Global wine supply chain buckles under Covid-19, causing severe shipping delays
As holiday season approaches, leading wine merchants and wineries tell Vino Joy News what has transpired the shipping delays this year and the impacts of the delays.
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Chinese wine market feels the pinch of Australian exit
The economic pains of the China-Australia conflict are also being felt in China, as the Chinese wine market struggles to absorb the aftershock of the boozy breakup.
Pandemic halts Bourgogne growth in China & Hong Kong
A combination of economic slowdown and political crisis, coupled with the coronavirus pandemic has brought Bourgogne wine export to China and Hong Kong to its knees in the first nine months of the year, according to the latest data released by Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB).
Wine imports are drying up in China
Despite successfully containing the coronavirus spread within mainland China, China’s wine consumption has yet to bounce back to pre-covid level.
Singapore relaxes event organisation rules
Singapore will relax rules on event organization, allowing up to 250 people. More from Ch’ng Poh Tiong.
Singapore expected to ease pandemic restrictions
Singapore is expected to announce some easing of pandemic restrictions on September 1.
2020 Tsingtao Beer Festival in photos
It seems that coronavirus is a bygone memory in China, as the 30th Tsingtao International Beer Festival returns.
Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival goes online due to Covid
This year’s Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival will cancel the physical exhibition part and take the whole event online, Hong Kong Tourism Board has announced.
Dine-in ban could cost Hong Kong restaurants HK$3 billion
Hong Kong’s worst coronavirus resurgence could cost the city’s dining sector as much as HK$3 billion (US$387 million) in the month of July, as dining-in at restaurants is banned till the end of this month.
Hong Kong bans restaurant dine-in
Hong Kong government has announced sweeping rollbacks on social distancing rules to fight alarming third wave, including banning dine-in at restaurants and closure of bars.