The Hong Kong fine wine market is in the rudest of health, it would seem, thanks largely to the abolition of wine duty there in Feb 2008 and the determined efforts of established auctioneers,...

Initially, it appeared like a very one-sided contest. On one side of the swing door was Yan Tak, the highly talented chef of Lung King Heen (View of the Dragon) in charge of a brigade of 28...

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...

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...

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...

At Pearl Liang , in the lower concourse of Paddington Central, west London, the Chinese waiter could not have been friendlier as he took our order for salt and pepper bean curd, Shanghai...

Here's a very brief extract from Robert Parker's tasting of 20 bordeaux 2009s on Tuesday morning at WineFuture Hong Kong. It was hyped as The Magical 20 , and already merchants are trying...

Below is the hall where the WineFuture HK tastings were held, just before my Beyond Bordeaux tasting began. The picture above left is of Robert Parker presenting from the stage from which this...

I got back from Hong Kong early yesterday morning and, thanks to a good night's sleep and an afternoon siesta, was able to attend both annual events organised by the Institute of Masters of Wine:...

I had the honour of participating with film director Francis Ford Coppola ( The Godfather , Apocalypse Now et al.) yesterday in the opening press conference at WineFuture Hong Kong , where we...

Last Friday the line-up of wines I will present at one of the three big tastings to be held at WineFuture Hong Kong in early November was announced. The other two tastings will be a collection...

International auction houses must have all been very well behaved this year, because Santa has delivered them end-of-year results to raise serious festive cheer. After 12 months of ever-more...

I suppose if you're running one record-breaking auction, you may as well try for two. Sotheby's followed up the extraordinary success of Friday's ex-cellars Lafite auction , which achieved a...

After Winchester, Oxford and a stint with Lehmann Brothers in Tokyo, Fergus Fung now has two seemingly disparate roles in Hong Kong. He is the founder of the annual WOM (Word of Mouth), the...

During the course of what was to prove an increasingly fascinating dinner at A Lorcha , the Macanese restaurant in Macau, formerly a Portuguese colony now a Chinese Special Administrative Area...