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...

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...

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...

You may wonder why there have been so few releases of the 2007 bordeaux this week (only Evangile, a cool £850 a dozen at J&B)– or if you operate in or around the wine trade, you...

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 &...

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...

Attentive visitors to this site may remember Denis Gastin, contributor on Asian wine to The Oxford Companion to Wine , who contributed some fascinating insights on Asian wine’s progress last...

As long-serving visitors to this site know (and a search for, say, 'China' on the site reveals), I am particularly fascinated by how rapidly Asia has fallen in love with wine, both consuming and...

The two most creative ideas for selling wine that I have seen recently have both been in Asia. You know when you order wine by the glass and then forget exactly what it was you ordered? Or...

The plane touched down so far ahead of schedule that there was no time for breakfast. Instead it was straight into what would prove to be a four-day ritual of a glass of pasteurised camel's milk;...

Those of us in the west feel far from but intrigued by the state of wine in Japan. It was the first Asian market to open up to the charms of wine drinking. Tales of spectacular growth there have...

The Oriental is not just a hotel but a landmark in Bangkok, an oasis of air-conditioned peace surrounded by traffic jams. It even serves afternoon tea in quarters once inhabited by the likes of...