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China has announced today that it will slap up to 212% temporary anti-dumping tariff on Australian wine exports starting from this Saturday, with Treasury Wine Estates hit with the sharpest so far, escalating the two countries’ fraught trade and political relations.
With China’s de facto wine ban on Australian wine dimming its future, Chile, currently China’s third biggest wine supplier after Australia and France, might emerge as the only winner out of the ongoing China-Australia trade rows.
Auction house Bonhams has pulled out the entire A-1 Fine Wines Sale of 607 lots, which was touted as “one of Asia’s most encyclopedic wine collections,” from last Saturday’s auction, due to overwhelming allegations of fake wines.
A combination of economic slowdown and political crisis, coupled with the coronavirus pandemic has brought Bourgogne wine export to China and Hong Kong to its knees in the first nine months of the year, according to the latest data released by Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB).
Champagne house Louis Roederer has announced that 115 hectares of their vineyards have just passed the third year of certification audit to organic farming.
Simone Incontro, General Manager of Veronafiere Asia, soberly warns of a struggling Chinese wine market while outlining a strong pipeline of opportunities in natural and Chinese wines, as the Veronafiere executive gears up for a new B2B wine exhibition to facilitate drinks trade in China on the back of the country’s accelerating recovery.
Fine wine merchant Ginsberg + Chan has been appointed as the exclusive distributor of Mod Sélection Champagne in Hong Kong, a range of luxury Champagne created by Canadian rapper Drake.
A flurry of wine releases have landed in Hong Kong in the past month including latest vintages from Champagne Henriot to a flamboyant wine range launched by two Sicilian natives – fashion house Dolce & Gabbana and Donnafugata winery.
South Africa’s wine bible, Platter’s, has just unveiled its annual list of 5-star wines, and family-owned Journey’s End estate was among dozens of wineries whose wines were given the top rating of 5 stars.
The 160th Hospices de Beaune has been abruptly postponed this Sunday due to France’s worsening second wave of Covid-19.