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Wine to Asia has just announced that Italian wine expert and wine critic Ian D’Agata will kick off the three-day wine fair on August 12 in Shenzhen with a Grand Opening Masterclass, highlighting none other than Italy.
China’s biggest online drinks retailer 1919 Wine and Spirits, partly owned by e-commerce giant Alibaba, has bounced back from a pandemic-hit year to report a strong half-year performance over 2020 and Covid-free 2019.
Hong Kong’s “Fencing God” Edgar Cheung’s historic Olympics gold medal win has triggered a city-wide celebration with merchants offerings free beers and Champagne discounts to toast Cheung’s victory.
We talked to Christophe Briotet, one of the brightest young winemakers today, who made history at International Wine Challenge.
Business France will kick off what it prides as the “first ever eco-friendly” wine tasting event called “Green Summer in Hong Kong” next month, featuring wines that are made sustainably and ethically.
New details have revealed that Joseph Leung, who is in the center of HKD 25 million wine theft, might have sold the stolen bottles at auctions.
Australian wine exports to China from January to June plunged to just AU$13 million, down from AU$419 million of the same period last year, as other market gains struggle to offset loss in its most valuable export market.
A single bottle of Penfolds Grange with its founding winemaker Max Schubert’s signage has set a new world record price for any Australian wines sold at auction, fetching a whopping AU$142,131.
Authorities in Shenzhen seized over 4,000 bottles of fine wines including Lafite, Mouton and Penfolds 707 and other high-value products worth more than RMB 18 million (US$ 2.31 million), as smugglers scurried to ferry the goods from tax-free Hong Kong to the mainland.
President of French wine group Badet Clément, Laurent Delaunay, has teamed up with his winemaker cousin, Dominique Gruhier, to launch a contemporary and international Chablis wine brand – Grand Calcaire to “shake up Chablis”.