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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.
Ningxia, China’s premier wine region in northwestern China, has announced the latest additions to its winery classification system, expanding its second growths but with top tier still conspicuously void of any names.
From “Nebbiolo of the South” to age-worthy Fiano, southern Italy’s Campania and Basilicata have more to offer than ancient ruins of mythical Pompeii and cerulean blue waters in Capri.
The Italian Wine Crypto Bank (IWCB), the first and only global wine bank based on blockchain and cryptocurrencies, has launched what it calls “the first cryptocurrency in the world entirely guaranteed by wine” starting from September 21.
First planted in 1999, Silver Heights is one of Ningxia’s earlier vineyards. The vines are 1,200 metres above sea level on the eastern slopes of Helan Mountain.
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.
Here are China’s top 10 wine exporting countries in the first half of 2021.
From Goldman Sachs CEO, Samsung chairman to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, we rounded up here their favorite wines.
Japan’s import volume went down but value grew in the first half of 2021. Meanwhile, France has overtaken Chile in both volume and value.