TWE 2019 profits buoyed by Asia
Strong demand for premium wines and mass-produced wines has driven up sales and profits for Australian wine giant Treasury Wine Estates.
Category: Asia
Wine Intelligence downgrades China’s attractiveness as a wine market
China has lost out on its attractiveness as a wine market, according to the latest report by Wine Intelligence, amid the country’s slowing economic growth, escalating China-US trade war and depreciated Chinese currency.
Wine, the liquid gold of asset management
Wine has emerged as the liquid gold in asset management, and the fastest growing platform in Asia riding on the trend is WWXplorer or WWX.
Talking Cheese in Asia: Who is Yanzi Wang?
In this week’s Talking Cheese in Asia series, our cheese specialist talks to an inspiring couple who are making artisan cheese in the nomadic Mongolia.
Promised Land, Promising Cheese
Hong Kong’s cheese lovers were bowled over by the outstanding quality of US artisanal cheese at a recent tasting hosted by Cheese & Wine HK, in collaboration with the California Wine Institute. Our cheese specialist Ivy reports on this event featured in California Wine Month.
Bonhams eyes new world record with Hanyu Ichiro full card series whisky
The crown jewel of Japanese rare whisky collection, the whole set of Hanyu Ichiro’s Full Card Series, will go under hammer at auction house Bonhams’ upcoming Whisky and Wine auction on August 16 in Hong Kong, and is likely to smash previous world record.
Winners of WOSA Sommelier Cup Asia announced
Three top sommeliers saw competition off from over 130 sommeliers from 11 Asian countries to win this year’s Wines of South Africa’s (WOSA) Sommelier Cup Asia semi-final, WOSA has announced.
Talking Cheese in Asia: Who is Myriam Bilbault?
In the latest Talking Cheese in Asia series, cheese specialist Ivy Ng talks with a young and no-nonsense French cheesemonger about her ambition for Hong Kong and her determination to persuade the locals’ taste buds to appreciate the diversity of French artisan cheese.
Aldi debuts in Shanghai as Carrefour exits China
German supermarket chain Aldi has opened its first two stores in Shanghai, China this month at a time when Europe’s largest retailer Carrefour is posed to exit China.
Sake and cheese: a symphony of umami
Our cheese specialist Ivy Ng argues Cheese, a protein-rich food, with umami-charged compounds, its creamy, rich texture, is in fact the perfect match with Japanese sake, as shown in the pairing with Junmai sake by Katsuyama Shuzo.