Virtual vintners toppling wine importers in China
Increasingly price-savvy shoppers are driving a boom in online trade
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WU Zhendong sees himself as something of a wine buff. The 25-year-old lawyer from China's western city of Chengdu is a member of his local wine club, likes to drink Chateauneuf-du-Pape - and now, like many of his peers, buys most of his wine online.
Mr Wu reflects a major shift in China's US$14.2 billion wine market, where increasingly price-savvy shoppers are driving a boom in online trade, upending the fast-growing market that has long been dominated by large-scale importers.
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