 Also, as globalization has brought China onto the international economic scene, so too has its winemaking industry come onto the international wine scene.China has a long tradition of the fermentation and distillation of Chinese wine, including all alcoholic beverages and not necessarily grape wine, but is one of the most recent participants in the globalization of wine that started years ago in Paris, when several countries such as Canada realized that they may be able to produce wines as good as most French wine.Quite recently, Chinese grape wine has begun appearing on shelves in California and in Western Canada.