2019
Reading list阅读
Books, and where to buy them.
Janet Z. Wang’s The Chinese Wine Renaissance is the first purchase. The archaeology comes next if you want Jiahu explained at book length. ISBNs below were checked against publisher pages in October 2026.
Current edition
Atlas chapter, not a China monograph.
The World Atlas of Wine
Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson · Mitchell Beazley
The China chapter features Silver Heights. Use it for the map and the short regional text, then come back to the critic essays linked on this site for anything newer than the edition you own.
Current edition
One entry, not a book about China.
The Oxford Companion to Wine
Edited by Jancis Robinson · Oxford University Press
The China entry is the reference-book version: short, and worth reading beside Robinson’s own Ningxia essays, which are freer and more specific.
2009
Archaeology, written for a general reader.
Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
Patrick E. McGovern · University of California Press
The popular book that sits on top of the Jiahu chemistry. Paperback ISBN 978-0520267985, from the publisher’s catalogue. Ebook ISBN 978-0520944688. An older ISBN, 978-0520253797, appears in library records and was not the one printed on the publisher’s paperback page.
2003; paperback 2019
Read with the PNAS paper, not instead of it.
Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture
Patrick E. McGovern · Princeton University Press
The earlier, more vinicultural book. Princeton’s current paperback is ISBN 978-0691197203, published in 2019 with a new afterword; the ebook is 978-0691198965. A 2003 hardcover is cited in reviews as ISBN 0-691-07080-6.
2014
Industry structure, already a decade old.
Thirst for Wine: Inside China’s Wine Industry
Melanie Bobik · Anchor Academic Publishing
A market and business study, not a tasting book. Paperback ISBN 978-3954892716. Ebook ISBN 978-3954897711.
2024
Check the sample.
Wines of China
Bernardo Musumeci · Kindle edition
Listed in the Wines of the World series. Kindle ASIN B0DGV7JR5X. It has the look of a self-published ebook. Read the sample before you pay for it.
Sites worth a bookmark
- Grape Wall of China, Jim Boyce — The longest-running English blog from inside the trade.
- Decanter China — Medal tables, producer news, and some free tasting notes.
- Winepeek, Janet Z. Wang — Wang’s own blog, beside the book above.