How to pick a wine for a dinner party

With so many choices out there in Beijing, sometimes it's hard to choose a wine to drink or bring to a dinner party based on just a price. Probably at one time or another we have all gone by the Beijing rule, if it's under 100 yuan it probably won't taste as good as something over 100 yuan. That is only partially true.

We invited both Gabriel Suk and Dorian Tang to gives us some tips and value vintages that will not only taste good, but are easy on the wallet too. Suk is author of the Wine Guide 2008. Tang has over 13 years of experience in the wine industry and is also a wine educator at wine distributor ASC.

Suk said the key to successfully serving wine at a holiday dinner party is to focus on "providing the right quantity, quality and consistency of options."