During a recent visit to Taipei, our cheese specialist Ivy Ng spoke to Isabella Chen, Taiwan's burrata pioneer, who switched from journalism to cheesemaking 4 years ago. Already counting Michelin-starred chefs amongst her clients, she talks about her eagerness to keep learning and her aspiration to support local dairy farming industry! Read More
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China’s leading winery Silver Heights is in the process of converting its vineyards and winemaking to biodynamic viticulture, Vino-joy.com has exclusively learned. 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
Strong demand for premium wines and mass-produced wines has driven up sales and profits for Australian wine giant Treasury Wine Estates. 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
Southern Rhône varietals including Grenache, Syrah and Carignan are apparently adapting better to changing climate, while increasing temperature compounded woes for Bordeaux variety such as Cabernet and Merlot in Languedoc-Roussilon, according to the region’s leading producer Les Jamelles. Read More
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. Read More
Michael Hill Smith MW shares with us disdain about wine pretension, his wine recommendation to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and the legendary 1978 DRC La Tache. 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