The Bordeaux-based Chinese critic Alexandre Ma is challenging old hierarchies, questioning en primeur and bringing Eastern sensory memory into the conversation. Read More
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In this exclusive interview, Edward Ragg MW shares his thoughts on what’s next for China’s wine industry and outlines his future plans following Wine Advocate’s decision to pause Chinese coverage. Read More
Jancis Robinson MW OBE has been named the recipient of the 2024 Institute of Masters of Wine (IMW) Lifetime Achievement Award for her oustanding contribution to the world of wine spanning over five decades. Read More
Lisa Perotti-Brown can not continue to dance in the shadows. If she has evidence, she must come out into the open and name names. Read More
Lin Liu MW has set herself out and wows to be an independent voice to guide Chinese wine consumers. Will she be the next Robert Parker for China? Read More
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate has released the first edition of top 10 fine wines in China and awarded for the first time a high score of 95 to a Chinese wine. Read More
Twenty four wineries have been awarded Wine Advocate’s newly launched Green Emblem to recognize “the most extraordinary cases of sustainable efforts" in wine industry, the wine publication has announced. Read More
Australia's most respected wine critic James Halliday has picked an heir apparent, Tyson Stelzer. Read More
China has introduced a homegrown wine rating system that has now being adopted by the country’s leading e-commerce giant JD.com for its more than 300 million online consumers, posing as an alternative to rival established international wine rating systems used by wine critics such as Jancis Robinson or James Suckling. Read More
Acclaimed Australian wine critic, James Halliday, is putting his personal collection of 250 bottles of the rarefied Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) up for sale, which will make the online auction "the biggest of its kind in Australian history", according to auction house Langton's. Read More