11 Boutique Xinjiang Wineries to Debut in Singapore

The launch programme includes a one-day trade exhibition, Master of Wine masterclass and Michelin-starred pairing dinner, highlighting Xinjiang terroir.

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 14 November 2026 - Eleven boutique wineries from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will make their collective Singapore debut on Nov. 19 & 20. This campaign, titled "Xinjiang Wine: A World of Chinese Terroir", will introduce Southeast Asian sommeliers, importers and fine wine collectors to 68 labels spanning four distinct Xinjiang viticultural subregions.

11 Boutique Xinjiang Wineries to Debut in Singapore

Organized by the Forestry and Grassland Administration of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region alongside campaign lead Up-Chinese Wine (UCW) and strategic partners Vinexpo Asia and Jin Ting Wan Chinese Restaurant, the tripartite initiative aims to establish an international trade platform bridging production with distribution, expand on-trade dining channels and elevate the regional identity of Xinjiang wine across Southeast Asia.

The showcase features 68 core labels—including 60 domestic and international award winners—presented across three invitation-only trade and gastronomic sessions:

• Nov. 19 — Gala Pairing Dinner: Hosted at Singapore's Michelin-starred Jin Ting Wan Chinese Restaurant overlooking Marina Bay, the opening dinner pairs one flagship vintage from each of the 11 participating wineries with bespoke Cantonese fine dining. Jin Ting Wan head sommelier Joe Yang, recipient of the 2026 Michelin Guide Singapore Sommelier Award, will spearhead an ongoing initiative to integrate Xinjiang vintages into the restaurant's wine program.
• Nov. 20 — Regional Masterclass: Master of Wine Xing Wei, who curated the lineup for both the gala dinner and educational programming, will lead an analytical masterclass examining the viticultural evolution, macroclimates, soil compositions and varietal profiles of Xinjiang's four primary wine-producing subregions.
• Nov. 20 — Trade Exhibition and Walk-Around Tasting: Open by invitation to certified sommeliers, wine importers, distributors, high-end restaurateurs, trade media and collectors, the exhibition enables side-by-side comparative tastings across all 68 labels and 60 award winning wines.

Government Backing and Market Expansion The Singapore debut follows seven policy measures issued by the General Office of the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to modernize the regional wine sector. The directives focus on upgrading vineyard grape bases, expanding corporate vinification and processing infrastructure, strengthening regional brand equity, advancing wine tourism and industry integration, reinforcing viticultural research and expanding financial guarantees for overseas market entry.

Concurrently, an official delegation from the Forestry and Grassland Administration of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will conduct market research in Singapore—evaluating local consumption patterns, import regulations and distribution networks—while meeting with major importers, restaurant groups and trade associations to build long-term commercial partnerships.

Four Distinct Terroirs of the Tianshan Mountains Fed by glacial snowmelt from the Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang's vineyards span vast geographic distances north and south of the range, producing contrasting mesoclimates and varietal expressions:

• Turpan-Hami (Tu-Ha) Basin: Characterized by an arid, high-heat continental climate suited to ripe, concentrated styles.
• Yanqi Basin: Naturally moderated by surrounding mountains and nearby lake systems that temper seasonal extremes.
• Northern Slopes of the Tianshan Mountains: Home to Xinjiang's largest wine-producing cluster and a center for modern, large-scale experimental viticulture.
• Ili Valley: Uniquely tempered by warm, humid Atlantic airflows that create a markedly distinct growing environment.

Participating Wineries The 11 exhibiting producers representing all four subregions are:

Turpan-Hami Basin

• Puchang Vineyard

Yanqi Basin

• Château Aroma
• Tiansai Vineyards
• Bainian Manor
• Château Zhong Fei

Northern Foothills of Tianshan Mountains

• Château Xianghai
• Château Lixuan
• Yaochixiye Winery
• Tangting Xialu Winery

Ili River Valley

• Silk Road Vineyards
• Château Crescent

Notes to Editors: Two Millennia of Silk Road Viticulture
Modern Xinjiang producers combine contemporary vineyard management, clonal selection, terroir mapping and international winemaking technology with a viticultural history spanning more than 2,000 years. Historically known as the Western Regions (Xiyu), Xinjiang served as a primary conduit for the east-west exchange of Vitis vinifera and winemaking craft along the overland Silk Road.

Between the third and second centuries B.C., winemaking techniques crossed the Pamir Plateau into oasis kingdoms north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, including Niya, Kucha (Qiuci), Karasahr (Yanqi) and Gaochang. Archaeological discoveries—such as a 2,300-year-old grapevine unearthed at the Yanghai Tombs in Shanshan County, Turpan, and painted pottery bearing grape motifs in Hejing County—date local viticulture prior to imperial envoy Zhang Qian's 138 B.C. diplomatic expedition, which introduced Vitis vinifera varieties from Dayuan to the Han court. Subsequent artifacts, including Loulan and Astana tomb murals depicting vineyard cultivation and wine pressing, Gaochang tax ledgers recording vineyard acreage and wine levies, and Tang dynasty records of Gaochang tribute wines sent to Chang'an, document an unbroken regional winemaking lineage.

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Built by AI Rudder, CALL-E asks the user before every call and reports back with proof of what was agreed.

SAN FRANCISCO, US – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 November 2026 – AI Rudder, the Singapore-headquartered company behind more than 80 billion AI calls, has launched CALL-E, which lets AI agents make real phone calls on their users' behalf. CALL-E works inside ChatGPT, in personal AI agents such as Muse, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, and in AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

Personal AI agents are growing fast. Meta's Muse passed five million US downloads in its first three weeks, and Grok Bot, from Elon Musk's SpaceX, reached 400,000 weekly users in its first month. Both are piloting phone calls, and users now try to hand their AI agent the calls they used to make themselves: moving a dinner booking, chasing the dry cleaner.

CALL-E is built for those calls. A personal AI agent hands it the errand, and CALL-E makes the call and reports back with proof.

"The smartest AI model in the world can still fail a phone call. All it takes is one 'mm-hmm'," said Teng Ren, CEO of AI Rudder.

"Say your AI agent calls a restaurant to move your booking to a specific time. The restaurant host says 'mm-hmm' to agree, and your agent stops mid-sentence, as if she'd asked a question. Then she says, 'Tuesday at... let me check,' and your agent cuts in with 'Great, Tuesday it is,' to a time she did not give. These behaviours are unnatural to a human, so she knows she's talking to AI and hangs up.

"An AI agent earns the right to speak for us when it reads every 'yes', every pause and every interruption the way a person on the phone would, and answers the way that person would."

A call can't be unsent. CALL-E builds an approval step into the product: each call goes ahead only after the user approves that exact plan, so a call nobody approved never rings.

Phone calls are messier than chat. People pause halfway through an order number, talk over the agent, or cut in mid-sentence. AI Rudder's engineers handle this in the code around the AI model, which decides what the model hears and what it remembers saying.

On the TurnBench Interruption leaderboard, Helm Swift, the AI Rudder model that tells CALL-E when a caller is cutting in, has the joint-lowest false-positive rate of any qualifying model, so it rarely stops talking just because a caller says "yeah" (TurnBench, October 2026).

An agent can report "Booked for 7pm" and still have misheard the time. So after each call, CALL-E reports what was agreed, how confident it is that it met the goal, and the exact lines from the call that back it up, so the user can check it.

By default, a CALL-E call introduces itself as CALL-E, a voice agent. The user can change what it says, and a pre-check stops a call from posing as the FBI or 911.

Regulators are moving the same way. In its 2024 Declaratory Ruling (FCC 24-17), the FCC clarified that AI-generated voices fall within the definition of artificial or prerecorded voices under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, making such calls subject to applicable regulatory requirements, including consent and caller identification obligations. Separately, Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires that people be told they are talking to an AI.

An agent that calls for you carries your phone number and the details of your errand, so the line it uses has to keep both safe. CALL-E runs on the same technology as AI Rudder's enterprise solutions, which are built to meet SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001, alongside GDPR and PDPA requirements. Every call keeps a record from plan to result, with the approval and the evidence attached, so a disputed call can be traced.

CALL-E is available at https://www.heycall-e.com/, where new users start with 100 free credits.

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About CALL-E

CALL-E lets an AI agent make real phone calls for the person it works for: it plans the call, waits for the user's approval, makes the call and reports back with proof of what was said. CALL-E is built by Singapore-headquartered AI Rudder, which is backed by investors including Tiger Global and Peak XV Partners.

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Illustration: a personal AI agent makes calls for its user with CALL-E. (Image: AI Rudder)