Sentence examples for bone wine from inspiring English sources

"Tiger bone wine" fetches up to $30,000 a case.

Everything is designed to tell consumers this is tiger bone wine, without explicitly saying so.

Like ivory products, tiger skins and tiger bone wine are often presented to officials as bribes.

There's also a market, both legal and illegal, for lion bone used to make supposedly 'healing' bone wine in Asia.

Even the name on the bottle — "tonic bone wine" — uses a Chinese character that rhymes with the word for tiger.

In 2010, 645 bones and bone sets were legally exported from South Africa, two-thirds going to Asia for bone wine.

The 17-strong Chinese delegation to the forum argued that the health benefits of tiger-bone wine and other concoctions are clear, and in high demand.

Most of the illegal trade is in African ivory but the group has also found exotic birds along with rare products such as tiger-bone wine and pelts from protected species like polar bears and leopards.

Yet the freezers – thought to contain hundreds of carcasses – continue to run and the park has a website promoting tiger-bone wine from "animals that died of old age".

An unnamed zoo official, quoted by The Beijing News, claimed 40 to 50 tigers may have died since 2000 and production of tiger-bone wine for human consumption was an "open secret".

Profits have increased dramatically over the past decade, driven by the wealthy new elites in Asia, accumulating ivory carvings and tiger skins as status symbols for their homes; buying ground powder of rhino horn and tiger-bone wine as traditional remedies for almost every ailment from hangovers to cancer, none of it based on any scientific evidence.