Grace Vineyard 怡园酒庄Yíyuán Jiǔzhuāng
The Shanxi estate publishes a booked tour of the cellar, a small museum and the vineyard. A 2006 Chairman’s Reserve is the Chinese wine James Suckling remembers scoring 86 at Wine Spectator.
| Region | Shanxi 山西Shānxī |
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| Place | Dongjia, Rencun, Taigu, Jinzhong, Shanxi |
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| Visitors | Tours by reservation |
| Website | grace-vineyard.com |
Grace’s English site publishes a Shanxi tour: the workshop, the underground cellar, a Chinese Boutique Winery Museum, the vineyard, and a meal with the estate’s wines. The Chinese site asks visitors to reserve, gives the address as Dongjia, Rencun, Taigu, and lists weekday hours of 8:30–12:00 and 13:00–17:30, with a note that weekend cover is more reliable from May to October. The published telephone is +86 190 3517 7650 and the email is contact@grace-vineyard.com. Its own 2025 note marks 28 years.
A sample itinerary on the site starts at Taiyuan Wusu airport. That is the practical route: fly to Taiyuan, then continue by road. The page also mentions the Chang family mansion as a stop on the way.
James Suckling has written that, in a period when few Chinese wines stayed in the memory, Grace Vineyard Chairman’s Reserve 2006 was the one, scored 86 when he was a Wine Spectator editor. Jancis Robinson’s 2012 Ningxia essay mentions Gérard Colin’s work at Grace before the Lafite project in Shandong. In her piece on Chinese wine media, Janet Wang is quoted praising the online voice of Grace, Changyu and Silver Heights.
Background notes also attach Grace to Ningxia. The pages that publish a visit describe Taigu. A Ningxia vineyard was not confirmed here.