China’s eastern Jiangsu province has dismantled what the policed described as a “mega cross regional” fake wine production ring, seizing over 8,000 bottles of counterfeit Penfolds worth over RMB 10 million (US$1.6 million). Read More
Natalie Wang
The onslaught of Hong Kong’s worst outbreak has soured Hong Kong’s once buoyant wine market, leaving merchants in limbo without detailed government timeline amid rising restaurant closures and retail slump. Read More
China’s thirst for Bordeaux is back, and the country gulped at least one in every five exported Bordeaux wines last year. Read More
The world's biggest luxury group LVMH has suspended its business in Russia following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, citing operational challenges and concerns about staff safety. Read More
One of China’s leading wine importers, EWM Fine Wines, has become the exclusive on-trade distributor of Shandong-based winery, Mystic Island, as it bags another key Chinese wine producer to sate the country’s growing thirst for domestically produced wine. Read More
China's biggest wine and spirits fair has yet again been postponed due to sporadic Covid cases found in the southwestern city of Chengdu, highlighting the challenges of organizing physical fairs even though local cases are in single digits. Read More
Ukraine civilians and breweries are heeding to president Zelensky’s call to make Molotov cocktails this weekend to defend the country, as Ukraine braces for Russia’s intensified invasion. Read More
Kerry Wines, one of the leading wine companies in Greater China, has become the latest target of China’s quickened efforts to regulate online contents and ads that promote wine’s health properties. Read More
Hong Kong's wine market rebounded with vengeance in 2021 but with the city imposing the toughest Covid curbs yet, will 2022 reverse all gains? Read More