Coravin has added a new addition to its wine preservation system with SmartClamps™ that promises an “easier and smarter” way to use the device for beginners and first-time users. Read More
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For this week, here are the headlines making buzz in China's wine market: fake Bordeaux wines in Shanghai, Beijing's fresh outbreak and key personnel changes in China's wine trade. Read More
Provence’s renowned rosé producer Domaines Ott* has unveiled a communication campaign that pays homage to its heritage, tradition and terroir, highlighting its “bond between their wines, time and their lands”. Read More
Julien Froger, founder and director of Hong Kong’s fine wine merchant L’Imperatrice, has abruptly left the company, Vino Joy News has learned. Read More
Here are top five South African wines served at a recent Bettane + Desseauve wine tasting in Hong Kong that will help quench your summer thirst. Read More
Hong Kong's publicly listed wine company, Major Cellar, has issued a profit warning this month, alerting shareholders that the city's months of social unrest and Covid-19 could shave off up to HK$35 million (US$4.5 million) of its profits for the year ended on March 31 2020. Read More
Despite American president’s threat to remove Hong Kong’s special trade privileges, the city’s American wine importers and promoters remain undeterred by the news, counting on the city’s 2008 wine tax policy to insulate itself from the ongoing US-China tensions. Read More
The annual Italian Wine Celebration which is normally scheduled for November in Hong Kong has been postponed to next year, the organizer has announced. Read More
Here are your essential readings on China's wine market this week: Chinese president Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Chinese wine region Ningxia last week, while Beijing is pushing to build Hainan as a free trade port like Hong Kong. Read More
A campaign that urges Chinese to drink Chinese wine is under way. With imported wines plunging and growing nationalist sentiment, is China turning its back on imported wines? Read More