At Wu Feng’s private vineyard on the peninsula of Penglai in Shandong province, the grapes harvested last autumn have been pressed into wine and poured into oak barrels for fermentation and ageing. In the spring he’ll start pruning and grafting new vines.

Sherry is one of the world’s great fortified wines and a favourite tipple of both Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff.

The head of a state-owned enterprise, who was the subject of a disciplinary investigation after being accused by netizens of consuming 12 bottles of red wine during a meal, said he was just trying to “learn more about wine”.

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The Tinta Barocca is rich in history and made from bush vines dating back to 1958.