{"id":420927,"date":"2026-08-01T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420927\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:07:11","slug":"grape-expectations-california-winemakers-optimistic-for-china-export-resurgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420927\/","title":{"rendered":"Grape expectations: California winemakers optimistic for China export resurgence"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a midsummer day and the sun is high in the sky, but the cavernous bar on the green, hilly 68-acre Rios-Lovell Winery & Event Venue stands empty.<\/p>\n

Although Rios-Lovell and around 50 neighbouring wineries in the San Francisco suburb of Livermore typically do not expect many clients on weekdays, they also know that Generation Z and Millennials are not drinking as much<\/a> as their elders.<\/p>\n

However, the 35-year-old Rios-Lovell winery ships a couple of containers per year to China, said event manager Joe Feng.<\/p>\n

It may be sampling the future.<\/p>\n

After a sharp decline in US wine exports to China under US President Donald Trump, the worst should now be over with a sparkle of hope on the way, said Christopher Beros, the California Wine Institute trade association\u2019s director for Greater China and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is anecdotal evidence that this decline has bottomed out and there is hope that exports will resume in the months and years ahead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a midsummer day and the sun is high in the sky, but the cavernous bar on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,149852,3573,168137,168133,536,168138,17030,168139,168134,168136,168135,10978,23371,11270],"class_list":["post-420927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-wine-institute","tag-china","tag-china-us-trade-issues","tag-concannon-estate-and-winery","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-feng","tag-livermore","tag-livermore-valley-chamber-of-commerce","tag-rios-lovell-winery-event-venue","tag-sams-club","tag-us-wine-exports","tag-washington-dc","tag-xi-jinping","tag-zinfandel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}