Don Weinland
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359 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 Aug
Don Weinland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think there's something around 50 distilleries that have been built in the past couple years, and there's more under construction right now.
They're being built by local booze enthusiasts, but also by multinationals like Diaggio, which is a British spirits maker, and by Preneau Ricard, the French spirits maker.
When these multinationals invest in distilleries,
Distilleries in China, they build them in beautiful places.
The Yuntua distillery is in a quiet village.
It cost about $120 million to build.
It's got an incredible tasting room.
It's almost 30 meters tall and it has about a thousand whiskey barrels lined on the walls.
It's really an incredible sight.
It's very strange.
So if you look at wine sales and beer sales, they're declining.
I don't know if you've ever tried Baigio.
It's this translucent spirit, which has a very high proof to it.
So it can be, you know, something like 50% alcohol.
Sales of Baigeo fell by 15% last year.
And this is by far the most popular spirit in China.
The reason behind that, from what we can tell, is
That young people are drinking less, and consumption in general is not doing great in China right now.
So, retail consumption, food and beverage consumption.
When you go to a restaurant, people in big cities like Shanghai or Beijing, they might not be ordering expensive bottles of wine when they go out.
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