By Jim Boyce Finding good Chinese wines is tough. True, hundreds of producers create thousands of wines in this country. Also true, few of those wines offer an attractive blend of quality, price and availability. To illustrate my perspective as a consumer of Chinese wines, I created the 5A formula shown above. (Apologies for my poor design skills!) I start with all of the wine sold under domestic labels (“available”). I then eliminate wines to keep those that are made with locally grown grapes (“authentic”), that taste good (“appetizing”) and that are reasonably priced (“affordable”). Finally, I consider if consumers can easily find these wines (“accessible”). It’s not a perfect system — some categories could be interchanged; a winery might produce both 5A wines and wines that score much lower; my perspective admittedly has a Beijing bias; and so on — but I think it offers one tool for sorting out which wines offer the most general appeal. (See the graphic at bottom for where individual wineries score using this formula.) Of note, the biggest complaint about China wines from my readers is difficulty in finding them. We hear news of this or that wine getting an award – and we want to try it. But then we usually find production is only a few [...]