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Chinese wines to ring in the New Year – or anytime, really, now that this portfolio is available in the UK. The convivial, wine-loving Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai once...
Oliver Coleman
Monday 16 February 2026
• 2 min read
Wine news in 5
Floods hit Spain, Portugal, Italy, Monarch Tractor shuttered, early budbreak in California
Plus, a trade deal for China and South Africa, falling French wine and spirits exports, a legal case in Australia. And congratulations to Andrew Jefford, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 14 February 2026
• 1 min read
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Don't quote me
Oh dear, oh dear. The newspapers are full of the terrible problem of tainted powdered milk in China which has...
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Michael Oates is reading Chinese at St Anne's, my old Oxford college, although that's not how I know him. It...
Don't quote me
Continuing her travels round the world of wine as part of her OIV MSc course, Victoria Daskal reaches China, as...
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I was surprised by quite how much interest was generated by my tasting notes on the best Chinese wines to...
Nick on restaurants
This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Restaurateurs in Hong Kong and Shanghai...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. For over three decades since Christie’s...
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After several weeks in detention as a result of a China Customs investigation into under-payment of China’s as valorem wine...
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Written by Simon Tam. The Associated Press and International Herald Tribune are now confirming my story first reported here back...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. A pot of jasmine tea overlooking the Yangtze river; a beer...
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Lost in the clamour of denials from leading Chinese wine importer ASC Fine Wines as to the reported value of...
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Here is the text of an email I received this morning which its sender, the founder of China's biggest wine...
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Simon Tam, purple pager and Hong Kong-based wine educator, reports on investigations at ASC Fine Wines. Just as a fever...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. As we walked down the stairs from the branch of the...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See also Chinese wine – the...
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See also, Will China ever be a serious wine producer? While in China nearly two weeks ago I seized every...
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I’m now back in London from a whirlwind tour of duty-free Hong Kong, vibrant and cosmopolitan Shanghai, the wilds of...
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