{"product_id":"shofang-roussane-viognier","title":"Shofang Roussane Viognier 2025","description":"\u003ch1\u003eShofang Roussanne Viognier 2025\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRhône grapes grown on the Chinese side of the Great Wall — a rich, textural white from one of Hebei's most exciting new estates.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrape Varietals \u0026amp; Region\u003c\/strong\u003e: A blend of Viognier (67%) and Roussanne (33%), sourced from the Donghuayuan vineyard in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province — a cool-climate pocket of northern China that Shofang's winemakers have been quietly proving can do more than the country's usual Cabernet-heavy reputation suggests. Shofang was founded in 2019 by Hu Shofang (who trained in Xi'an before completing vintages in Australia's McLaren Vale) and her partner Levi Lee (Adelaide-trained), who apply an Australian-honed, minimal-intervention approach to Chinese terroir most wineries around them have overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTaste Profile\u003c\/strong\u003e: Medium-bodied and rich without tipping into heavy — apricot, dried herbs and a distinct white pepper note, textured mid-palate, finishing dry. Built for richer white-wine occasions: roast chicken, cream sauces, or something with a bit of spice to match that pepper note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaking Process\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fermented and aged in used French oak, with six months on the lees to build texture and weight without picking up new oak flavour — a deliberately hands-off approach that lets the Donghuayuan fruit carry the wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaker\u003c\/strong\u003e: Shofang Hu and Levi Lee met the way two wine-obsessed people from different sides of the world often do — through study and vintages in Australia — before deciding to bring that education home to Hebei. Shofang comes from a family whose vineyard fruit had always been sold off to industrial-scale wineries; rescuing that fruit for her own label, at a moment when neighbouring growers were ripping out vines for higher-yield crops, is very much the founding story of the estate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shofang Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43163605762146,"sku":null,"price":73.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0552\/1339\/1970\/files\/Shofang-RoussanneViognier.png?v=1785423730","url":"https:\/\/boundbywine.com\/products\/shofang-roussane-viognier","provider":"BoundbyWine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}