China’s wine merchants are seeing a paradox this Mid-Autumn Festival: customers are buying better wines without necessarily spending more. Falling prices are bringing prestigious labels within reach, but squeezing the margins of the businesses selling them. Read More
Mid-autumn Festival
Authorities seized 112 bottles and thousands of mooncakes near the Chinese border in an unusual case involving Chinese-made wine. Read More
Years of discounting and tepid En Primeur campaign have discouraged importers from buying Bordeaux. Now, with the Mid-Autumn gifting season under way, merchants are struggling to find the 2023 Carruades de Lafite. Read More
Australian wine giant Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has cut its earnings forecast for its flagship brand Penfolds for the first time this year, citing a slowdown in China as the biggest drag on growth. Read More
Set for Sept. 29 this year, the Mid Autumn Festival typically drives significant wine demand through gifts and banquets. However, importers across China’s major wine-consuming regions who talked to us are reporting a more subdued market, even though some categories are defying the broader downturn. Read More
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival has a delicious boozy twist. Conrad Hong Kong has collaborated with Hong Kong's homegrown distillery Two Moons to launch its first-ever gin mooncake gift box set ahead of the traditional moon gazing festival. Read More
Whether it's a dish steeped in Mid-Autumn festival tradition or holiday must-have mooncakes, Ronald Khoo picks out four classic pairings with wine. Read More
If, like us, you want to venture out of the comfort zone and reach for a more satisfying bottle of wine, a white, a red or little bit of both, here is your guide for a boozy Mid-Autumn Festival. Read More