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Recent research shows the value of fine wine investment has outperformed luxury Hermès handbags and Rolex watches during the pandemic. Auction house Sotheby’s record-breaking year in wine and spirits sale in Asia affirms the trend.
ProMEX, a Hong Kong-based online platform to trade physical commodities, has launched its trading platform last week, with its first trading commodity being China’s most famous national liquor, Moutai.
ASC Fine Wines, China’s leading fine wine importer and distributor, has added Chateau de la Font du Loup, the artisan wine producer of Chateauneuf du Pape, to its portfolio, expanding its fine wine range for mainland China and Hong Kong markets.
The owner of the popular Brut! restaurant and wine bar in Hong Kong has teamed up with three like-minded women to deliver sustainable and boutique wines to wine lovers through their newly-opened retail and e-commerce sustainable wine store, CRUSHED, in Sai Ying Pun.
Champagne Bollinger has produced a limited edition Champagne that brings together three icons: Bollinger’s signature Special Cuvée, the Aston Martin DB5 and the legendary British secret agent, James Bond.
ASC Fine Wines, China’s leading fine wine importer and distributor, has become the exclusive importer and distributor of Tuscany’s organic wine pioneer Querciabella for the mainland China and Hong Kong markets.
Amid travel restrictions and quarantine measures, this year’s ProWine Hong Kong @ HOFEX on September 7-9 has concluded successfully when many physical wine fairs were cancelled around the world.
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.
A 15-liter bottle of Bordeaux first growth Château Mouton Rothschild – known otherwise as the “Nebuchadnezzar” – from the legendary vintage of 2000 was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong for more than one million Hong Kong dollars to an Asian collector.
Sommelier Wallace Lo has joined Hong Kong-based wine consulting company, Somm’s Philosophy, as co-founder, bringing his over 10 years of sommelier experiences to the company.