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
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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
How did Japanese restaurants and bars manage to keep their business afloat during and after lockdown? Smart take-away policy using smaller bottling formats and promoting rare gems are some of the strategies that saved many businesses, writes Mari Yasuda. Read More
Auction house Acker Merrall & Condit has withdrawn a lot featuring a 1924 Romanee Conti for its upcoming Hong Kong auction on June 11-13 after American lawyer Don Cornwell, who became famous for his involvement in uncovering fraudster Rudy Kurniawan questioned its authenticity. Read More
China has introduced a homegrown wine rating system that has now being adopted by the country’s leading e-commerce giant JD.com for its more than 300 million online consumers, posing as an alternative to rival established international wine rating systems used by wine critics such as Jancis Robinson or James Suckling. Read More
Moët Hennessy Diageo China has taken over distribution for the popular Bordeaux wine, Mouton Cadet, owned by Baron Philippe de Rothschild for the mainland China market, the company has announced. Read More
Residents in China's southern metropolis Shenzhen certainly had a boozy month of May. The city has given out RMB 50 million (US$7 million) worth of drinks voucher to local residents in an effort to boost alcohol sales amid pandemic. Read More
Acclaimed Australian wine critic, James Halliday, is putting his personal collection of 250 bottles of the rarefied Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) up for sale, which will make the online auction "the biggest of its kind in Australian history", according to auction house Langton's. Read More