Back to school in Barossa: Wine Australia offers all-expenses paid visits
Wine Australia is offering a dozen “all-expenses paid positions” for a five-day course called the Landmark Australia Tutorial to be held next June in the …
Month: October 2008
Tasting time: New Zealand, Sequoia, Mundo Vino
By Jim Boyce Beijing will see a good crop of wine events over the next few days, with everything from the return of the Friday …
Are you experienced? Hilton’s massive annual wine event
By Jim Boyce Two years ago, I lost my mobile phone. Last year, I accidentally broke a bottle of Shiraz on a marble staircase. This …
Grape Press: Inaugural Penfolds China Sommelier Competition held
The inaugural Penfolds China Sommelier Competition held in Shanghai saw Xinjiang native Lu Yang take top honors, which includes a trip to the 2009 Penfolds …
Wine Word: Zeon Chow, Rutherford Bench & Napa Reserve
By Jim Boyce Last month, Shanghai-based Rutherford Bench celebrated its first year of business. I talked to deputy general manager Zeon Chow about the rationale …
Weekly wine events: From post to page
My weekly listing of Beijing wine events poses a couple of problems. First, it sometimes gets buried quickly beneath new posts. Second, I get event …
Friday food fight: Hairy crabs
Let’s take the spice level way down this week and claw away at a food that fits the season: hairy crabs. Writes Shanghai Daily: “For …
Tasting time Beijing: St. Supery, South Africa, Mundo Vino, and more
By Jim Boyce After a light summer of wine events, Beijing’s distributors are back in force with a slew of them. Palette Wines will get …
Grape press: Ch’ng creates translation system for chateaus
Decanter reports that Singapore-based wine publisher, writer, and consultant Ch’ng Poh Tiong has created a new system of “phonetic translation“ that covers the names of …
Corked wine in China: The fault with no name
By Frankie Zhao – The thing with corked wine in that Chinese consumers often don’t know it when they taste it. I have attended big …