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The results from Acker Merrall & Condit’s recent auction previewed here , contrast somewhat with their first attempt to capitalise on Hong Kong’s burgeoning fine wine market.... |
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Today is the day that a score or two of very hardworking wine students around the globe have been chewing their nails and checking their mail anxiously for it's the day that the Institute of... |
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After an absence of seven years, Christie’s wine department will be back in Asia for an auction on 29 Nov2008 at the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre. The headline wines in... |
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Continuing her travels round the world of wine as part of her OIV MSc course, Victoria Daskal reaches China, as you can see below. After several weeks hopping around China with my wine... |
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Although some of the Bordelais returnees from it have managed to find the strength to release their 2007s, Hong Kong’s Vinexpo seems to have left everyone pretty drained – not... |
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Bonhams’ Hong Kong inaugural wine auction noted on this site here and held yesterday at Crown Wine Cellars seems to have been a predictable success in view of the recent abolition... |
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Two years ago we held a wine dinner for Room to Read here in Hong Kong and it raised over US$500,000. I'm just back from the second such dinner at which David Elswood and Anthony Hanson MW of... |
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Just arrived in my in box. Note the sting in the tail. "As America's oldest wine store and its largest auction house for four out of the last five years, Acker Merrall &... |
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Really, you shouldn’t have… No sooner had I stepped off the plane here in Hong Kong than I got several messages telling me that the Hong Kong government had just... |
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Purple pager Debra Meiburg offered this news of a new service, now well established as Crown Wine Cellars. (See also comments written after the abolition of wine duty in HK in Feb... |
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Jeannie Lo, Hong Kong: My partner and I live in Hong Kong and are to be married later this year. Our wedding reception will be a Chinese banquet of some 70-80 people of... |
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It was an impressive gathering around the round table. There was a senior investment banker; a partner in a private equity fund; two restaurateurs; a statuesque; Chinese ex-ballerina; and an... |
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Simon Tam, Hong Kong: Just how long does it take for TCA to leach from cork to wine? In a recent show for picnic desperation where none of us 'professionals' had a corkscrew, one of my more... |
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A representative of Ornellaia rang me yesterday to remind me that this year the Maremma winery celebrates its 20th anniversary which they plan to celebrate with a vertical tasting in April. Such... |
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Sorry to usurp Nick’s position as restaurant correspondent but, alas, he was not with me on my recent travels. As in so many Asian cities, most of the fine dining in Hong Kong is concentrated in... |
