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There is no wine quite like Champagne. Adored by people as diverse as Napoleon and Marilyn Monroe, the “sauté-bouchon” (literally jumping cork), as it was once called, has been...
Until quite recently the international perception of Portuguese wines was that, port excepted, fundamentally they weren’t serious.
The best known were white Vinho Verde, a refreshing,...
I sometimes think that this modern world with its instant communication and gratification is not really suited to the fine, slow pleasure that happens when sampling a great malt and then I remember...
Holdvölgy, Hungarian for Valley of the Moon, has been an absolutely thrilling discovery for me. The likes of Bordeaux, Burgundy and Barolo might be the most popular areas of our portfolio but...
The legendary Australian wine critic James Halliday once said that Dean Hewitson makes "wines with flair" and obviously there is a reflection of Dean himself mirrored in each and every...
In 1995, the legendary New World wine pioneer Robert Mondavi teamed up with
Eduardo Chadwick, owner of Chile’s venerable Viña Errázuriz, to create Chile's first
international...
Italian wine is not as well understood in Hong Kong as it should or could be, according to Berry Brothers & Rudd Hong Kong Managing Director Nicholas Pegna.
BBR wants to help change that, and is...
The fall in the prices of top Bordeaux wines has been welcome news to Hong Kong’s drinkers, if not investors. Even now, though, prices of first-growth claret are still in the region of HK$4,...
When I was back in Scotland over the festivities, I had to book a hotel to stay in for the wedding of two young friends, Dave and Lisa-Jayne, who had fixed the location for this Presbyterian party...
When Hong Kong’s wine import tax was reduced to zero in 2008, the theoretical justification was that it would establish the city as “Asia’s wine hub”.
It was never clearly...