Based on Grenache Noir and Sangiovese grapes, with a small addition of Muscat. After a brief period of skin contact to extract colour, the juice was fermented at low temperature to retain its fruity flavours. It is full of strawberry and rose petal aromas. Chilled, this slightly sweet wine stands up well to the challenge of matching the strong and varied tastes of a Chinese banquet.

The Treaty Port was established in 2005 by Chris Ruffle in the Shandong Province, 450 miles south-east of Beijing, China. Frustrated with the quality of domestic wine he had tasted since moving to China in 1983, the ambitious British winemaker and businessman decided to plant vines himself. Chris Ruffle’s intention? To produce the best wines in the country. Some fifteen years later, Treaty Port has been praised for the quality of its production with two of his cuvées rewarded by the China Wine and Spirits Awards. The Treaty Port Estate owns a 50-acre vineyard in Penglai. Located right by the Yellow Sea, the vineyard benefits from a maritime climate. Treaty Port is the first vineyard located in the Quishan Valley, which is an area of granitic soil protected from the North wind by the Qiushan Mountain - named after the 13th Century Taoisit priest Qiu Chuji whose temple lies in Treaty Ports vineyard.

A delicious spread of Chinese food. Maybe even some sweet and sour pork?