{"title":"Kanaan Winery | Ningxia","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" alt=\"Kanaan Winery Vineyards in Ningxia, China\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0106\/1539\/0266\/files\/Kanaan_Vineyard_Banner.jpg?v=1737898126\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsidered to be one of China’s top wineries, Kanaan is located in the foothills of the Helan Mountains in Ningxia, about 1,000 kilometres west of Beijing. Kanaan means \"the land of milk and honey\", signifying the hope for Ningxia to be one of China’s leading fine wine regions. The horses on the label reference the Helan Mountains, as ‘helan’ translates to horses in ancient Chinese. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe winery was founded in 2011 by Fang Wang, whose father Wang Feng Yu was a pioneering viticulturist in Ningxia. Fang is nicknamed ‘Crazy Fang’ due to her ‘crazy’ idea of establishing a winery with no prior experience and embarking on the near-impossible mission of growing Riesling in Ningxia. Fang spent 12 years abroad, including a significant period in Germany where she acquired her love of Riesling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNingxia has harsh winters that require individual vines to be buried manually in November, before being dug up the following April. Temperatures can fall to -20°C and the annual rainfall is 200mm. Due to the sandy soils, phylloxera can’t survive in the vineyards, allowing the vines to be planted on their own roots. The Kanaan Winery comprises 16.8 hectares of vineyard, planted with 10 hectares of Cabernet Sauvignon, 1.3 hectares of Riesling, 1.2 hectares of Merlot and the rest of Chardonnay. The vines are trained in the upturned ‘L’ training system, where the cordon is kept close to the ground to facilitate vine burial. All vineyard work is done by hand as this training system is unsuitable for mechanisation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kanaan-winery-pretty-pony-cabernet-merlot","title":"Kanaan Winery 'Pretty Pony' Cabernet Merlot 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ‘Pretty Pony’ Cabernet Merlot is the flagship wine of Kanaan and is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (90%) and Merlot (10%). The vineyards are located in the picturesque eastern foothills of Helan Mountain in Ningxia, which has an arid climate, seeing very little rain throughout the growing season. The climatic conditions have the capacity to produce very high-quality wine grapes in fact, this vineyard sits in what is referred to as the 'golden zone' for grape cultivation. This wine is full of ripe, rich fruit flavours tangled with a blend of sweet spices . On the nose you can expect delicious notes of clove, vanilla, and chocolate truffle. As the wine opens up, the flavours will expand and develop as you begin to experience elegant notes of fragrant leaves, graphite and soil. Exquisite warm and woody notes run throughout the entire tasting experience. [#intro]Kanaan's flagship red is an elegant take on the classic Bordeaux Cabernet Merlot blend...[\/intro]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kanaan Winery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55214308458877,"sku":"A19KANAANPRETTYPONYRED-1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0106\/1539\/0266\/files\/PrettyPonyRedBt.jpg?v=1737902263"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0106\/1539\/0266\/collections\/Kanaan_Winery_Logo.jpg?v=1737898292","url":"https:\/\/hic.wine\/collections\/kanaan-winery-ningxia.oembed","provider":"Hic!","version":"1.0","type":"link"}