The Tasting Panel

Posted by on May 8, 2013 in News | Comments Off Celebrity-owned brands continue to cause a stir with consumers eager for a taste of the cache associated with their favorite music, film, or sports star-turned-vintner. While retired basketball player Yao Ming’s family name is on the label, the man behind his Napa Valley brand Yao Family Wines is Director of Winemaking Tom Hinde. Yao Family release 350 cases of ’09 Cabernet Sauvignon-dominate...
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Red Wines, and a Wine and Food Extravaganza

Posted by on May 2, 2013 in News | Comments Off “YAO MING Cabernet Sauvignon  Napa Valley 2009 – Following its launch in mainland China, the 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley and Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve Napa Valley – the latter at $625 a bottle, and extremely limited – were served to a coterie of professional wine sippers at Reef Restaurant recently. The wine is made with great care, using rigorous hand sorting, natural...
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Jerry Brown Meets Yao Ming, Cruises Huangpu River

Posted by on Apr 15, 2013 in News | Comments Off By: David Sliders, Sacramento Bee In a week in which Gov. Jerry Brown has demonstrated a significant degree of diplomatic acuity, it will likely not go down as an international incident. On the other hand, the retired Chinese basketball player Yao Ming is a national icon, so it might have helped to know how injury prone Ming was before asking if he’d ever been hurt. “Did you ever get...
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Yao Ming Launches Eponymous Wine Label

Posted by on Mar 26, 2013 in News | Comments Off By Barnaby Hughes, Gayot Former pro basketball player Yao Ming has not been idle since retiring from the Houston Rockets in July 2011. In addition to enrolling at the Shanghai Jaio Tong University and working on behalf of elephant conservation, the thirty-year old has begun producing a pair of premium Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons. Yao Ming and Tom Hinde, President and Director of Winemaking of...
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Prime Living Magazine

Posted by on Mar 21, 2013 in News | Comments Off Former Houston Rockets superstar Yao Ming recently entered the Texas market with his Yao Ming Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon wines. With the help of esteemed winemaker Thomas Hinde …. See the full...
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Interview with CPPCC member Yao Ming

Posted by on Mar 5, 2013 in News | Comments Off By: Agencies, CNTV.com For more celebrity CPPCC members, CCTV News correspondent Fei Ye sat down with former basketball player Yao Ming, a first time CPPCC member discussing Chinese politics and public diplomacy. FEI YE: Yao Ming thank you for your time. You were a professional basketball player, a businessman, and a philanthropist and now a CPPCC member. What does this title mean to you? And...
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