Exclusive | China-Australia relations: more than 23,000 litres of wine stopped at Chinese ports as trade spat continues
- Batches of wine from Penfolds and Badger’s Brook Estate are the latest to be held up at Chinese ports, reportedly over labelling issues
- Beijing has unofficially banned several Australian imports, but a top Chinese trade official on Wednesday expressed interest in restoring ties
More than 3,000 litres of wine from Penfolds and nearly 20,000 litres from a second Australian winery, Badger’s Brook Estate, were detained at Chinese ports last month as an import ban continues to hit Australian products, the latest Chinese customs data shows.
Some 675 litres of the 2018 Penfolds Bin 128 red wine and 2,700 litres of Penfolds Bin 28 from the same vintage were stopped by Shenzhen customs last month due to poor labelling.
In Chongqing, a municipality in southwest China, a variety of red and white wines across seven batches totalling nearly 20,000 litres were also held back over the same problem.
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Badger’s Brook, which is based in the state of Victoria’s famed Yarra Valley, did not respond to requests for comment.