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China’s leading winery Grace Vineyard has purchased a whisky distillery in the country’s coastal Fujian province for HK$15 million (US$1.9 million), making its first foray into whisky production to make ‘medium and high-end Chinese whisky’, the company has announced this week.
Hong Kong’s Burgundy specialist L’Imperatrice is planning a public listing on Hong Kong Stock Exchange, banking on consumers’ blistering demand for Burgundy and local consumers’ expanding disposable income.
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.
In this hot and tense summer of Hong Kong, three new bar openings might offer more solace and healing power to distressed Hongkongers with well crafted cocktails and delicious wines.
Olivier Halley, the scion of the illustrious Halley family and owner of two Burgundy estates, reveals the wine that he most longs for, drinking which, as he describes would be like “seeing dinosaurs alive again”.
Reeze Choi, an accomplished Hong Kong sommelier, reveals the most tedious part about being a sommelier, why he refuses to buy a wine fridge for environmental reasons. Most importantly, the quick-witted sommelier might have found a more economical and perhaps more sodden solution to build President Trump’s Wall.
An upcoming whisky tasting in Sweden featuring a full set of Japanese Hanyu Ichiro card series will set you back for US$21,000 for one single ticket, the organiser said, possibly making it the world’s most expensive tasting ever.
We talked to Emilien Boutillat, the newly appointed Chef de Cave at Champagne Piper-Heidsieck about his pet peeves about wine, his non-alcohol-soaked passion on improv theatre and the wine he would drink for the rest of his life.
Hong Kong has returned to rank as the most valuable market for wines from Bordeaux, France’s biggest wine region, while exports to mainland China suffered a double-digit drop.
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.