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Matching wine with Asian food, part 3 – aromatic flavours
Part three of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. Click for part one and part two. After explaining the background and...
Richard Hemming MW
Thursday 13 November 2025
• 1 min read
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On 27 Feb this year, duty rates on all alcohol except spirits were abolished in Hong Kong in a move...
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This article was originally published in Business Life . Hakkasan serves contemporary Chinese food in a basement off a cul-de-sac...
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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...
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You may wonder why there have been so few releases of the 2007 bordeaux this week (only Evangile, a cool...
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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...
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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...
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Attentive visitors to this site may remember Denis Gastin, contributor on Asian wine to The Oxford Companion to Wine, who...
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As long-serving visitors to this site know (and a search for, say, 'China' on the site reveals), I am particularly...
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The two most creative ideas for selling wine that I have seen recently have both been in Asia. You know...
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The plane touched down so far ahead of schedule that there was no time for breakfast. Instead it was straight...
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Those of us in the west feel far from but intrigued by the state of wine in Japan. It was...
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