines, producers of wines including Cloudy Bay and Cheval des Andes, is due to bottle its highly anticipated Chinese red wine within the next few weeks, with an international launch due for autumn 2015. The wine, which is grown in the Himalayan Mountains in the northern reaches of China’s Yunnan province close to the border with Tibet, is made with Cabernet Sauvignon grown at altitudes between 2,200 metres and 2,600 metres above sea level.