With China’s waning demand for imported wines, Hong Kong, the gateway to the mainland market, is feeling the pain from a weakening mainland market. Read More
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Australia’s renowned winery Shaw + Smith has just purchased a new vineyard in the “highest and wettest” part of Adelaide Hills to make cool-climate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, the winery’s co-founder Michael Hill Smith MW has revealed. Read More
In mid-September, ThinkWine, which claims to be the first sommelier-led wine bar in Hong Kong will open its doors to the city’s wine drinkers. Read More
Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-Shing has agreed to buy UK’s largest listed pubs and brewery group, Greene King, in a deal worth £4.6 billion. Read More
Bonhams has set a new world record with the sale of full card series of Japanese cult whisky brand Hanyu Ichiro for the hefty price of HK$7,192,000 (US$ 917,000), nearly doubling the previous record of HK$3,797,500 (US$484,000) – also set by Bonhams Hong Kong in 2015. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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". Read More