“Who will buy my sweet red grapes?”, as the rose seller in the musical version of Oliver Twist   nearly said. This is becoming a serious concern not just for Australia’s...

Part one of this report gave an overview of the Hong Kong wine market. This part takes a closer look at what the duty cut really means in turning the city into a fine wine hub. The...

On 27 Feb this year, duty rates on all alcohol except spirits were abolished in Hong Kong in a move intended to establish the city as a fine wine hub to rival the likes of London and New York...

I have just posted well over 100 tasting notes on the 2006 bordeaux, but of course there is very much more to Bordeaux than the latest vintage to be bottled. Unusually, the current...

It will be fascinating to see what sort of prices are fetched by the super-starry lots in two major fine wine sales to be held in Hong Kong this month. The first is to be held on...

Our party of eight, which included six first timers to El Bulli , met up in the bar of the Hotel Terraza in the nearest town, Roses on the Costa Brava, for a glass of champagne before our taxis...

Altaya 2804 Bank of America Tower 12 Harcourt Road Central, Hong Kong tel +852 2523 1945 www.altayawines.com armit HK Level 30 Bank of...

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...

Jancis on her life in wine... After a virtually wine-free childhood and teenage years in a village of 46 people in...

Hakkasan serves contemporary Chinese food in a basement off a cul-de-sac in a rather nondescript location just behind Tottenham Court Road tube station. Nobu delivers modern Japanese food...

I recently asked a close observer of the Australian wine scene what the current hot topics are there and here is the response. Domestic wine sales are down by approx 10%, partly...

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...

During our first brief meeting, Trevor Shelley, who has been buying and selling restaurants for the last 20 years, told me such an intriguing story, one that goes a long way to explaining...

The Japanese wine market is evolving steadily with more education and global awareness, but Japan remains a modest wine-consuming country. Although Japan has already experienced some...

The first meal I shared with Simon Maxwell, Director of the Overseas Development Institute, was dinner in the wood-panelled Hotel Schatzalp in Davos , Switzerland, during the World Economic...