China s drinkers develop taste for home-grown wines
By Tim McDonald
Emma Gao says that when people taste our wine they re happy .
Ms Gao runs the Silver Heights winery and vineyards in China s Ningxia province, about 1,000 km (620 miles) west of Beijing.
They sit in the foothills of the Helan Mountains, where it s dry and sunny with mild temperatures in summer and plenty of irrigation from the Yellow River.
Still, the winters are so bitterly cold that the vines need to be buried under 30cm (12in) of soil late in the year so that they make it through to the next season.